Metals Manufacturers
Volatile prices in raw materials. Fierce competition. Increasing demands from customers. And globalization. These are just a few of the pressures faced by manufacturers in the metals industry. Whether you provide bar, sheet, beams or rolled product, your survival depends on finding new and innovative ways to plan, source, and make products. You must increase supply chain visibility and collaboration. And, you must protect your margins in the face of increasing transportation costs. You need FlexNet®.
FlexNet from Apriso gives you an end-to-end solution, integrating manufacturing and your ERP system. Use it to:
- Accelerate your ERP roll out to your plants
- Increase supply chain visibility and collaboration
- Synchronize materials and production
- Reduce inventory to liberate working capital
- Increase OEE and improve asset utilization
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Reduce total cost-of-ownership
- Model and share best practices across the enterprise
FlexNet Puts the Pedal to the Metal
Use FlexNet to increase throughput with directed manufacturing and synchronized material management. FlexNet integrates with your ERP and planning systems to align execution with delivery planning. Further, it provides visibility along your supply chain and shares real-time KPIs and business intelligence from any production facility to any other around the world. FlexNet integrates quality with production to track good production, rework and scrap and supports all your processes such as rolling, extruding, annealing and cooling. It’s powerful genealogy capability traces tooling along with process, machine, time and operators for each process in a unit’s history.
Optimize performance across all aspects of your extended value chain, including your people, materials, machines and processes, as well as those of your suppliers and customers with FlexNet’s global performance dashboards. Receive alerts for noncompliant events or delayed deliveries. With FlexNet’s business process authoring platform and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you’re empowered to respond quickly to strategy shifts, changing market conditions and unexpected events.
Metals Manufacturers Choose Apriso
Since 1992, Apriso has powered operations for hundreds of manufacturers around the world. Leading metals manufacturers like Novelis, Nucor, and Ugitech, rely on FlexNet for adaptive manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, and regulatory compliance, among other key factors.
Contact us for more information on specific FlexNet applications for the metals products industry.
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