Introducing Apriso FlexNet –
Adapting at the Speed of Business

With constantly changing business priorities, globalization, punishing product schedules and ever increasing compliance requirements, manufacturers are implementing automated business processes as a first step to address production, supply chain and quality assurance challenges.

Achieving excellence and competitive advantage requires much more.

Manufacturing Execution Systems play an important role in collecting, managing and distributing production data, but are just a starting point. Apriso FlexNet® is a software-based platform and operations suite that provides global visibility, adaptability and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network.

Manufacturing operations management across the enterprise
FlexNet is an Operations Execution System that enables you to increase production while reducing inventory, enhancing customer satisfaction while improving return on assets.

At Apriso, our leadership experience working with global manufacturers has enabled us to build feature-rich, adaptable manufacturing software applications. Apriso FlexNet provides much more and goes beyond MES. It is an enterprise adaptive system for managing production, quality, warehouse and maintenance operations – spread across multiple locations – while maintaining tight linkage to enterprise applications, including ERP and PLM.

Global management, enterprise-wide functionality
FlexNet has been optimized to excel when your operations are spread across multiple locations; within your production environment or across your supply chain network. With globalization a large part of today’s manufacturing vernacular, it makes sense to invest in a manufacturing execution system (MES) that is not challenged by data synchronization across applications and has mastered the process for establishing and distributing manufacturing best practices.

The growing importance of quality within the manufacturing environment – both from a supplier and producer perspective – has elevated this process to a strategic level.

The Apriso FlexNet solution includes each of the following software applications which may be purchased individually or as a collective whole, depending upon your unique operations execution and management needs:

• Manufacturing Execution System, or MES
• Warehouse Management System, or WMS
• Quality Execution System, or QES
• Quality Management System, or QMS
• Computerized Maintenance Management System, or CMMS
• Supply Chain Visibility, or SCV

Application integration across operations, down to the shop floor
FlexNet empowers you to seamlessly integrate with ERP, PLM and other enterprise applications to manage, control and quickly adapt to the complexities of your business. FlexNet’s dynamic, web-based suite of applications synchronize manufacturing and supply chain operations in real time, providing a conduit for continuous improvement of process and product design quality. 

• Track and control all elements of supply chain operations — both within your company and across your global supply chain
• Optimize production with continuous improvement initiatives such as Lean and Six Sigma, effectively driving out the 7 wastes of Lean
• Execute a Quality Management System (QMS) that spans production, warehousing, maintenance and the supply chain, capable of evaluating and improving business processes
• Strive to attain a zero-inventory production model, implementing Just-in-time and Just-in-sequence scheduling to improve synchronization of operations
• Ensure manufacturing and warehousing can work independently or as a cohesive supply network – even if your business systems (ERP, PLM, etc.) become temporarily unavailable

FlexNet Differentiators:

• Manage all manufacturing operations -- production, quality and logistics
• Plug & play applications are built on a Unified Data Model (UDM) to simplify master data management challenges
• Strategic platform for IT consolidation and simplification
• Easily integrate enterprise applications with built in business process authoring and management (BPM) capabilities
• Designed to complement an ERP deployment, performing as much or as little operations execution as you need, based on your unique configuration and production requirements
• Flexible integration across operations and down to the machine layer through use of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)