FlexNet Warehouse Management for Manufacturers Solution
Synchronize warehouse operations with production to improve operations performance
Building upon a long history of designing and implementing manufacturing operations management solutions, the Apriso FlexNet Warehouse Management System (WMS) provides a truly unique perspective as an innovative product for warehouse management. Unlike other WMS vendors, which typically offer stand-alone applications designed to manage an individual warehouse or accelerate throughput within a distribution center, Apriso has taken a different approach. By assembling components from the Apriso FlexNet Operations Execution System, FlexNet Warehouse Management for Manufacturers delivers an innovative warehouse management, inventory tracking and logistics management solution, integrating business processes spanning production, warehouse and quality operations. This innovative solution provides 24x7 dock-to-dock tracking, visibility and control to synchronize operations and improve quality throughout your entire global enterprise.
Expand Lean and other Continuous Improvement Initiatives
Applying Lean practices to production processes is now a widespread practice, adopted by most of the world’s largest manufacturers. The next frontier is to streamline operations processes that are adjacent or complementary to production, such as in the warehouse. In order to accomplish an expansion of Lean into the warehouse, it is necessary to have a solution that tracks performance, enables process improvement and then automatically enforces those improvements in order to sustain the higher performance over time.
FlexNet WMS for Manufacturers supports Lean by:
- Synchronizing raw materials, production, and finished goods, with Just In Time (JIT), Just In Sequence (JIS) and Kanban techniques
- Measuring performance not only in the warehouse but across other departments
- Enforcing process improvements through Business Process Management (BPM), so people don’t fall back on bad habits
These three attributes reduce inventory and work-in-process (WIP) buffers, improve cycle time and transition manufacturing operations to become more demand-driven by responding to market, competitive and customer demand changes quickly and efficiently, all the way to raw materials and suppliers.
Improve Quality
Apriso’s Warehouse Management for Manufacturers Solution enables quality improvement through integrated inspection, smart sampling and advanced “dock-to-dock” traceability and genealogy. The result is a detailed record from finished goods to production to raw materials to suppliers, interlocking people, process, material and equipment. This rich traceability and genealogy data enables highly detailed root-cause analysis, including what sampling was performed, what quality tests were done and who decided to accept the part as good, helping to diagnose potential quality issues, which can then be followed up with a containment process, so that bad materials are never used, and suspect finished goods are never shipped to customers.
Scores of manufacturers around the world have already integrated their manufacturing and warehouse operations with FlexNet Warehouse, and have proven the wisdom of FlexNet Warehouse Management for Manufacturers – a WMS designed especially for global manufacturers. Learn more about the FlexNet Warehouse product, and how it is an ideal foundation to build this comprehensive solution.
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