Apriso Customers Are Realizing Significant Return on Their Manufacturing Operations AssetsReturn on Assets is a key metric shareholders' use to assess a company's use of capital, and is perhaps the most effective metric to measure how well operations are performing. Without the ability to control ROA on a granular level, down to the plant-floor, consistent delivery of profit is virtually impossible. Strategy vs. ExecutionThe challenge is clear: how to minimize the cost of assets (plant equipment and inventory) while still maintaining good customer fulfillment rates. Today's manufacturing and product supply operations are complex and multifaceted. Striving to balance demand variability and operational volatility can quickly create excess inventory buffers, plant asset imbalances, and unsatisfied customers. These challenges place your business at risk. Even a perfect strategy is useless if you can't synchronize operations at the plant floor level and throughout your supply operations and distribution channel with today's business plan ― in real-time. What is required is to coordinate capacity, materials with customer demand. To achieve this balance, Apriso provides manufacturers real-time visibility into and control of their manufacturing operations to quickly synchronize operations to changing conditions to successfully deliver against customer demand. Maximize your Return on Assets (ROA) by optimizing the performance of your operational teams and 3rd party supply chain partners across your operations. Synchronize your production, quality, warehousing, maintenance and labor operations as a collaborative whole in order to improve Return on Assets.
Revenue Enhancement: Time to Market for Higher Value ProductA global medical device manufacturer has teamed with Apriso to improve production performance and reduce inventory by 60%. This in turn freed 96,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing floor space to be used for production of incremental, higher value, product lines. Apriso helped this customer increase revenues without further capital improvements, to increase overall ROA. Learn more about Achieving Excellence in Manufacturing Operations Expense Reduction: Enhanced Continuous ImprovementApriso customers use FlexNet® Quality to best manage quality assurance initiatives across operations as an integrated solution to lower the total cost of quality and improve ROA. One client achieved $3.7 million of cost reduction within their quality program at a single aerospace and defense facility; an automotive supplier has reduced product quality costs by over $40 million. Learn more about Apriso Quality Management functionality Expense Reduction: Better Inventory ManagementAnother area of cost reduction where Apriso has improved ROA is in improving inventory management systems by more efficiently managing inventory-from raw material orders to on-hand inventory - helping to eliminate physical inventory among partners and suppliers. Examples of improved capital efficiency through better inventory management techniques include one Apriso customer who reduced raw and semi-finished inventory at one plant by over 60%; another recognized $450,000 savings per year on a single product line. Learn more about the Apriso Manufacturing Operations Management Platform Learn more about the Apriso Warehouse Management functionality Learn more about the Apriso Inventory Management functionality Learn more about Material Synchronization To find out more about how Apriso can help improve your bottom line contact us. |
