We have all seen the debate on how do we go from todays
manufacturing to an effective operational landscape, across the full valued
supply chain. The increased urgency of this debate has become recent discussions, I have with different companies;
people are trying understand how they going stay competitive delivering the
correct products, to the correct markets, locations, in the correct time, at
the correct price and margin. All this with increasing costs in labor, energy,
transport and regulation compliance.
The common thread across the discussions was:
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Real time transparency across all sites, and “cogs”
in the supply chain.
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Shift from “traditional reporting” to
“actionable decisions”
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Shift from operators to “Operational Teams” that
align operations, planning and expertise
·
Shift from Siloed process on a plant or across
plants to optimized and aligned.
·
Shift from experience in people to experience in
the system
·
Alignment and consistency across the operational
decisions and action for a product no matter location.
Providing the foundation for optimizing and continuous
improvement, not just of assets but process, assets, product production, and
workforce.
