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Big Data Pays Off Big
we can streamline the sourcing process and mitigate costs by letting intelligent systems manage tasks automatically,” Cameron Adams explains.
Analyzes Data to Make Critical Manufacturing and Supply Decisions
Laser Precision has aptly dubbed this process Synchronized Sourcing, and describes it as a comprehensive ecosystem that hardcodes into the ven- dor’s data infrastructure all elements of supply and coordination to ensure a successful outcome. What does that mean? In practice, the system auto- matically and continually monitors and synchronizes the value stream based on customer-demand require- ments. All elements of supply are auto- matically and continually monitored, including available machine capacity, labor capacity, material requirements, material yield, quality expectations, packaging requirements and freight management. Customer-demand
schedules are updated electronically, and demand satisfaction is accom- plished through a complex algorithm that schedules and manages the entire value stream without human inter- vention—the platform requires no schedulers, no expediters and no material planners, as intelligent sys- tems perform these functions auto- matically. As many as 5000 electronic order changes —the company has received this many changes in a single day, according to Adams—can be processed, and production schedules modified to meet the new require- ments in less than 30 min., without human intervention.
With Synchronized Sourcing, all aspects of demand are planned, coor- dinated and synchronized: Raw mate- rial scheduled, requirements deployed to sub-vendors, capacity analysis con- ducted, work orders prioritized and scheduled, machinery programmed and control plans electronically deployed. At Laser Precision, factory
schedules are updated and repriori- tized every 90 sec. while production capacity is electronically monitored in real time. Constraints, conflicts and collaborative elements route immedi- ately to management through a series of electronic control systems that alert personnel to exceptions in the manu- facturing process.
“Every day we receive schedule changes from customers,” explains Adams, “and our system imports those changes and then reschedules and reprioritizes the facility within 30 min. Other companies may have entire staffs to handle this full-time.
“If a change comes through and vio- lates any of the series of business rules we have developed within the platform,” says Adams, “the change discrepancy pops up on an exceptions dashboard and we’re able deal with it that way. With the synchronization platform we are able to automate the scheduling and manufacturing process. It has definitely worked out well. PPM, on-time delivery
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