Sage optimises lean-manufacturing

Sage's software customisation allows businesses to get the most out of lean manufacturing, something many companies are not doing.

The reasons for this include a lack of clearly defined goals and communication of the vision throughout the organisation, as well as a lack of understanding about what lean manufacturing actually is.

Sage can work with companies to find out: what they should measure; if they are delivering what the customer wants, on time and free of defects; if they are responding immediately to problems and how effectively these are resolved; and methods of increasing value through waste reduction.

Each of these questions poses an information challenge to businesses.

Today's business-management software packages have a wealth of information-management tools, including traditional report writers, interactive workspaces and portals, graphical trending, RSS feeds and alerting systems.

With timely, accurate and well-presented information, teams can more effectively address the issues in their departments.

These will typically include: overproduction, resulting from sub-optimal rules for batch sizes, aggregation, EOQ policies and re-order levels; and excessive lead times caused by transit between operations, long set-up times and waiting times caused by unbalanced work loads.

Sage can provide the exact system a company needs.

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