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News Release from: 3M Supply Chain Solutions | Subject: Supply chain software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2007
Lean initiatives for the supply chain
Achieving successful supply chain-wide lean initiatives in the automotive industry by Hugh Murphy, business development manager, 3M Supply Chain Solutions
Today's automotive supply chains are extremely complex and diverse often resulting in high management costs, lack of process visibility and inventory control, and variable service performance Only those organisations able to adapt quickly and cost-effectively to the constantly changing environment will survive
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Adherence to industry regulations for product quality is critical to help ensure stringent requirements and deadlines are met.
An organisation's ability to achieve a lean environment in which they have visibility of and control over these details is where competitive advantage often resides.
Adaptable supply chain execution platforms, such as HighJump Software by 3M Supply Chain Solutions, support the supply chain-wide efficiency and cost-reduction efforts of major aerospace and automotive companies with a full suite of solutions.
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InBev has chosen the HighJump Supply Chain Advantage suite for its worldwide warehouse operations.
Warehouse management system for fast growers
The warehouse management system (WMS) from 3m, HighJump Warehouse Advantage, is now available as a 'fast track' product for fast-growing organisations to achieve operating efficiencies.
HighJump customers include Bridgestone Firestone, Gulfstream, NFL, The Nordam Group, Pirelli and Honeywell.
The HighJump Supply Chain Advantage suite supports lean manufacturing initiatives by including inventory management capabilities within manufacturing, initiating supplier re-orders based on demand signals, and helping organisations comply with industry requirements for quality, product tracking, safety and recall management.
Items in the aerospace and automotive industries may cost several hundred thousand pounds.
Using HighJump, organisations can be confident in their ability to effectively control critical activities relating to these products.
Key functionality required for coordinating a multi-faceted supply chain:.
* Recall management - streamlines recalls by bringing automation, discipline and repeatability to the process.
* Supply chain-wide inventory management - enables aggregated inventory visibility to provide all users with a current and future view into enterprise and facility inventory position.
* Integrated RFID - supports a wide range of uses for RFID across the supply chain, including asset/container tracking, trailer tracking, manufacturing and warehousing.
* Quality assurance and inspection - for verification, inspection and certification of products and processes.
* Electronic kanban service - for controlled inventory on a just in time (JIT) basis, only releasing materials into production as the customer demands them.
* Transportation planning - simplifies the complex and tedious daily routing task, utilising point-and-click and drag-and-drop simplicity for users to manoeuvre easily within the application.
* Load sequencing for JIT delivery - for efficient load drop offs and ORM-D type shipments.
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