Digital Kanban Offers Global Competitive Advantage in the Supply Chain

May 24, 2007 - PRLog -- Global competition continues to pressure North American manufacturers to operate more efficiently: produce more with less, at a high quality, delivered on time and value priced. One of the keys to successfully competing in today’s global arena is to focus on efficient management and optimization of the supply chain. Automated demand driven supply chain solutions provide significant benefits in managing production expense and optimizing profit margins in order to survive in the global market. In today’s global marketplace the competitive winners are those companies which can reliably and cost effectively supply their lines in a timely and continuous manner. Factory automation enables “Repeatability”, “Quality” and “Cost Management.” Digital Kanban solutions provide supply chains with real-time visibility and management capabilities to assist in enabling “winning and sustaining market presence”.     According to Datacraft Solutions’ CEO Stephen Parker, “The new kanban calculation functionality, “Daily Demand Import Interface” (DDII), allows for maximum competitiveness in a global supply chain.”  Specific benefits include:

•   Fewer human touch points reduce errors and eliminates difficult to manage paper trails.
•   Resources are freed-up to focus on strategic buying opportunities versus costly tactical “order expediting” issues.
•   Creates predictable supply chain arrival rates and general material flow. This translates to consistent production planning, cycle schedules and on-time customer deliveries.  
•   Reduces on-hand inventory and creates velocity in the quantity of “turns”.        
•   Visibility, reporting and notification capabilities provide essential time sensitive data that allows proactive management of potential issues instead of reactive management of actual issues.  
•   Accurate information results in accountability and provides opportunity for continuous improvement.  


Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) delivers a revolutionary digital kanban process of automation solutions to lean manufacturers through a secure Internet gateway, eliminating the need to install and maintain a complex IT infrastructure. The company has experienced significant growth in the past twelve months by eliminating complicated, expensive, time-intensive software implementations as well as extensive training regiments and the need for internal support. The Datacraft Solutions' demand driven supply chain digital kanban lean system allows customers access and fully utilize powerful lean benefits immediately for a low, predictable monthly fee. Services are scalable so manufacturers can design an appropriate digital kanban solution.


Datacraft Solutions
www.datacraftsolutions.com
Jerry Bryant
Marketing Manager
jbryant@datacraftsolutions.net
800-819-5326

Website: www.datacraftsolutions.com