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Follow on Google News | New White Paper Confirms Modern Operational Platform Helps Manufacturers Gain Competitive AdvantageAdaptive, efficient manufacturing processes are critical to the success of a manufacturing enterprise in today's global marketplace
By: Apriso Corporation Based on a recent survey of 445 manufacturers, two emerging trends are driving the need for more globally integrated manufacturing operations: (1) increasing mass configuration, and (2) growing reliance on dynamic, multi-plant production networks. IDC Manufacturing Insights suggests better “global multi-enterprise orchestration” “Firms have evolved from being "international," “Customer fulfillment in globally integrated organizations depends on supply chain agility and visibility, which in turn depends on effective and efficient manufacturing operations processes that can be easily changed as the need arises,” explained Tom Comstock, executive vice president at Apriso. “Supply chain process improvement won't work if manufacturing capabilities don't keep pace — pointing to the need for a flexible solution for manufacturing operations management, which Apriso customers are able to leverage.” Typical manufacturing enterprises have an extremely diversified, disparate and disconnected IT application landscape on their plant floor, a situation manufacturers now recognize as counterproductive when striving to achieve globally integrated operations. These solutions do a fine job of managing local plant operations, but very often they are not interconnected with each other and are loosely integrated with corporate ERP and other business applications. While the current deployment models for ERP may have been sufficient for the back-office needs of the "international" • Having a real-time visibility, intelligence and decision-making environment. These capabilities require non-transactional systems in addition to ERP's system of records in order to offer insights into operations management. • Achieving global multi-enterprise orchestration. This goes beyond the nature of a traditional ERP that is generally designed to serve a single enterprise. IDC Manufacturing Insights suggests the industry needs a new complementary platform to ERP. “We believe a modern ‘operational platform’ is needed … a separate enterprise wide operational platform that is as important as the corporate ERP platform. Supporting a customer fulfillment driven approach to operations management in globally integrated organizations, the new platform dictates an evolution and elevation of the existing applications deployed to support operational processes,” stated Manenti. To download the full IDC Manufacturing Insights White Paper sponsored by Apriso Corporation, click here: http://www.apriso.com/ # # # Apriso Corporation is a manufacturing software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events. End
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