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Manufacturing Value chain

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Quality Management

How does it all come together?

Business Unit

Business Unit

Incorporate Policies and Procedures

-accurately interpret policies and procedures

Incorporate Policies and Procedures

- Model the policies and procedures

- Establishment of objectives

Strategic Planning

Developing strategies to achieve set outcomes

Developing strategies to achieve set outcomes

- Create new marketing strategies

- Analyzing market trends

- identifying new business opportunities

-create strategies for the business unit’s promotional activities

- Strategy revision (if the goals are not met)

Offices

Where can people find you?

R & D

Connect

with Clients and Partners

Engineering

In Bound Logistics

In Bound Logistics

Material Receiving

Material Receiving

Identification/ Track & Trace

Identification

Solutions

Solutions

Automatic identification helps to identify, verify, record, communicate and store information on discrete, packaged or containerized items and retrieval process

Technologies

The most common technologies used to identify and capture data are :

  • Barcode Handheld and fixed-position scanners and imagers
  • Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers
  • voice recognition Devices
  • weighing and cubing devices

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Transparency in identification or traceability of materials (better visibility)

2. Inspection for any damages or shortages

3. Human error -manual data entry

4. Addressing Warranty management

5. Regulatory compliant

6. Rising Freight costs and labor costs

7. Lack of control

Case Study

Logistics improves efficiency with RFID Tags

Logistics Improves Efficiency with RFID Tags

RFID is the term used for the technology to automatically identify and locate objects using radio waves.Automated tracking of components via RFID tags simplifies logistics and enables real-time management of inventory flow and quality

Overview

Lack of Visibility, lack of Control , rising freight costs and labor costs pose a major challenge in logistics

Challenges

Solutions

RFID helps reduce and eliminate waste in a variety of functional areas, such as:

Manufacturing. RFID improves accuracy, reduces labor and associated costs, and provides improved visibility as a result of real-time tracking of materials (especially raw and work-in-process inventory to support manufacturing).

Distribution. RFID boosts efficiency, visibility, and accuracy in selection and distribution processes, and reduces distribution costs. It also has significant impact on crossdock warehouses, where products from a supplier or manufacturing plant are distributed directly to a customer or retail chain with minimal to no handling or storage time in a crossdocking facility.

Retail. RFID aids in cycle counting and triggering replenishment from the store's back end to the front end, especially on expensive items and simultaneous "one shot" scanning of goods at checkout.

Impacts & benefits

Transparency in traceability and tracking of assets and materials, error reduction, Reduced labor cost. Integration With Other Systems

New GHS Regulations Require New Identification Concepts

GHS Requirements and New Identification process

Overview

With the GHS regulations (GHS - Globally Harmonized System) the United Nations wanted to minimise the risks to human health and the environment arising from production, transport and the use of hazardous substances.

Challenges

Changeover to the new GHS regulations. Ex- Standardised danger symbols and texts have to be used for the identification of chemicals around the world.

Solutions

A suitable printing system needs to be implemented to develop customised identification solutions, customized to customer's requirements.

The development team at S+P Samson have five Lexmark laser printers -3 located in production and 2 in shipping. Using the above system and their innovative ideas, label with very special features were introduced:

• Black underneath to make them opaque when they are applied on top of other labels

• Tear-off portions for customer-specific information

Benefits and Impacts

  • In-time compliance with GHS regulations (GHS - Globally Harmonized System)
  • Improved Visibility in identification of hazardous materials

KPI impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Cost of Receiving per receiving line

Productivity - Volume received per man-hour

Utilization - Receiving Dock door utilization %

Quality - Accurate receipts %

Cycle Time - Time taken to process a receipt.

Solution Providers

Impinj

Case Studies

POLARIS saves thousands with automated manufacturing solution

Polaris saves thousands with automated manufacturing solutions

Vehicle manufacturer Polaris optimized production through a RAIN RFID solution that saved them more than $200,000 per year.

Overview

Challenges

Errors due to Manual checks , risk of missed scans due to manual scanning of VIN, accuracy of assembly materials moving through the production line and inventory management equipment costs, labor costs.

Solutions

Polaris turned to a RAIN RFID solution to address the above challenges. Developed by Impinj and Atlas RFID, the RAIN RFID solution supports Polaris' sophisticated manufacturing line by accurately identifying AGVs as they move parts through production. This allows Polaris to ensure key manufacturing processes are complete. Here’s how it works:

  • RAIN RFID tags featuring Impinj Monza 4QT endpoint ICs are affixed to AGVs, which carry unique vehicle frames as they move through each stage of the assembly line.
  • Up to five Impinj R420 readers are affixed at key points in the assembly line, automatically scanning each tag on the AGV associated to a vehicle frame VIN to ensure the processes at those stations were completed successfully.
  • Production workers are notified at the end of the assembly line if a production step was missed.

Benefits and Impacts

  • Automated tracking increases production accuracy
  • Real-time data helps Polaris right-size labor costs and reduce manual tasks
  • RAIN RFID provides efficient, cost-effective solution

Volvo enables smart manufacturing with RAIN RFID enabled solution

Smart Manufacturing using Rain RFID enabled solution

Volvo Simplifies Automotive Tracking Solution with RAIN RFID.

Overview

Challenges

With a system that mixed and matched multiple RFID tag types with barcodes, challenges faced are - difficulty maintaining a streamlined, cost-effective tracking system and open to errors.

Solutions

In order to uniquely and accurately identify vehicles, Volvo turned to a simplified RAIN RFID solution from Confidex and Impinj to enable asset tracking from the paint shop to the point of final assembly. Here’s how it works:

  • The Confidex Corona™ RAIN RFID tag, featuring the Impinj Monza R6 tag chip, is mounted on the chassis of the car at the start of the manufacturing process
  • As the car moves through production, the tagged car is read by fixed readers located at transition points associated with assembly stations
  • Collected data helps management determine where they can optimize operations and ensure the correct car is undergoing the correct process at the right time

Benefits and Impacts

  • One Tag for all Manufacturing Process
  • Improved tag performance in difficult read environments
  • Ensured order accuracy and reduced errors

Bosch

IIC - Track and Trace Testbed

Manage smart, hand-held tools in manufacturing, maintenance, and industrial environments

Overview

Challenges

Factory systems can detect - within a meter - the location of a tool. Misuse of tools can result in serious accident or injury; The production of many industrial and consumer goods requires exacting work - down to the precise force used to tighten a screw.

Solutions

The Track and Trace testbed brings the Industrial Internet onto the factory floor. The goal is to manage handheld power tools in manufacturing and maintenance environments. This "management" involves efficiently tracking and tracing the usage of these tools to ensure their proper use, prevent their misuse and collect data on their usage and status.

The tools in Track and Trace will be able to determine its precise location and use and, therefore, will be able to determine the force and work needed to complete a task. In addition, if a tool recognizes that it is being misused, it will promptly power down to avoid accident or injury. Finally, over the two-year project, the testbed participants will look to fine-tune the localization of tools to 30 centimeters, and ideally down to five centimeters. Currently, the accuracy is approximately one meter - a gap large enough to allow mistakes. These features of Track and Trace will contribute to the safety and quality of the goods produced, as well as increase productivity in manufacturing.

Over the two-year project, four Industrial Internet Consortium members will be lending their expertise to the testbed. Bosch is supplying the necessary software; Cisco is taking care of the precision location identification feature; National Instruments will interconnect the power tools; and TechMahindra is responsible for the application programming.

IIC - Track and Trace Testbed

Impacts and Benefits

  • Enable "Tools as a Service" business model

  • Enhance productivity, production quality, and work safety

Reverse Logistics- - Processing returned goods

Reverse Logistics

Solutions

Solutions

Reverse Logistics is the process of moving goods from their place of use, back to their place of manufacture for re-processing, re-filling, repairs or recycling/ waste disposal.

The Traditional approach to returns involves aggregation, sorting, and consolidation and this process may take up to several weeks. However, a modern Strategic approach leverages technology and infrastructure to provide complete data visibility throughout the returns supply chain and may be completed in days. There is an obvious need to use

big data and advanced analytics technology to drive predictive analysis that supports network planning/optimization and strategic decision-making to streamline

the reverse logistics flow. With improved analysis of a supply chain’s network design for collection and drop points, the demand can therefore be closely understood

and plans for refining and optimizing flows can be achieved.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Unpredictability of returns

2. Cost to manage returns

3. Transport charges, labor for assessment and reprocessing,

including packaging and handling for reverse distribution

4. Repairs, recalls and the adding of extra parts to process these returned products

5. Products recycle

Case Study

Reverse logistics savings begin

with demand planning

A Case Study in Reverse Logistics

Reverse logistics savings begin with demand planning

Overview

Challenges

. Difficulties forecasting demand in a high-volume repair environment caused rise in inventory costs

• Inadequate planning and execution resulted in excess and obsolete inventory and poor utilization of warehouse space

• Variability of hardware and component sourcing affected production efficiency, causing

fulfillment delays and lower customer satisfaction.

Solutions

. Implemented world-class forecasting model to improve inventory management and asset utilization while reducing costs

• Utilized advanced sourcing and materials planning to speed fulfillment cycles and improve

service levels for increased customer satisfaction

• Configured a highly structured and efficient reverse logistics program to supplement demand inventory and reduce sourcing costs

Immediately improved demand forecast accuracy from 35 percent to 99 percent

• Reduced spare parts inventory levels by 52 percent or $2.3 million in the first year

• Reduced cycle time by 70 percent from 3.35 to 1.10 days

• Improved on-time, same day ship rates from 84 percent to 99 percent

• Reduced obsolescence by 75 percent

• Improved efficiencies in supply chain related processes by approximately 15 percent

Impacts & benefits

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost

1. Returns cost as a percentage of sales

2. Returns processing costs by category/channel/supplier

3. shipping costs

4. inventory levels and carrying costs

5. write-offs

Quality -

1. percentage of returns due to damage, faults, preference changes

2. Accuracy of delivery

3. PPM

Return process cycle time (days)

Solution Providers

RLG group

Case Study/ Solutions

Returns recovery solutions

Returns Recovery Solutions

Reverse logistics is an opportunity to recapture value.

Overview

Challenges

Handling returned products requires a careful balance of effort and profit.

Solutions

RLG provides highly effective remanufacturing services for products and devices, especially when combined with our intelligent sorting, grading and profitable remarketing services.

Our returns recovery services are provided either by our own facilities or within our network of trusted partners.

• End-to-end returns processing

• Minimize returns

• Maximize value recovery

• Optimize stock transfer and fulfillment capabilities

• Improved efficiencies in supply chain related processes by approximately 15 percent

• Item dispositioning

Impacts & benefits

Monitoring Time frame

Off Site emergency

Statutory & legal Requirements

Material Evaluation

Documentation

Documentation of goods received and goods returned

Solutions

Solutions

Digital documentation and visualization

  • Provide documents for relevant work stations digitally
  • Updating documents frequently
  • Adoption of digital technology in documentation (visualization softwares etc.)

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

  • Less failure potential due to accurate and precise information
  • Less time needed for generating and updating documents with digitalization
  • More time for value adding tasks

KPI Impact

Solution Providers

Warehousing

Material Handling

Implementation of automated material handling equipments

Material Handling Equipments

Solutions

Solutions

Automated material handling equipments reduces the workforce needed and provides additional flexibility.

It aids in the movement, protection , storage and control of materials and products throughout manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal.

Technologies /Equipments

  • Ergonomics safety systems
  • Overhead cranes
  • Lift trucks
  • Dock Equipment
  • Conveyors
  • Monorails and workstation cranes etc.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Shorten Delivery time

2. Overall handling costs in manufacturing, distribution and transportation (ex- labor costs)

3. Addressing Occupational health

4. Efficient and quick material traceability/ supply of products and materials at proper time (order prioritization)

5. Reduction in product damage

6. Energy consumption

7. Safety

Case Study

Augmented Reality for Material Handling

Augmented Reality in Material handling

Implementing AR solution for all the warehouse and logistics use cases - loading and unloading, receiving, Picking & Packing, cycle counting, shipping and returns.

Overview

Visualization of stocks (in inaccessible locations), space utilization due to lack of proper visibility over materials/ stocks, storage area determination, rework and errors

Challenges

AR devices that keeps workers hands-free to increase their efficiency while keeping costs low, and gives the flexibility to upskill and reskill the warehouse staff quickly with seasonal and peak demand.

Drive improvement across the operations with a scalable AR solution that is secure and can be rapidly deployed as new use cases emerge across the warehouse and supply chain operations.

Solutions

  • Gain real-time visibility of inventory locations
  • Accelerate staffing ramp up and knowledge transfer
  • Reduce rework and errors
  • Connect staff to data, systems, and equipment
  • Get quick access to remote experts
  • Resolve exceptions in real-time and create digital audit trails

Benefits and Impacts

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Handling costs

Downtime measurement

Productivity - man-hours per product

Utilization - Labor-Equipment Utilization . The percentage of labor & equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Quality - Material handling damage %

Cycle Time - Lead time

Solution Providers

Intralox

Case Studies

INTRALOX ARB SOLUTION DELIVERS “WORRY-FREE” POLYBAG AND SMALL BOX HANDLING

INTRALOX ARB SOLUTION

Overview

Systems integrator Invata Intralogistics specializes in fullscale, automated solutions for fulfillment and distribution centers. Invata was charged with providing a “worryfree” system that could handle several package types—

including polybags and small boxes—while achieving a throughput target of 25,000 packages per day

Sorting accurately at high through put rate is the major challenge

Challenges

Solutions

Invata designated Intralox® Activated Roller Belt™ (ARB™) technology as a critical part of its automated material handling system. ARB systems can handle a wide range of products within a small footprint, and are especially adept at handling polybags and small boxes without jams, pinches, or damage.

Positioned near the beginning of the line, the ARB Aligner S7000 aligns polybags and small boxes to allow for accurate placement of shipping labels. Further on, the ARB Sorter S7000—which measures 96 ft (29.3 m) in length—sorts bidirectionally to 12 exits, with an additional exit for exceptional items that need to be manually reprocessed. Packages are automatically sorted by weight, type, and delivery options; each exit corresponds to a different parcel carrier, price, and service level. Polybags are fed to one of eight gaylords via chutes; small boxes travel to extendable loading conveyors by way of a de-elevating spiral conveyor

Accurate sorting of various package types at high throughput rate in a small foot print

Benefits and Impacts

Automated sorting / picking tasks

Automated Sorting

Solutions

Solutions

To separate and route items

Sortation system merges, identifies, inducts and conveys products to specific destinations. Working in conjunction with fixed conveyors, automatic identification systems and controls, sortation system transfers items off the main conveyor lines to spur tracks.

  • Pop up roller diverters - to move an item off conveyor
  • Transorter
  • Linear belt sorter
  • Small parcel sorter

Technologies /Equipments

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Labor Costs

2. Ergonomics

3. Sortation system speed to accommodate slow and peak demand periods

4. Reduction in product damage

5. Safety

Case Study

Order Picking process in Warehouse

ORDER PICKING PROCESS IN WAREHOUSE

Overview

Throughout picking orders in warehouses, the presence of human work is highly reflected, with the main goal to reduce the process time as much as possible, that is, to the very minimum. There are several different order picking methods, and the most common ones are being developed and are significantly dependent on the type of goods, the warehouse equipment., and those that stand out are scanning and picking by voice

Overall Costs - warehouse operation costs, inventory costs and transportation costs and the travel distance ,

lack of control

Challenges

Optimization of order picking : optimization includes predefining WMS data and reorganization of dedicated storage locations directly influencing the time consuming order picking, which is presented with the proposed changes in the observed company’s warehouse layout. The evaluation of effectiveness and effectivity of a certain process, such as

order picking, should be constantly supervised in the form of analysis and chronographically measured to

be controlled and reduced.

Solutions

  • Advancd order picking methods like Voice Picking Improves picking efficiency
  • Reduce picking errors
  • Reduce rework and errors
  • Scalability
  • Increase in accuracy

Benefits and Impacts

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Handling costs

Downtime measurement

Productivity - man-hours per product

Utilization - Labor-Equipment Utilization . The percentage of labor & equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Quality - sorting error ( %)

Cycle Time - Lead time

Solution Providers

Intralox

Case Studies

Intralox DARB sorter handles challenging products

Intralox DARB Sorter Handles Challenging Products

Intralox DARB Sorter provides multi-destination sorting for difficult-to-handle product types and sizes. This 60 divert system sorts plastic totes, buckets, rolls of hose, long products, unevenly loaded boxes, and plastic-covered boxes.

Overview

Challenges

Sorting difficult- to handle products with a wide variety of package types,sizes and shapes pose a major challenge in material handling process.

Solutions

DARB Sortation System Provides Gentle Sorting of Virtually Any Product in a Small Footprint

The DARB Sorter S4500 is designed to sort, sequence, and divert products at a 90-degree angle to the belt’s direction of travel without the use of rails or other devices that touch the product. It has pneumatic activated divert zone(s) with patented Dual-Stacked Angled Roller Belt (DARB) technology.Once this zone is activated, the product moves sideways

IDEAL SOLUTION FOR:

• High-rate sorting at 90° with tight divert spacing

• Feeding multiple palletizers

• Sorting into accumulation lines (such as mixed pallet building operations)

• Carton sequencing

• Single 90° divert (reject) stations

• When changing carton orientation during high-rate sorting

Benefits and Impacts

  • The sorter enables high-rate 90-degree sorting with tight spacing and while preserving package integrity.
  • Highest throughput for 90 degree sorting in its price range
  • Smallest divert spacing
  • Increased robustness and safety

Integrated Material Handling system

Integrated Material Handling System

Solutions

Solutions

By tying all the technologies together, a properly designed system ensures complete handling process .

To ensure that all the material handling systems in a facility—whether manual, semi-automated or automated—works together as a unified, integrated material handling system provide engineering services to design and implement a complete handling process.

Typical material handling systems include:

  • Automated storage and retrieval
  • Conveyors
  • Sortation
  • Automatic identification and data capture
  • Software
  • Item order fulfillment
  • Controls
  • Racks
  • Storage

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. improve customer service

2. reduce inventory level

3. shorten delivery time

4. lower overall handling costs in manufacturing, distribution and transportation.

Case Study

Augmented Reality for Material Handling

Augmented Reality in Material handling

Implementing AR solution for all the warehouse and logistics use cases - loading and unloading, receiving, Picking & Packing, cycle counting, shipping and returns.

Overview

Visualization of stocks (in inaccessible locations), space utilization due to lack of proper visibility over materials/ stocks, storage area determination, rework and errors

Challenges

AR devices that keeps workers hands-free to increase their efficiency while keeping costs low, and gives the flexibility to upskill and reskill the warehouse staff quickly with seasonal and peak demand.

Drive improvement across the operations with a scalable AR solution that is secure and can be rapidly deployed as new use cases emerge across the warehouse and supply chain operations.

Solutions

  • Gain real-time visibility of inventory locations
  • Accelerate staffing ramp up and knowledge transfer
  • Reduce rework and errors
  • Connect staff to data, systems, and equipment
  • Get quick access to remote experts
  • Resolve exceptions in real-time and create digital audit trails

Benefits and Impacts

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Handling costs

Downtime measurement

Productivity - man-hours per product

Utilization - Labor-Equipment Utilization . The percentage of labor & equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Quality - Material handling damage %

Cycle Time - Lead time

Solution Providers

Kuecker Logistic group

Material Storage

Preservation of materials

Preservation of Materials

Solutions

Solutions

  • Monitoring of perishable materials
  • Monitoring of shelf life
  • ABC analysis
  • Identification/ Traceability
  • Stock rotations analysis
  • FIFO solutions
  • Packaging

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Customer satisfaction

2. Outdated (obsolete) stock analysis

3. Quality control improvement

4. Warranty Issuance and Control

5. Availability of Most Recent Product Iterations

6. Storage space utilization

7. Reduction in product damage

Case Study

Elevating Rack Guarding for Warehouse Pallet Racks

Elevating Rack Guarding for Warehouse Pallet Racks

Overview

In order to avoid the damages to the valuable auto part stock as well as to employees, the netting system needs to be fitted to the pallet racks to prevent the falling of the loose products on the pallet shelves , into the aisles of the warehousing floor.

The challenge was to create a safety net barrier acting as a door to protect both products as well as employees in a warehouse setting.In addition the door needs to be accessible to the driver of a fork lift from the ground/

Challenges

Combining pallet rack safety netting with a pallet stop system.The steel stops prevented pallets from being pushed off the shelf while the plastic netting ensured that loose items couldn’t fall into aisles or into flue areas between racks.

Pallet stops were off-set three inches behind shelves, giving a conventional 48-inch pallet room to

balance evenly on standard 42-inch shelves. Plastic netting was then attached to the pallet stops

creating a vertical “wall” to contain loose parts and boxes.

Solutions

Benefits and Impacts

  • Protects workstations & traffic areas from falling boxes & parts
  • Reduces inventory loss/damage by preventing
  • falls off storage racks or between back-to-back racks
  • Easy to install and clean
  • Wont’ sag or stretch

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Holding costs (This KPI measures the costs related to storing unsold inventory. This includes the cost of damaged and spoiled goods, as well as the cost of storage space, labor and insurance.)

Productivity - Inventory turn over , Gross Contribution Margin (GCM) performance

Efficiency -Return on Assets (ROA) (Net Income/ Total Assets)

Quality - Inventory Accuracy rate, rate of return

Lead Time , Average Days to Sell Inventory (DSI)

Solution Providers

Westfalia

Case Studies

FIFO Pallet Racking System

FIFO Pallet Racking System

FIFO pallet flow storage system can double or triple the capacity of a warehouse and is an ideal alternative to drive-in, static racks or storing pallets on the floor, as well as allowing for FIFO stock control. FIFO warehouse racking systems are one of the most efficient types of warehouse storage racks.

Overview

Available warehouse space, operational efficiency,potential for inventory write-offs due to expirations and Availability of Most Recent Product Iterations

Challenges

In the FIFO pallet flow system, pallets load at the top end of an inclined rack, which allows them to glide at a controlled pace to the other side of the storage rack. These pallet rack systems ensure that the face along the aisles always remains stocked, maximizing the available storage space and using available vertical space to minimize the overall footprint.

Solutions

Benefits and Impacts

  • Automates FIFO inventory control.
  • Minimizes warehousing and handling costs.
  • Maximizes warehouse capacity/cubic storage space.
  • Operates in temperatures ranging from minus-30 degrees Fahrenheit to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Standard flow rails are constructed from 4-inch-by-1-inch galvanized steel, with flow wheels mounted in a single- or double-staggered configuration.
  • Cast aluminum flow wheels are available for impact protection.
  • Centrifugal speed controllers have steel gears to maximize performance and life of mechanism.
  • No springs or mechanical adjustment required — Westfalia Technologies’ brake tire maximizes pallet engagement by compressing and taking the shape of the bottom board surface, conforming to the shape of warped or cracked bottom boards.

Better utilization of Space

Better Utilization Of Space

Solutions

Solutions

Automated storage and retrieval systems provides dense storage that maximizes floor space.

(AS/RS) integrate automated hardware and software for accurate picking and replenishment. These systems automatically locate and deliver the required inventory to a conveyor system, manual outfeed, or an ergonomic operator station.

Types

  • Unit-load AS/RS or Fixed-aisle (F/A) storage and retrieval systems
  • Mini-load AS/RS
  • Micro-load AS/RS
  • Vertical lift modules (VLMs)
  • Horizontal carousels
  • Vertical carousels

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Space utilization

2. Reduction in inventory levels

3. Reduction in labor requirements

4. product security

5. Ergonomics

6. Increased accuracy levels

7. Increased throughput capabilities

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Carrying Cost of Inventory

Storage Productivity - Volume of inventory stored per square foot

Space Utilization - Percentage of space occupied by inventory out of the total space available for storage.

Inventory Turnover

Inventory to Sales Ratio

Solution Providers

Westfalia

Case Studies

Automated Storage and Retrieval

System Increases Storage

Density 40%

Automated Storage and Retrieval System Increases Storage Density 40%

Overview

A leader in the private label bottled water industry has installed an Automated Storage and Retrieval

System (AS/RS) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) for their Douglas, Georgia plant.

They chose an AS/RS for its technological efficiency and cost benefits, after initially considering a pallet

flow system.

Challenges

Achieving high through put and efficiency . For better storage density and utilization of space,a need for better solution of warehouse management arised.

Solutions

To meet the demand for high throughput, the AS/RS includes two Storage/Retrieval Machines (S/RMs)operating in one aisle, each capable of handling two pallets at a time. Rack entry vehicles quickly and smoothly store and retrieve pallets from the racks.The four-level rack system holds over 6,500 pallet positions in 10 pallet deep storage lanes.

To handle the peak production and order selection times, Air Chain Accumulation Conveyors are at both the in-feed and discharge of the AS/RS. These low-energy use conveyors provide a buffer for smoothing peak operations, and cut the average S/RM travel distance, especially when compared to end of aisle in-feed systems.

Benefits and Impacts

  • 40% increase in storage density from Multiple Deep AS/RS
  • 30% reduction in energy costs
  • WMS manages all product movements resulting in less waste &product loss
  • Meeting increasing demand & higher throughput now and in the future

Determining Storage systems

Determining Storage Systems

Solutions

Overview

Solutions

For short- or long-term holding of materials, products and loads in a manufacturing or distribution facility

Choosing the right type of storage system depends on

  • Physical size of the items to be stored
  • Weight
  • Frequency of use

Designing the configuration of the storage system depends on

  • Items’ quantities and characteristics
  • Types of equipment that will be needed to move them to and from storage

Types of Storage Systems

Shelving

Shelving

Convenient and cost-effective, this type of storage system is comprised of more than one shelf for storage of non-palletized loads, typically hand-loaded, light loads.

  • Open Type Shelving
  • commercial Shelving
  • Two level shelving
  • Gondola or library shelving
  • Ledge type shelving
  • Mobile Shelving
  • Record shelving or archive shelving

Mezzanines or work platforms

Mezzanines or work platforms

A structure built within an existing facility that is designed to maximize clear space under and above it.Accessed by steps or integrated personnel or load lifts, a mezzanine’s construction depends on the amount of load, the clear distance it is required to span and types of activities it will support

Types

  • Free standing
  • Modular
  • Integrated

Racks

Rack Systems

Rack systems are often used for buffering, or holding, of reserved stock to ensure that enough components or products are on hand to meet anticipated demands.

Pallet Racks

Pallet racks are single or multi-level structural bulk storage systems. They support high stacking of single items or palletized loads which usually remain in the original packaging of shipping containers or boxes.

Types

  • Single deep rack
  • Drive in Rack
  • Carton flow rack or flow-through rack
  • Portable rack
  • Cantilever rack
  • Reel rack
  • Mobile rack

Compartmentalized storage

Compartmentalized storage

A variety of small-scale systems can be used—either alone or in conjunction with racks, shelving and mezzanines—for secure storage of small items.

Types

  • Bin storage
  • Cabinet storage
  • Drawer storage

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Better space utilization

2. Right-sizing to accomodate multiple sizes of products

3. Security - Lockable storage solutions keep contents safe from unauthorized access

4. Reduction in product damage

Case Studies

Elevating Rack Guarding for Warehouse Pallet Racks

Elevating Rack Guarding for Warehouse Pallet Racks

Overview

In order to avoid the damages to the valuable auto part stock as well as to employees, the netting system needs to be fitted to the pallet racks to prevent the falling of the loose products on the pallet shelves , into the aisles of the warehousing floor.

The challenge was to create a safety net barrier acting as a door to protect both products as well as employees in a warehouse setting.In addition the door needs to be accessible to the driver of a fork lift from the ground/

Challenges

Combining pallet rack safety netting with a pallet stop system.The steel stops prevented pallets from being pushed off the shelf while the plastic netting ensured that loose items couldn’t fall into aisles or into flue areas between racks.

Pallet stops were off-set three inches behind shelves, giving a conventional 48-inch pallet room to

balance evenly on standard 42-inch shelves. Plastic netting was then attached to the pallet stops

creating a vertical “wall” to contain loose parts and boxes.

Solutions

Benefits and Impacts

  • Protects workstations & traffic areas from falling boxes & parts
  • Reduces inventory loss/damage by preventing
  • falls off storage racks or between back-to-back racks
  • Easy to install and clean
  • Wont’ sag or stretch

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Carrying Cost of Inventory

Storage Productivity - Volume of inventory stored per square foot

Space Utilization - Percentage of space occupied by inventory out of the total space available for storage.

Inventory Turnover

Inventory to Sales Ratio

Solution Providers

Conveyor & Storage Solutions,Inc

Case Studies

Records Storage with Pallet Racks

Records Storage with Pallet Racks

Overview

Pallet racks are the most popular type of storage system for warehouse storage. Warehouse pallet racks can be designed for pallets, boxes, cartons, furniture, carpet, records archives, crates, bulk storage, and almost any other type of raw goods and finished products.

Our engineering department can design a storage system for almost any application in the material handling industry, from heavy duty pallet racks to light duty pallet racks, and everything in between.

Challenges

Manage a large volume of incoming records involving a digital scanning process and the destruction of unneeded files.

Solutions

All of the incoming files would arrive as palletized record archive boxes. Designing a high-density pallet rack system maximized the storage capacity, while providing an efficient management system to storing and retrieving files.

  • Better space utilization
  • Reduce rejection rates
  • Safety
  • Increase accuracy and throughput

Benefits and Impacts

Periodic Assessment

Periodic assessment to prevent deterioration of products

Assessing Product Condition

Storage Area /Environment Assessment

Inventory Management System

Optimizing inventory turn over

Optimizing of inventory turns over time

to measure how many times stock is sold (or used) within a fixed period of time.

Solutions

Demand Forecasting

Demand Forecasting

  • Historical performance and item level demand can be used to calculate possible future trends, taking into account possible changes or demand variability.
  • In vertical supply chains, supplier communication can be improved to ‘pull’ systems, which manufacture only on demand (and therefore need considerably less inventory).
  • Refining order-purchasing processes is the fastest way to reduce costs in the supply chain and to ensure demand forecasting accuracy.

Inventory Redistribution

Inventory Redistribution

  • Redistributing items to other stock locations that have greater demand for those items.
  • This process eliminates the need to procure more inventories from the supplier and helps keep inventory item counts low and lean.
  • When stock is moved from one warehouse location to another, a record still needs to be maintained across all systems to maintain accurate inventory analysis.

Track Inventory Obsolescence

Track Inventory Obsolescence

  • It is important for an organization to work backwards to identify the obsolete items in inventory and to identify why that item is still in stock without associated customer demand
  • Optimization systems can alert managers when item level demand is falling off and large quantities of inventory are still in stock and are at risk of becoming obsolete.

Data Integration

Data Integration

  • Inventory systems that are seamlessly integrated can easily gather records of items purchased for more advanced inventory control and turnover analysis.
  • Advanced optimization software is mostly offered as a cloud solution and can be dynamically integrated to almost all older ERP’s or legacy inventory tracking systems

ABC Analysis

ABC Analysis

  • A - high-value products with a low frequency of sales
  • B - moderate value products with a moderate frequency of sales
  • C - low-value products with a high frequency of sales

Pain points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

  • Seasonal demand trends
  • Outdated stock analysis
  • High Carrying costs
  • slow inventory turnover ratios for expensive stocked items leading to high inventory costs and possibly a greater risk of inventory obsolescence

KPI impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Carrying Cost Of Inventory

Productivity - Inventory turn over , Gross Contribution Margin (GCM) performance

Efficiency -Return on Assets (ROA) (Net Income/ Total Assets)

Quality - Supplier Quality Index

Order Cycle Time

Solution Provider

Solution Providers

Microsoft

Case Studies

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC develops, tests, sells, and deploys RFID and software solutions for large and small organizations worldwide.

Overview

Challenges

SML Intelligent Inventory's customers, some retail and supply chain businesses wanted a cost-efficient way to improve their inventory management so that they can increase their revenue.

Solutions

The Clarity Application Suite uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to enable customers to see their entire supply chain, end to end, with greater precision and granularity than ever before, driving better insights, analytics, and decision making. Microsoft Azure App Service and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines are used as supporting software.

Hardware Components

- RFID

Software Components

- Microsoft Azure App Service

- Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Benefits and Impacts

  • Employee Efficiency : Clarity Application Suite decreased labor cost of inventory processes by 50% or more.
  • Highest throughput
  • Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to reduce out-of-stocks & shrinkage up to 25%
  • Real time tracking
  • increased utilization of assets by 50% or more
  • decreased outstanding sales by 10% more with accurate, timely invoices

Ensuring stock rotations

Stock Rotations

Solutions

Solutions

When Inventory or stock is held in a warehouse for any period of time it is important to have a correct way of tracking this inventory throughout the warehouse, supply chain, and when it gets shipped to customers. This becomes an important issue when the value to weight ratio of the products is quite high and/or when the products are perishable.

Correct stock/inventory rotation is important with perishable products

Stock rotation systems

  • Two bay stock rotation system- one bay is filled at a time and the other bay can supply the system. This is very similar to the two-bin system
  • FIFO - A FIFO warehouse system is an inventory management system in which the first or oldest stock is used first and the stock or inventory that has most recently been produced or received is only used or shipped out until all inventory in the warehouse or store before it has been used or shipped out. This ensures that the oldest stock is used first and reduces the costs of obsolete inventory. It is also considered the ideal stock rotation system.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

  • Customer satisfaction
  • Outdated (obsolete) stock analysis
  • Quality control improvement
  • Warranty Issuance and Control
  • Availability of Most Recent Product Iterations using FIFO stock rotation system
  • Storage space utilization

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Holding costs (This KPI measures the costs related to storing unsold inventory. This includes the cost of damaged and spoiled goods, as well as the cost of storage space, labor and insurance.)

Productivity - Inventory turn over , Gross Contribution Margin (GCM) performance

Efficiency -Return on Assets (ROA) (Net Income/ Total Assets)

Quality - Inventory Accuracy rate, rate of return

Lead Time , Average Days to Sell Inventory (DSI)

Solution Providers

Westfalia

Case Studies

FIFO pallet racking system

FIFO Pallet Racking System

FIFO pallet flow storage system can double or triple the capacity of a warehouse and is an ideal alternative to drive-in, static racks or storing pallets on the floor, as well as allowing for FIFO stock control. FIFO warehouse racking systems are one of the most efficient types of warehouse storage racks.

Overview

Available warehouse space, operational efficiency,potential for inventory write-offs due to expirations and Availability of Most Recent Product Iterations

Challenges

In the FIFO pallet flow system, pallets load at the top end of an inclined rack, which allows them to glide at a controlled pace to the other side of the storage rack. These pallet rack systems ensure that the face along the aisles always remains stocked, maximizing the available storage space and using available vertical space to minimize the overall footprint.

Solutions

Benefits and Impacts

  • Automates FIFO inventory control.
  • Minimizes warehousing and handling costs.
  • Maximizes warehouse capacity/cubic storage space.
  • Operates in temperatures ranging from minus-30 degrees Fahrenheit to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Standard flow rails are constructed from 4-inch-by-1-inch galvanized steel, with flow wheels mounted in a single- or double-staggered configuration.
  • Cast aluminum flow wheels are available for impact protection.
  • Centrifugal speed controllers have steel gears to maximize performance and life of mechanism.
  • No springs or mechanical adjustment required — Westfalia Technologies’ brake tire maximizes pallet engagement by compressing and taking the shape of the bottom board surface, conforming to the shape of warped or cracked bottom boards.

LIFO Pushback Pallet Flow System

LIFO Pushback Pallet Flow System

Overview

Last in, first out (LIFO) pushback pallet racking systems are ideal for any company that needs to maximize storage and has products that are not subject to expiration, deterioration or obsolescence. This is because LIFO pushback racking works by positioning the most recently stored inventory to be picked first and enabling high storage density.

Challenges

Available warehouse space, operational efficiency, potential for inventory write-offs due to expirations and Availability of Most Recent Product Iterations

Solutions

LIFO pushback pallet racking uses gravity to move the pallets on a flow rack where the pallets are pushed back into the system when new pallets are added to the rack. Then, when the front pallets are unloaded, gravity moves the rear pallets forward to the aisle, eliminating the need for drive-in racks or manual handling. Lanes are equipped with either series 2300 wheels or wheeled pallet carts for quiet, frictionless movement. With LIFO systems from Westfalia Technologies, there is always a pallet at the front of the rack for picking.

  • Pushback racking system controls inventory by pallet, ensuring LIFO usage.
  • Pushback racking stores multiple SKUs on various levels of lanes for easy product access.
  • Pushback racking maximizes warehouse capacity and space utilization.
  • Available in two, three, four, five and six pallet deep styles — depending on product volume and warehouse configuration.
  • Pushback pallet racking can be arranged as standalone bay, or as a back‑to‑back system.
  • Pushback racking is available with a nested wheel cart or on series 2300 wheels.

Benefits and Impacts

updating the material inventory records

Updating the inventory records

Solutions

Solutions

Inventory control systems used for identifying inventory items and their information including barcode labels or asset tags; hardware tools for scanning barcode labels or RFID tags; a central database for all inventory in addition to the ability to analyze data, generate reports, and forecast demand; and processes for labeling, documenting, and reporting inventory along with a proven inventory methodology like just-in-time, ABC analysis, first-in, or first out (FIFO), or last-in-first-out (LIFO)

Types

  • Perpetual Inventory System - It continually updates inventory records and accounts for additions and subtractions when inventory items are received, sold from stock, moved from one location to another, picked from inventory, and scrapped. Some organizations prefer perpetual inventory systems because they deliver up-to-date inventory information and better handle minimal physical inventory counts. Perpetual inventory systems also are preferred for tracking inventory because they deliver accurate results on a continual basis when managed properly
  • Periodic inventory systems do not track inventory on a daily basis; rather, they allow organizations to know the beginning and ending inventory levels during a certain period of time. These types of inventory control systems track inventory using physical inventory counts.
  • Barcode systems update inventory levels automatically when workers scan them with a barcode scanner or mobile device
  • Radio frequency identification (RFID) inventory systems use active and passive technology to manage inventory movements. Active RFID technology uses fixed tag readers throughout the warehouse; RFID tags pass the reader, and the movement is recorded in the inventory management software.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

  • Customer satisfaction
  • Outdated (obsolete) stock analysis
  • Quality control improvement
  • Speed and accuracy when dealing with and responding to clients
  • Expense Control
  • Identifying Issues Promptly such as product loss through damages, theft or unknown causes
  • Accurate and regular maintenance of physical vs book stocks record.

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Holding costs (This KPI measures the costs related to storing unsold inventory. This includes the cost of damaged and spoiled goods, as well as the cost of storage space, labor and insurance.)

Productivity - Inventory turn over , Gross Contribution Margin (GCM) performance

Efficiency -Return on Assets (ROA) (Net Income/ Total Assets)

Quality - Inventory Accuracy rate, rate of return

Lead Time , Average Days to Sell Inventory (DSI)

Solution Providers

Microsoft

Case Studies

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions

SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC develops, tests, sells, and deploys RFID and software solutions for large and small organizations worldwide.

Overview

Challenges

SML Intelligent Inventory's customers, some retail and supply chain businesses wanted a cost-efficient way to improve their inventory management so that they can increase their revenue.

Solutions

The Clarity Application Suite uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to enable customers to see their entire supply chain, end to end, with greater precision and granularity than ever before, driving better insights, analytics, and decision making. Microsoft Azure App Service and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines are used as supporting software.

Hardware Components

- RFID

Software Components

- Microsoft Azure App Service

- Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Benefits and Impacts

  • Employee Efficiency : Clarity Application Suite decreased labor cost of inventory processes by 50% or more.
  • Highest throughput
  • Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to reduce out-of-stocks & shrinkage up to 25%
  • Real time tracking
  • increased utilization of assets by 50% or more
  • decreased outstanding sales by 10% more with accurate, timely invoices

Distribution

Transportation

Solutions

Solutions

- safe movement of loads

Automated Computer-controlled load carriers that travel along the floor of a facility without an on board operator or driver. The automated guided vehicles aids in transportation of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods in support of manufacturing production lines, and storage/retrieval or other movements in support of picking in warehousing and distribution applications

Technologies /Equipments

  • Automated carts
  • Unit load AGVs
  • Tugger AGVs
  • Automated forklift AGVs,
  • Autonomous intelligent vehicles - self-learning devices that automatically adjust its routes to avoid people or obstacles.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Lower labor costs and operating costs

2. Ergonomics

3. safe movement of loads

4.Reduction in product damage

5. Scalability - expand capacity and throughput

Case Study

Autonomous Transportation in Logistics

Autonomous Transportation in Logistics

Overview

Autonomous transportation describes systems that provide unmanned, autonomous transfer of equipment, baggage, people, information or resources from point-to-point with minimal intervention.

Labor costs, more work force, Human error , inventory efficiency and accuracy, delivery accuracy, materials and products supply at the right time are the major challenges faced in Logistics.

Challenges

Autonomous vehicles use system information to supply material and products at the right time efficiently (optimal routes, order prioritization). The system handles the transportation of parts and finished goods between the warehouse and production zone and takes over tasks that otherwise need to be done manually.AGVS pick up the ordered components and deliver them to buffers at the assigned lines.AIVs that are similar to traditional automated guided vehicles (AGVs), but feature next-generation technology. Unlike AGVs, which travel along predefined paths on a factory floor, AIVs are self-learning devices. They are able to automatically adjust their routes to avoid people or obstacles.

Solutions

  • Decrease of human error
  • Increase of material and product availability at working stations
  • Reduction of FTE
  • Provides additional flexibility
  • Reduces Labor costs
  • Higher efficiency

Benefits and Impacts

Route Optimization

Route Optimization

Overview

In order to get an optimal route for warehouse intelligent vehicle, routing optimization in complex global dynamic environment is studied.A new evolutionary ant colony algorithm based on RFID and knowledge-refinement is proposed. The new algorithm gets environmental information timely through the RFID technology and updates the environment map at the same time.

Changing customer needs, time sensitivity, capacity restraints as well as historical and real-time data flows such as traffic and navigation ― all contribute to the complexity of executing the perfect delivery

Challenges

Route planning software solution balances all of the business constraints around workers, orders, vehicles, and compliance to create the most efficient routes possible. These routes are then monitored via real-time execution in order to understand how the day is unfolding.

Strategic territory and route optimization solutions allow to balance overall workload while decreasing costs and adhering to business constraints. Create the optimal sales and delivery territories using route planning software's powerful algorithms that encompass customer needs and available resources while considering geographic areas, capacity, and more.

Solutions

  • Decrease of human error
  • Increase of material and product availability at working stations
  • Improves asset utilization
  • Provides additional flexibility
  • Reduces Labor costs
  • Higher efficiency

Benefits and Impacts

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Transportation cost

Productivity - Process conformity with planned processes (%), Transport Schedule compliance (%)

Utilization - Transport capacity utilization (%), Resource utilization capacity (%)

Quality - Perfect Order rate, Rejection rates %

Cycle Time - Order Lead Time

The percentage of labor & pick/pack equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Solution Providers

Axter

Case Studies

Special AGV - China

Special AGV

Overview

Internal, floor-supported material handling systems with automatically controlled vehicles whose main purpose is materials handling with the advantage of utmost flexibility

The client faces complex material handling due to non-standard load dimensions and weight, increasing safety risks and load handling damages.

Challenges

Axter delivered a dedicated special stacker forklift with precise and reliable automatic handling abilities.

Axter Supervisor supports operators in production lines providing real-time 'Quality Control' buffering areas' availabilities in order to allocate accordingly the new cargo entry. AGV handle automatically their requests navigating in a tight and narrow environment to reach their final destination efficiently and safely while AGV Control Supervisor updates timely operators.

Solutions

  • Improved internal logistics efficiency
  • Improved workshops environment safety
  • Reduced loads handling risks
  • Cost-saving on material handling workforce
  • Scalability

Benefits and Impacts

Packaging

Solutions

Solutions

- Intelligent Packaging

With proven technologies in RFID, UHF and NFC tags on the packages or individual items, the packaging can become intelligent. RFID readers and antennas can identify several hundred items per second, with much higher accuracy than barcodes.

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1. Inventory accuracy

2. Slash out-of-stocks, shrinkage and mark-downs

3. Aid product authentication – prevent loss and counterfeiting

4.Reduce manual labour and costs, and errors due to inaccuracies and inefficiencies

5. Increase profit margins

KPI impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Handling costs, Packaging material costs

Productivity - No.of deliverables per head

Quality - Packaging errors %

Order Cycle Time

The percentage of labor & pick/pack equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Solution Providers

Polytron

Case Studies

Starving Packer

Starving Packer

Overview

Engineers at a large consumer packaging company believe they have an problematic code problem with a laner. Engineers look at four possible scenarios to solve the riddle:

1. Change PLC code for laner

2. Add buffer after laner

3. Add buffer before laner

4. Change slug size

Challenges

Unbalanced lanes at a downstream packer are causing big problems for a large packaging line. The photo eye is getting tripped, shutting down the upstream wrapper, but the packer is starved.

Using PolySim, the team can emulate the effect of product design variables on the working line, so system changes

can be created and tested without impacting production. The team decides to emulate the movement of the photo

eye upstream to emulate adding buffer before the laner.

The emulation provided significant improvements to the line: a 19% jump in average throughput of the laner – and no shutdowns of the wrapper

Solutions

  • Improved internal logistics efficiency
  • Improved throughput
  • Smooth out operation lines
  • Human error reduction
  • Scalability

Benefits and Impacts

Premium Freight Monitoring

Solutions

Solutions

  • Inventory level analysis and maintenance
  • Advanced planning of receipt
  • Reorder level monitoring
  • Price negotiation and contract agreement with transporters

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

1.Better inventory management, lower inventory levels, reduced carrying costs

2.Improved on-time deliveries

3.Less handling and damage, efficient receiving

4.Proactive notification of disruptions

5.Administrative efficiency

6.Increased customer satisfaction

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - Transportation cost

Productivity - Labor Productivity

Revenue yield

Quality - Rejection rates %

On-time pickup and delivery , Loading or unloading time

The percentage of labor & pick/pack equipment out of the total labor and equipment utilized during the process

Solution Providers

Data2Logistics

Case Studies

FREIGHT COST SAVINGS.

Freight Cost Savings

The client was shipping multiple, individual packages from a common origin to the common destination. The client had been taking advantage of our pre-audit and payment services and had succeeded in reducing freight costs through audit recoveries and automation of the freight billing process.

Overview

Challenges

High Freight costs, error proofing freight billing process, Improvement in on-time deliveries, better inventory management (inventory levels)

With the information made available by utilizing our Data2InformSM intelligence tool the client was able to identify an opportunity to consolidate packages and ship in bulk, thereby reducing the number of shipments being generated and sent to customers. By consolidating individual shipments with common origins and destinations, and instead shipping in bulk, the client realized a reduction in freight costs of over $350,000 per year.

Solutions

  • Reduction in freight costs of over $350,000 per year
  • Premium freight management , error proofing through audits
  • Human error reduction due to automation of billing process
  • On time deliveries
  • Increased accuracy

Benefits and Impacts

Location of distribution facilities

Performance Evaluation

Adherence to legal compliance

External Provider selection and evaluation

External provider evaluation

Solutions

Solutions

- Audit

Second- party Audit

establishing sustainable quality standards and providing constant access to reliable information.

The audit is performed when

  • Developing a new product and determining sourcing for sub-components
  • Approving a new supplier for sourcing of current parts or commodities
  • Exploring alternate sources of parts during a cost reduction effort
  • Investigating a quality issue with the supplier’s product
  • Confirming completion of corrective actions from a past quality issue
  • Performing a review or maintenance audit as part of a supplier management process

Pain Points Addressed

Pain Points Addressed

  • Addressing quality issues
  • Meeting product demands
  • On time receipt
  • costs involved with product recalls, field campaigns, and loss of brand equity

KPI Impact

Key Performance Indicators

Cost - follow up audits

Quality - No.of non conformities

Pro active measures

Cycle Time - frequency of the audit

Out Bound Logistics

Production

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