Solutions: Architecture

Leveraging Your Supply Chain Infrastructure

Traditional ERP, MRP, SCM and MES systems are push-based and don’t account well for variability in capacity and inventory. Inventory gets sent to the floor and products get pushed to market whether they’re needed or not. Promises to customers are often inaccurate because they’re not based on up-to-the minute factory operations. Operating parameters such as inventory reorder points and quantities or batch sizes are static and hard to maintain.

Invistics software complements existing systems by providing tools that allow manufacturers to account for varability, design and implement flow manufacturing processes that are more flexible, conduct ongoing analysis of plant floor health based on real-time data while optimizing throughput, cycle time and customer service based to achieve operations goals.

MachSix provides seamless interoperability with SAP R/3® so data from up-to-the minute plant floor operations is integrated with ordering and inventory management systems in the front office. Best of all, MachSix Missions can be implemented in a pilot via the web, so you begin realizing tactical benefits almost immediately, while laying a strategic foundation for long-term sustained results.

Ultimately, advanced analytics, optimization and simulation tools like Invistics software are the next generation of connectivity systems between ERP applications and plant floor execution systems. Invistics MachSix, bridges the gap between the front office and the factory to strengthen the supply chain’s weakest link and make it operate more efficiently.