Ultriva Inc., the aggregation that designs software and solutions to accredit ‘Lean Business' through customer-centered manufacturing, has launched a chargeless apparatus that lets manufacturers bound quantify the abeyant accumulation that could be acquired through account reduction. The Lean Assessment Tool, appear one year ago is accessible online at www.ultriva.com and assists abstracts management, accumulation alternation replenishment, purchasing and operations professionals in their adventure to accumulate their accomplishment amount chain.
"Even admitting the ‘lean philosophy' can charge the association in agreement of action changes and improvements, one across area it has actual appulse is account management," said Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva. "Having the appropriate aggregate and actual mix of account is the key to accomplishing near-perfect, on-time delivery. The Lean Assessment Tool provides a fast appraisal of area a aggregation can optimize its locations account and puts a aggregation on the alley to just-in-time replenishment. Companies that acclimated the apparatus during the contempo three-month beta aeon have, in aggregate, articular abeyant amount accumulation of added than $10M."
The Lean Assessment Tool lets users upload hundreds of locations histories and again graphically anticipate their accepted bushing patterns alternating with approaching abeyant opportunities. Ultriva's patent-pending consumption-driven bushing algorithms acquiesce users to accomplish ‘what if' simulations in absolute time.
Accessing the Lean Assessment Tool is easy. After a two-step allotment process, users log in and upload their own account abstracts (ideally six to twelve months of actual information), guided by a accessible wizard. The Lean Assessment Tool again performs a absolute account allocation appraisal and instantly identifies specific locations that can be optimized through account reduction. Users can then:
Look at abeyant accumulation by locations and by suppliers.
View the top 100 locations that action the accomplished savings.
Conduct ‘What If' analyses by interactively capricious lot sizes, advance times and assurance stocks.
Create letters and archive that can be exported and adored locally.
Share the appraisal with aggregation associates and management.
"Several of our accepted barter accept been able to bound analyze locations that should go into a pilot study, added suppliers they should accompany online, or added plants that should go live," added Laksham. "On average, companies that use the Lean Assessment Tool analyze amount accumulation of 30 to 50 percent, which implies a actual acceptable ROI for implementing a consumption-driven bushing methodology."
The Lean Assessment Tool is advantageous for any manufacturer, no amount area it is on the aisle against a angular accomplishment program. "We generally plan with companies application an MRP arrangement that had accustomed up on chiral Kanban methods. They ambition to apperceive if cyberbanking Kanban is appropriate for them. The Lean Assessment Tool can acknowledgment that catechism because it's like accepting a Lean able on your desktop," added Laksham.
About Ultriva
Ultriva Inc. designs angular accomplishment software and solutions that drive angular processes above the accumulation chain, from suppliers to customers. Ultriva's flagship product, Ultriva Electronic Kanban, eliminates stock-outs while abbreviation account levels up to 75 percent. Ultriva Lean Scheduling complements demand-driven bushing strategies by optimizing assembly schedules in absolute time about the a lot of capricious chump demand. Ultriva Supplier Replenishment extends the bushing capabilities of Kanban to cover schedule-based replenishment, detached POs, min/max, assignment and VMI (vendor-managed inventory) bushing methods. Ultriva's articles are in use in added than 100 plants worldwide, accumulation added than 4,000 suppliers, transacting over one billion dollars of account and abbreviation accomplishment costs for industry leaders such as AGCO, Emerson, Ingersoll-Rand, McKesson, Rexnord, and Timken.
Ultriva
www.ultriva.com
Cindy McGowan
pr@ultriva.com
408.248.9803
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