Ultriva’s Director of Engineering Looks at the Future of Kanban

According to Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva, (www.ultriva.com), “We architecture 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.

According to Pushparaj Shanmugam, Director of Engineering for Ultriva, “Our capital differentiator is our band-aid is complete based on Lean Manufacturing principles. We did not attending into the MRP/ERP access instead we came up with the Kanban/Just-in-time/Lean Manufacturing band-aid that would accompaniment their MRP/ERP solutions. In some means I would alarm Ultriva a Rule Breaker.”

Some of the capital appearance that differentiate Ultriva from added solutions include:

•Powerful Loopsize astrologer helps to abate inventory
•Powerful Auto-Resizing apparatus helps our barter to resize their Kanban bend based on actual advice or based on some forecasts
•Patent awaiting Lean Assessment apparatus helps our barter to aces appropriate Kanban products
•Categorizing Red, Yellow and Green based on the account akin helps our chump to act bound on their inventory
•Inventory Health dashboard helps buyers and suppliers to see the abstracts consistently
•Exception based alerts
•Intuitive Kanban Board
•Production Sequencing for Internal Kanban

Shanmugam aswell noted, “In the accomplished 10 years we accept alien assorted modules, and appearance to our products. Currently we are alive on our next bearing artefact absolution which we alarm LeanSuite. This is one of a lot of aggressive projects from Ultriva’s history. This artefact alms will accompany our assorted modules into a apartment of applications and our chump will be able to enable/disable the applications and appearance based on their needs. Additionally we aswell anticipate the accustomed change would be from actuality is what we alarm Lean ERP. Lean ERP arrangement would be ideal for abounding mid-size companies to administer their account and banking in a individual portal. This would be agnate to how accepted on-demand based solutions which helps companies to abate amount on CRM.”

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Cindy McGowan
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