Monday, December 21, 2009

Ultriva’s Electronic Kanban Profiled in Manufacturing Business Technology

In the accepted affair of Manufacturing Business Technology, Christian Zweifel, VP of accomplishment technology for Franke Food Service noted, “SaaS-based cyberbanking kanban band-aid from Ultriva is chip with abstracts abstracts from two key suppliers to administer angular bushing and will be formed out to added suppliers in the future.”

The Ultriva band-aid has just two credibility of affiliation to Franke’s customized ERP solution, both accompanying to the aperture and closing of acquirement orders. Product abstracts from the suppliers’ ERP systems is aswell uploaded into the system. The Ultriva kanban band-aid is aswell chip with some basal barcode scanning of shipments from supplier sites, and accepting at Franke’s site.

Ultriva’s web-based software makes it acceptable for suppliers to see what kanban requirements are cat-and-mouse (email alerts can aswell be used) and both Franke and its suppliers accept web-based acceptance to reports. The insights accept helped the ally hit bacteria account levels, consistent in a 275% advance in account turns for appurtenances sourced via the system, according Zweifel.

“The axial authentication of appeal apprenticed accumulation alternation is an cyberbanking kanban arrangement which achieves accumulation in several key areas,” according to Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva, (www.ultriva.com).

• It reduces the charge to body inventory. All assembly is accomplished based on the actual needs of customers. Inventory turns for kanban locations are optimized (a analogue of angular accounting.)
• Time spent by chump account communicating on expedited locations issues is about been alone through a appeal apprenticed accumulation chain. Often chump account agents associates absorb 40% of their time expediting allotment orders above-mentioned to cyberbanking kanban implementation.
• Sales accept added with the account of the e-kanban affairs because the chestnut architect no best uses accommodation to body locations after an adjustment to buy NOW. 100% of assembly accommodation is activated to body locations that are already awash as anon as they hit the shipment dock.

Laksham insists, “Capacity is big-ticket and a appeal apprenticed accumulation alternation via agenda kanban provides angular accounting ability and abolishment of waste.”

Ultriva's flagship product, Ultriva cyberbanking 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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