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Apparel manufacturing, footwear manufacturing and other soft goods manufacturing enterprises are faced with volatile product lifecycles and transient demand. They share a need to slash "dirt-to-shirt" cycles, lower costs, improve margins, and increase profitability. With Adexa, soft goods manufacturers can create reliable demand forecasts, increase your supply chain responsiveness, synchronize material and capacity planning, optimize inventory and improve supply chain management. - Optimize Resource Investments -- Compare financial KPIs and tie them into operational KPIs to ensure a response to opportunities and threats in a timely manner.
- Accelerate Lead Times -- Compress planning and production cycles based on greater precision and responsiveness in demand planning and transparency of information throughout the supply chain.
- Reduce Inventories -- Hedge against inaccurate forecasting by making the entire supply chain leaner, more responsive, more reliable. Reduce total inventories including raw materials, WIP, model stock inventories and finished goods.
- Consolidate Planning -- Integrate sales, inventory and operations to establish a common language for capturing demand and supply information and feeding decisions directly to varied enterprise and shop floor systems.
- Improve Capacity Utilization -- Automatically communicate front-end demand changes to allow responsive re-allocation of back-end resources.
- Enable Collaboration -- Deliver better information faster through the virtual supply chain so trading partners can plan and execute proactively to help soft goods manufacturers reach their goals.
- Measure, Monitor, Notify, and Adjust -- Use hundreds of pre-built, audit-ready/approved KPIs across all departments and roles to stay continuously informed about all aspects of production.
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