Manufacturers are increasingly being charged with creating better products, selling them in different ways, and at the same time, reducing their costs. Compounding these pressures are issues with increased globalization, complex supply chains, e-procurement and business continuity. At the same time, manufacturers need to comply with changing regulations and compliance issues as well as adopting quality programs such as ISO 9000 certification and Six Sigma programs. Manufacturers need the competitive advantage that a solution from Versata provides.
Manufacturing companies use Versata business rules to tackle the following kinds of issues:
- Product information management — manages the process of taking new products to market including the organization of product naming, features & benefits, pricing and sales channels.
- Master data management — manages shared customer information that feeds enterprise systems such as SAP, Siebel, I2, Trilogy, plus hundreds of custom-built applications.
- Supplier portal — manages the purchasing and tracking of product parts from suppliers. This helps manufacturers better manage their relationship with materials vendors and reduce delays by fully using supply chain integration.
- Order fulfillment — ensuring that the order lifecycle works smoothly at all the steps along the product path from order entry, manufacturing, delivery and billing.
- Integrated channel management — creating consistency throughout supplier and customer touch points including sales, resellers, distributors and web.
- Outsourcing — enabling outsourcing of manufacturing without negatively affecting the quality of the product.
- Operations scheduling — determining the optimal manufacturing sequence, while considering constraints and restrictions.
- Create audit trails and total quality management feedback loops — deploying a closed loop system for audit and quality that both meets regulatory requirements and continually improves the processes. Monitor and analyze how processes execute to identify opportunities for process improvements.
Versata solutions have helped the following companies deploy manufacturing solutions:
- Componenta Wirsbo
- DaimlerChrysler
- Ego Optiska
- Hella
- IBM
- Saab Aerospace
- The Boeing Company
- Uponor Wirsbo
