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Once-thriving manufacturers are now plagued by shrinking profit margins, intensifying competitive pressures, and buyers who have fewer dollars to spend. At the same time, internal operations and external supply chain activities have become more complex, making them much harder to track and control. As a result, companies in the manufacturing industry must find new ways to optimize productivity, improve customer service, expand market share, increase revenues, and control expenses.

Information Builders in Manufacturing

With Information Builders’ business intelligence and enterprise integration solutions, manufacturing companies can significantly improve the way they do business. Firms of all sizes have the powerful tools they need to enhance and accelerate core operations, respond swiftly to marketplace changes and customer needs, improve relationships with key business partners, identify and leverage new revenue streams, minimize waste, and operate more cost-efficiently. 

Technologies from Information Builders empower today’s manufacturing and production companies to gain complete, unhindered visibility into key operations. This allows them to enhance the way they:

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of production, distribution, order fulfillment, quality management, and other mission-critical activities
  • Define and measure key performance metrics such as production capacity, stock levels, pending orders, and on-time delivery ratios
  • Track the supply chain from end to end to identify and correct breakdowns before they cause delays
  • Accurately forecast demand and adjust production schedules accordingly
  • Assess the performance of suppliers and vendors
  • Monitor patterns and trends in operations, to instantly spot and resolve exceptions, variances, and deviations
  • Facilitate instant communication and information-sharing with business partners and customers

This ability to retrieve, consolidate, and analyze information – in real-time – from virtually any source across the business, helps manufacturers gain the insight they need to achieve peak levels of productivity and cost-efficiency.

Development and Implementation

Information Builders' Professional Services employs a team of manufacturing specialists to assist with your implementation.

Contact us to discuss your specific organizational needs.