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Productivity Strategies & Solutions, Inc., located in the heart of one of the densest manufacturing centers in the country, has been implementing manufacturing systems since our inception as PMI in 1987. We specialize in manufacturing, giving you the benefit of our years of experience.
A manufacturing system integrated with your inventory and accounting systems is vital for cost management. Manufacturing to inventory integration will show you the raw materials on hand at any time and help you predict the purchases required for planned production or open sales orders. Purchasing can then order material based on known requirements rather than guesses, and you will be assured that you have the material necessary to continue operations.
Production scheduling, integrated with the sales order entry and inventory, saves a tremendous amount of time for your production managers. The manual scheduling that they may do now every morning may be eliminated by generating, and then fine-tuning, the integrated production plans.
In many companies, it takes 10 profitable jobs to make up for one loser – and it’s too late to find out at the end of the month that you have a loser! A manufacturing package integrated with shop floor data collection and purchasing provides you with the information you need to determine total, up to date costs of your finished products. Without an integrated system, if your labor time or rates change, if your costs change, or if the product material composition changes, you have no quick and easy method of recalculating the total cost of production to determine your profit margins.
Having an integrated system will reduce repetitive data entry and allow you to share information throughout the company, freeing your staff to move on to more productive activities and reducing the probability of errors in the system. Handling data and processing paper two or three times is an inefficient use of your staff’s time.
