(Apriso Inc.: Long Beach, CA) --Manufacturers embracing lean as a corporate philosophy understand that business processes must be steadily improved to gain efficiency, improve quality, cut waste, and enhance your value stream. However, achieving visibility and control to evaluate, measure, and improve these processes can be quite difficult, especially when spread across a distributed production and warehouse environment.

FlexNet Lean Material Flow is a lean solution from Apriso that eases tracking, management, and synchronization of material flows, business processes, and data spanning beyond production to warehouse operations. By creating custom bar code labels for individual bins, boxes, or pallets, materials can be more accurately tracked in real-time, providing global visibility and control to efficiently manage and streamline material flows. Manage work in process (WIP) from receiving through production, quality, finished goods assembly, and final customer shipment. Synchronize production, WIP, and enterprise resource planning systems to efficiently “pull” materials across production to eliminate warehouse inventory and increase quality—approaching zero parts per million defect rates for best-in-class customer satisfaction, while cutting costs and improving cash flow.

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