SMART Manufacturing Enablement
SMART MANUFACTURING
… MES MEETS THE SUPPLY CHAIN
The vision of integrating the production management information provided by an MES system seamlessly into the Supply Chain has been talked about for 2 decades. MESA has had this vision from its earliest days and most recently as embodied in the definition of SMART MANUFACTURING:
“SMART Manufacturing is the intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain; from supplier to production to customer.”
Gartner has also recently stated:
“SMART Manufacturing initiatives are changing the focus of manufacturers from internally focused, plant-specific functionality to more end-to-end solutions, changing MES from plant monitoring to a key data and intelligence source for the enterprise and supply chain.” Rick Franzosa and Christian Hestermann, Gartner® – Critical Capabilities for Manufacturing Execution
Leveraging MES, Smart Factories and adopting data-driven approaches to manufacturing are critical for businesses to improve their efficiency and productivity. However, manufacturers must also effectively manage their end-to-end supply chains to deliver the goods on-time in-full (OTIF). Synchronizing manufacturing and supply chain execution creates a more real-time responsive supply chain enabling higher customer service levels, improved performance and creating a time-based competitive advantage.
To date however, no one has fully integrated an MES solution with a full featured Supply Chain (SC) platform to create the first SMART MANUFACTURING offering and enabling true value chain optimization.
Vecco’s patented VCRP Control Tower is the only comprehensive Supply Chain platform that can tie seamlessly into an MES solution to incorporate and synchronize its real-time production data across the value chain.
The leading MES firms are moving to THE NEXT LEVEL, incorporating full Supply Chain Capability to become a true SMART MANUFACTURING solution and disrupt the industry.
Supply Chain 4.0 enabling the ‘Digital Enterprise’ and Industry 4.0
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