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With an aggressive build-and-ship
schedule and outsourced manufacturing… Centerpoint
needed help integrating worldwide financial, procurement
and production functions…. and they needed it
yesterday.
Quovera was there.
Business
objectives:
- Integrate business processes
and systems to accommodate production and expansion
/ acquisition goals
- Define outsourced manufacturing
strategy and model
- Integrate suppliers with internal
planning, procurement, and fulfillment functions
The plan mandated a build-and-ship
schedule of less than 5 months, but Centerpoint lacked
integrated financial, manufacturing, distribution,
and planning functions. They needed applications capable
of supporting international operations and outsourced
manufacturing. Once installed, Centerpoint also needed
all 250 employees trained and proficient in the new
system.
As a result of the Quovera
solution, Centerpoint:
- Realized seamless interaction
across enterprise users and data
- Employees were trained
and proficient within four months
- Deployed all critical
business processes to position Centerpoint for future
rapid growth
- Achieved tight integration
between engineering, material planning, purchasing
and prototyping systems
- Defined global outsourced
manufacturing strategies
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case study
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The idea of a virtual vs. vertical infrastructure
was never a serious consideration until the Internet made
resources and information so accessible. Today, the advantages
of focusing on core competencies and outsourcing the rest
frequently outweigh the costs of managing added complexity.
As a result, Next generation infrastructure OEMs in the Computer,
Electronics, Internetworking / Telecomm Equipment and Handheld
devices sectors are distributing large portions of operations
outside their four walls. It is not uncommon for global, multi-tier
value chains to include electronics and mechanical component
suppliers, Contract Manufacturers, Third Party Logistics Providers,
Value added resellers, Distributors, and a host of complementary
Service Providers.
This level of coordination and management
presents new challenges. To be successful in the High Tech
Industry, you must be able to:
- Conserve cash during difficult market
conditions, while laying the foundation for future growth
& success
- Improve efficiency, reduce costs and
eliminate waste by improving processes, procedures and controls
and by conducting all facets of your business on the Internet
- Accurately forecast (and, to the extent
possible, profitably influence) your demand
- Balance ever-decreasing time value of
inventory & obsolescence costs of over-estimating the
demand vs. opportunity (product availability) costs of under-estimating
the demand.
- Coordinate and optimize planning and
execution of globally dispersed design, manufacturing, &
distribution processes
- Embrace and master revolutionary (disruptive)
as well as evolutionary innovations
- Manage shrinking product lifecycles
& growing product variety
- Comply with complex import / export
trade regulations, especially in the post 9-11 world
- Make quick, informed & intelligent
business decisions grounded in up-to-the minute facts
- Collaborate with customers, suppliers
& partners to gain full visibility of your value chain
No matter what aspect of High Technology
industry you specialize in… no matter where you are in
your growth cycle… Quovera has experience with your particular
business challenges.
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