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Streamline ™ - Software to Drive the Lean Factory
Streamline software drives lean manufacturing initiatives and integrates the factory into a real-time supply chain.
Streamline is software by a company founded by manufacturing experts who have deep experience in converting factories into responsive, demand-driven, profit-making enterprises. With the Internet, the speed of doing business is forever changed and the old rules and tools no longer apply. Forecast based planning alone can no longer meet the needs of Internet powered customer demand. In order to complete, companies must convert their manufacturing operations into a strategic weapon or outsource it to those who can.
Streamline begins with the factory, by providing a software structure that enables factories to implement and maintain lean initiatives that have been proven to reduce inventories by as much as 90%; increase labor productivity by more than 30%; improve customer satisfaction by increasing on-time deliveries in excess of 99%; eliminate shop-floor bottlenecks with real-time, demand-driven, dynamic scheduling and lot-size optimization; and provide management with real-time factory metrics that empower them to make real-time decisions that impact the bottom line.
Suppliers collaborate directly with the Streamline enabled enterprise, obtaining real-time orders and change-orders driven directly by the customer's demand and manufacturing execution, resulting in a stable flow from order to on-time delivery. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is simplified, and suppliers deliver the right quantity of materials to the factory when they are required, reducing in-process inventories and safety stock to the bare minimum.
With Streamline, customers place their orders directly with the factory and receive accurate delivery promises based on real factory capabilities. The customer tracks the order in the factory, knowing with confidence that it is in process. Streamline powered competitive factories offer their customers flexible product configurations and options, true "have-it-your-way" manufacturing, without sacrificing manufacturing performance.
Streamline is the industry's first software that drives manufacturing to a core competence and integrates the customer and supplier into a real-time supply chain. It seamlessly integrates with enterprise planning systems, enabling them to focus on long range capacity planning, leaving shop-floor execution and real-time demand response to the Streamline software.
Accolade ™
Accolade software for New Product Development provides flexible, web-based software that helps you manage your portfolio and automates your existing NPD process.
Process Automation - Use Accolade to automate the new product development process you've implemented in your organization, or simply adopt it as a comprehensive, turnkey process solution.
Project Pipeline - View the resources and the status of all activities related to a project through the project home page.
- Integrated Decision-Support Project Research - Built-in access to critical market, technology and competitive intelligence allows you and your team to make informed project decisions from concept to launch.
- Improve Collaboration & Communication - Communicate roles, responsibilities, open and completed actions to your project team through a project home page facilitating collaboration and team interaction.
- Leverage Key Learnings - Capture and reuse project information to avoid duplicating work or repeating developmental mistakes. Strengthen processes and build intellectual property for future efforts.
- Benchmark against Best Practices - Evaluate your projects at an early stage to assess the likelihood of product success. Accolade's diagnostic and screening tool has an 85% success rate in predicting new product winners and losers.
- Strengthen Resource Management - Forecast resource requirements based on those requested, allocated and in use for all projects.