Industry Solutions

Enterprise Apptricity for Manufacturing

Just a few short years ago, manufacturers suffered through one of the most challenging recessions since the industrial revolution, which forced them to conduct widespread layoffs and plant closings to fight falling revenues. Today, manufacturers have begun to rebound and seek ways in which to transcend from operating in sheer survival mode to once again adopting strategies for competitive differentiation. The primary means to gain competitive leverage is in developing highly efficient organizations – both internally and externally – focused on maximizing revenues and minimizing costs. Large, complex manufacturers, in particular, can see vast cost-saving and revenue improvements by improving time to market, on-time delivery of products, and workforce management across distributed organizations.

The potential risk of plants shutting down due to the failure of critical components or understaffing makes automating transactions throughout the supply chain and workforce management imperative for success. Electronic transactions increase visibility and communication across and between organizations as raw materials and components are requisitioned, received, and converted into finished goods and marketed to distributors and retailers.

Whether you are a manufacturer of consumer-packaged goods, medical devices, industrial products or other goods, Enterprise Apptricity for Manufacturing has cost-reducing solutions for you that automate the entire product and transaction flow associated with your Procure-to-Pay or Order-to-Cash cycle. From requisitioning production materials, tracking finished goods, and receiving purchase orders to scheduling shipment and delivery of products to distributors or end users. From purchase orders and direct store delivery invoices to rebates and dispute resolution, and from authorization and approval to accounts payable and settlement – Apptricity automates all of these processes with a web-based interface that your employees and your customers can access from anywhere, anytime.

Enterprise Apptricity for Manufacturing reduces traditional employee data entry, product scheduling and receiving, as well as price and quantity reconciliation time involved in conducting, coordinating and closing all of these transactions to simply confirming information on a computer screen: Was I charged or did I charge the right price? Was the right quantity received or delivered? Transactions that previously took weeks with phone calls, faxes, and mailings can be conducted instantly with real-time, auditable communication.

Savings are not restricted to product flows and transactions alone. Enterprise Apptricity for Manufacturing also offers proven solutions to automate your workforce management challenges and to increase your internal control by optimizing who works on what, when and where. Solutions automate traditional time capture as well as dynamic personnel and task assignment with advanced rules-based compliance. Solutions provide real-time conflict identification and resolution, off balance shift or workload matching, common corporate considerations (such as overtime or paid leave) exception notification