Today’s business environment is surrounded by a non-stopping data flow. As shows in previous feeds, Synersight allocates ever increasing resources to collect, organize and analyse these data to benefit from the valuable information they would provide.
Also at our organization, through the milestones achieved within each ERP implementation, we keep great effort to ensure that each data entry takes place with appropriate format whenever and wherever is needed, as well as providing collaborators with the most appropriate tools for its management throughout the entire supply chain: From the usual picking operations to supply production lines, to the complex role change within an ongoing commercial operation between customer, buyer, and their financial department. The goal is to ensure that the necessary data is always at hand to carry out the applicable analysis on the supply chain.
The latest common data flow successful automation has been the management of integration projects.
The importance of recording data just in time
Before the irruption of big data, the main challenge for most organizations would be to draw a complete map of their supply chain. However, for some time now, the real challenge is to incorporate data analysis to truly understand what is happening at each point in that chain. This enables decision-making at each point to improve the organization’s governance by focusing specific efforts on each process.
The scope of all Synersight departments results in a very extensive supply chain, which, despite everything, revolves mainly around a main master list: Products.
There is no doubt that customers, manufacturing operations, warehouses, project tasks, etc., are key lists, but all of their records are related in some way to products and what happens to them. Such a statement may not be original, but it highlights how product data becomes increasingly important as it is linked between processes.
Early data managed at engineering, flows smoothly from one process to the next, sometimes even handling the management of returned goods for updates or replacements, after been integrated into the automation of a customer’s goods flow. It can be conceived as a successive record of information to the same product record, much like layering.
Throughout all these stages, we could find organizations such as:
- Engineering
- Manufacturers
- Logistics operators
- Integrators
Synersight brings all of them together.
Goal: Joint flow of data and goods in the integration phase
Synersight’s greatest added value is probably the conception and design of a tailor-made vehicle that can integrate into customers’ production processes to optimize their goods flows.
Basically, we channel the management of the existing product from engineering processes to those of an integrator, recording all the information provided by manufacturers and logistics operators. And back to our facilities and suppliers when after-sales support requires it.
Along with the product in this flow are numerous tasks of study, planning, scheduling, and many others that take place during an integration project.
The joint management of all these elements will provide all the necessary information to understand and plan: costs, selling prices, supply and production deadlines and quantities, and shipments.
Cast
As main actor and manager of the integration process, and responsible for its outcomes, Integrations department has been a crucial part of this progress. Together with the Finance department, they defined the data to be provided and the information to be retrieved.
Along with them, Methods and Logistics departments played a strategic role in ensuring the correct flow of information and materials in demand operations, transportation, and goods transformation, ensuring the generation of accurate financial records.
The Key
The collective awareness of the close interlink between processes: How the milestones established in the conception and release of an engineering project are translated into a successful integration into customer’s internal logistics.
