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Business Solutions · Manufacturing

Manufacturing, automated flows and trusted production data.

Automate procurement and logistics flows, trust your production data and steer OEE, for sustainable manufacturing performance.

Automated flows
Trusted data
Steered OEE
Manufacturing challenges

A sector under pressure on flows and data.

Procurement, logistics, production and quality generate massive flows and data — manufacturers must automate their processes and trust their data to hold their costs and performance.

Manual procurement and logistics flows

Orders, receiving and supplier follow-ups rely on scattered manual entries — a source of errors and delays.

Production data quality

Poorly trusted machine readings, work orders and quality checks distort analysis and decision-making.

Information silos

Siloed ERP, MES and line-of-business tools prevent a unified view from procurement to production.

OEE and cost reporting

Steering OEE and the pressure on logistics costs demand reliable, real-time reporting.

Our building blocks for manufacturing

Four building blocks, from order to steered production.

The same Business Solutions foundations — EDM, automation, governance and steering — applied to the concrete use cases of the manufacturer.

EDM · Document Management

Digitise procurement and quality documents

  • Digitisation of orders, delivery notes and quality dossiers
  • Capture of supplier documents and automatic data extraction
  • Legally-binding archiving and traceability of conformity certificates
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Automation & RPA

Automate procurement and logistics flows

  • Procurement and logistics flows automated from order to receiving
  • Checks, reconciliations and supplier reminders run by robots
  • Seamless processing of orders and stock movements
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Data Governance

Trust your production data

  • Trusted item, bill-of-material and supplier master data
  • Quality and traceability of production and control data
  • A unified view of flows, from procurement to production
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Business Intelligence

Steer OEE, quality and supply chain

  • Steering of OEE and scrap rates
  • Analysis of quality and production incidents
  • Supply chain reporting and actionable dashboards
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Illustrated use case

From order to steered production.

A continuous journey where EDM captures, automation executes and data decides — seamlessly from procurement to the shop floor.

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Adam Wolfe, manufacturing manager, places a supplier order on a Monday morning. The flow advances on its own, step after step, through to OEE-steered production.

  1. 1

    Order

    Adam triggers a purchase order from the ERP.

  2. 2

    Documents

    Supplier notes and documents captured and indexed automatically.

    EDM
  3. 3

    Automated flows

    Reconciliations, receiving and reminders run by robots.

    RPA
  4. 4

    Production data

    Machine readings and checks trusted and tied to master data.

    Governance
  5. 5

    OEE & reporting

    OEE, quality and supply chain are tracked in real time.

    BI
  6. 6

    Optimisation

    Deviations are analysed and processes continuously adjusted.

Before manual flows and scattered data After automated flows, data-driven production
What it delivers

Measurable gains for the shop floor and supply chain.

Less manual entry, smooth flows and trusted data — to the benefit of manufacturing performance and cost control alike.

Faster procurement

An end-to-end digital flow, from order to receiving.

Smooth logistics

Reconciliations, receiving and reminders automated, with no re-keying.

Trusted data

Clean, traceable master data and production readings.

Controlled quality

Traced checks and non-conformities caught as early as possible.

Steered OEE

OEE and scrap tracked in real time by BI.

Controlled costs

Fewer logistics incidents and an optimised supply chain.

+15 %
OEE
−40 %
Procurement lead time
+40 %
Data quality
−25 %
Logistics costs
Partners & references

Proven platforms for manufacturing.

We integrate and operate your document and automation foundation with the market's leading vendors.

IBM OpenText BMC
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The same building blocks, applied to every industry.

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