Manufacturing

According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau (April and May 2004), the manufacturing industry is continuing to witness a decrease in new orders, along with an increase in unfilled orders and inventories. These trends indicate an inability to provide real-time order fulfillment, along with decreasing sales and increasing overhead in the form of product storage costs.

Better visibility into the supply chain and operations is therefore critical to manufacturing companies who must make informed decisions daily to affect cost savings. JReport provides a robust reporting solution that helps manufacturers gain valuable insight into their business, helping them to deliver products on time and on budget while managing overhead expenses.

Improved Visibility
With JReport's ad hoc reporting capabilities, manufacturers gain on-demand access to operations data like inventory, order, and forecast information via the Web. JReport is also capable of pulling data from multiple data sources in disparate locations, providing manufacturers with a complete at-a-glance view of all their production facilities. Widespread visibility into operations provides manufacturers with the ability to identify and minimize risk across the supply chain while improving plant performance.

Cost Control
In addition, manufacturers use JReport to retrieve actionable information on shift performance and seasonal trends that enables proactive management of production line operations, inventory, and fulfillment schedules. For example, carefully tracking inventory and order delivery trends empowers manufacturers to enhance just-in-time fulfillment, reduce unnecessary carrying costs, and lower inventory write-down costs.

Read below to see how JReport is being used by leading manufacturers worldwide:

Storeroom Solutions Storeroom Solutions embedded JReport in its Storeroom On Site management system to provide industrial plants with a single solution for improving visibility across their in-plant storerooms. With JReport, Storeroom provides customers with critical reports on plant operations, equipment, and performance. JReport has enabled Storeroom to exceed their goal of providing their customers with a 98% or higher service level. Click here to for full story.

Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. PHI uses JReport to monitor critical business functions like operations, materials handling, and parts replacement and installation for the aircraft they service. With JReport, PHI has deployed a Web-based system that complies with FAA regulations by tracking inventory, parts installed and removed, labor, and aircraft records. In addition, JReport empowers PHI to analyze maintenance requirements and aircraft use schedule in order to ensure timely maintenance and minimize the number of hours an aircraft is unavailable for its customer's use.

Click here to read more JReport success stories.

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