When offered with two tough and often conflicting choices, we invariably tend to choose the more difficult one, ignoring the simple one thinking it might never work.
With all the latest technology available at their disposal, most process manufacturing companies still choose to work on complicated manufacturing ERP systems.
Instead of making a manufacturer’s life easier, they often mess things up with overly complex technology, convoluted workflows, cluttered interfaces, and superfluous features, etc.
The issues mentioned above become particularly significant when the employees in the manufacturing company try to work through approval processes, which often are the main point of control in any ERP system and determine how workflows or graduates from one person to another.
Be it purchase orders, employee timesheets, leave requests, or expense reports, if your process manufacturing organization is spending unnecessary time on approvals, you’re in the process losing out on valuable time that your team could instead invest on growth, developing new ideas, and keeping the competitors at bay.
Once these issues are identified, it is important for the process manufacturing businesses to address them before they hamper the operations and bog down the workflows.
So when the different set of needs of process manufacturers could not be met by software that was built to follow the production on assembly lines, the dedicated ERP solutions for process manufacturing industry came into existence.
The methodology uses Bills of Materials (BOMs), and assembles components along with a routing.
Process manufacturing items include food, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, cosmetics and paints to name a few- the products that are the result of recipes and formulations which when mixed, change the composition of the original raw material and cannot be disassembled.
In discrete manufacturing, the products are BOM based, and can be broken down as they are assembled by nuts, bolts, brackets, wires, etc.
In discrete manufacturing, the production follows a route, such as an assembly line, where identical products are duplicated as the raw materials used to create these products are the same from the first job to the next.
On the other hand, in process manufacturing, the ingredients are blended or refined in batches and manufactured using formulas/recipes.
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It is not just the pervasive presence that makes the cloud a game changer for manufacturing, it is the integration achieved through cloud adoption that makes it lead transformer.From the first moving assembly line of Ford Motors more than a hundred years ago, to the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, automobile manufacturing has undergone changes that have added massive value to the products.
Most importantly, as a tech dependent sector, industries that embraced innovation and technology continue to taste success.
Cloud – the enabler of solutions
Among the various reasons that make cloud imperative, five factors standout as compelling.
A commercial reality, globalization has helped manufacturers tap into expertise and cheaper overheads, to stay competitive.
The need to integrate all operations into a unified process makes cloud the only infrastructure that can meet all needs.
Originally posted on 3i Infotech - Orion ERP
