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Page Content SOA Solutions for Manufacturing Organizations
In today's highly competitive global economy, manufacturing success hinges on the ability to discern and quickly respond to customer demand, and on a rapid time- to- market for introducing new or updated products. Moving fast—whether it be in response to a change in customer demand or to a problem on the production floor—necessitates an infrastructure that enables people to access business intelligence where it's needed, when it's needed.
The key to an agile infrastructure is a connected network of manufacturing support systems, both across the organization and across its trading partners. Incompatible IT systems necessitate manual interventions across system boundaries, resulting in redundancy and errors. A lack of visibility across systems increases production time when inventories fall short of production requirements. And a poorly integrated supply chain means that collaboration with trading partners falls short of expectations when critical adjustments need to be made to inventory production and distribution.
While the problem with siloed systems is a top priority to solve, manufacturers do not want to revamp their entire IT infrastructure to achieve it. And any investment that they make in application and system access and connectivity must provide rapid time- to- value and significant return on investment. What is needed, therefore, is an approach to integration that leverages existing IT investments and is flexible enough to keep up with changing business needs. |
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