Lean Manufacturing Initiatives Mandate Digital Kanban Results

Key Benefits of Digital Kanban include: 

• Further Reduce Inventory: Detailed reporting and increased visibility make resizing and elimination of excess buffers easy and accurate. 
• Further Reduce Stock Outages:  All members of the supply chain can proactively address upcoming changes without having to wait until the outages occur.
• Dramatically Increase Buyer/Planner Capacity:  Remove the burden of creating, transmitting and managing routine replenishment communications, freeing Buyers/Planners to handle critical exceptions and continuously improve supplier relationships. 
• Simplify Management:  Easy to use and maintain, requiring very little maintenance to keep inventory turns friction-free, and making real-time data easily accessible. 

Signum is the Digital Kanban tool from Datacraft Solutions, Inc. (www.datacraftsolutions.com) based in Durham, North Carolina.    According to Founder Matthew Marotta, “Datacraft Solutions’ Internet-based on-demand delivery platform offers key benefits from the very beginning of an implementation – namely, the elimination of lengthy, complicated and expensive infrastructure upgrades before a company can even begin to see positive ROI.  There is simply no faster or easier way to begin exploiting the power of Digital Kanban in a lean manufacturing operation.”  

Additional Digital Kanban benefits include: 

• Coordinate All Users:  Operations Managers, Buyer/Planners, Material handlers – all have the visibility needed to get the job done. 
• Utilize Industry-Standard Barcodes:  Automate the replenishment process with a single action, generating the necessary signals, notifications and alerts throughout the supply chain. 
• Integrate With Database & MRP/ERP Systems:  Integrate with existing databases like Oracle, SQL, and Sybase and with MRP/ERP applications like SAP, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft. 
• Streamline Implementation:  ASP model provides global visibility into the plant floor from anywhere in the world, with nothing to install and no software to maintain. 

Datacraft Solutions

www.datacraftsolutions.com

Kelly Pryor

800-819-5326