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glovia.com Electronic Kanban Automatically Provides Manufacturers With Demand-Driven Materials and Inventory Replenishment
Additional Functionality Improves Efficiency of Material Movement to Help Reduce Inventories and Eliminate Shortages
Long Beach, Calif., May 24, 2005 - Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu and a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order and high volume manufacturers, announced today, from the 2005 Glovia International User Group Conference in Long Beach, California, the availability of glovia.com Electronic Kanban, a new module that provides manufacturers with automatic demand-driven replenishment of materials and inventory to help reduce inventories and eliminate shortages.
glovia.com Electronic Kanban expands upon the essence of Kanban, the premise of having material only delivered to a location when it is needed so that no excess inventory is created. The new module can be executed as an integral part of the supply chain as it provides the ability to monitor consigned and line side inventory levels and establish triggers to automatically replenish inventory when a predefined minimum for each inventory level has been reached.
With Electronic Kanban, the triggering of the Kanban pull is done automatically enabling the user to focus on the physical material movement while the system manages the data movement using established triggers that are executed when a pre-defined minimum is reached. glovia.com knows to create a Kanban pull for the predefined quantity of material from the stores location to the predefined location on the factory floor.
The process can also be expanded to include open communication with a manufacturer's customers and suppliers. glovia.com Electronic Kanban establishes the same auto-triggers for additional material from suppliers as it would internally with the system managing the data manipulation by triggering the proper initiator to the supplier. This can also be done for maintaining supplies at a customer site for which glovia.com maintains the quantity and triggers a Sales Order Deliver Line when the predefined minimum is reached.
"As growing amounts of work become redistributed to suppliers and trading partners it has become increasingly important to expand Kanban beyond the internal manufacturing technique used to improve the efficiency of material movement," states Randy Ehler, Executive Vice President, Research & Development and Products for Glovia International. "glovia.com Electronic Kanban takes Kanban to the next level adding significant value to the supply chain and supporting efforts for Lean Manufacturing operations by optimizing efficiency and cost effectiveness of materials and their movement - whether it be internal, with suppliers and trading partners, or with customers."
Additional Functionality
glovia.com Electronic Kanban provides important inventory control benefits, including:
- Full automation - reduces work and increases accuracy
- Minimizes amount of inventory on hand at any time
- Auto replenishment to vendors - reduces planning and purchase order cycle
- All processes driven/signaled by customer consumption
- Excellent customer service with minimum effort due to accumulated supply at back end
- Can work with multiple companies across multiple continents
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About Glovia International
Glovia International, Inc., a subsidiary of Fujitsu (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6702), is one of the world's most experienced and solidly backed providers of extended ERP solutions for businesses of any size - from small and mid-sized companies to global enterprises. The powerful and flexible Glovia ERP suite, glovia.com, provides for the unique needs of engineer-to-order, make-to-order, high volume and mixed-mode manufacturing environments through comprehensive, end-to-end functionality for the entire product lifecycle. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Glovia has helped manufacturers to cut costs, improve productivity, and meet customer demands for over 30 years. For more information, please visit www.glovia.com or call (800) 223-3799
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com
