Manufacturing Cost Reduction and Seradex ERP

If your company wants to survive the onslaught of global manufacturing competition you need to manage costs tighter than ever before.

When you implement Seradex our skilled Project Managers will assist help you learn how costs can be managed in design, production, supply chain, purchasing, information management, and logistics' processes. Additionally, you will learn how to quickly 'find' cash through targeted inventory reduction.


Key ERP Focus Points

Constructing a High Performance Financial, Competitive and Managerial Cost Strategy.


Reducing Production Costs

• Improving production effectiveness
• Reducing production cycle times
• Factory utilization and mixed model production line costs
• Flow production and Just-in-Time (JIT) methods
• Eliminating non-moving Work-in-Process (WIP)
• Eliminating defects and scrap and rework costs with modern quality management tools
• Using value-engineering tools to identify and prioritize waste
• Reducing under utilization costs with improved scheduling
• Cost of material acquisition
• Reducing total material acquisition costs
• Using Blanket Purchase Orders
• Measuring your supplier's lead time, cost and quality performance
• Convert from purchasing to supply chain management


Exchange Inventory for Cash

• How inventory impedes growth
• Slashing inventory fast
• Using Electronic Kanban to get Lean
• Setting safety stock levels, order points, and lot sizes
• Reducing WIP
• The relationship of lead-time to inventory investment