Use AX to Lay the Groundwork to Adopt Lean Manufacturing
Maintaining efficient operations in today’s manufacturing environment isn’t easy, but putting into practice the principles of lean manufacturing can further hone an organization’s competitive edge. Typical manufacturing plants have multiple vendors, multiple interfaces, complex information flows, and asynchronous processing, all of which can lead to limited visibility into orders, materials, and production.
Solution Partners is adept in applying Microsoft Dynamics AX as a framework for lean manufacturing strategies and understanding that to achieve peak performance, manufacturers must systematically identify and eliminate plant floor inefficiencies.
This lean manufacturing strategy requires a four-step cycle of continuous improvement:
- Value-stream-mapping documents each step in the process, its inputs and outputs, across the entire supply chain
- Analysis and modeling identify tasks that could be simplified or cut altogether
- Implementation and continuous improvement actualize change on the plant floor
- Management and reporting evaluates the results and begins the cycle again
