In the global economic marketplace, manufacturers can no longer rely on low prices, high quality and on-time delivery alone to keep them on top. These attributes, advantages a decade ago, are now just requirements to stay in the game. Manufacturers face increasing globalization, more competition than ever, and technology-enabled customers whose demands reflect much greater knowledge of the marketplace and higher expectations for service and delivery.

More dynamic inventories to track and move, a greater number of products to generate, numerous suppliers to negotiate with and quality standards to maintain have created an ever-increasing need to provide accurate and timely Business Intelligence as a foundation to analyze and guide the business.

Defect Analysis: Quality control is critical to the success of any manufacturing company. Through the use of data mining techniques, manufacturers are able to identify the characteristics surrounding defective products, such as day of week and time of the manufacturing run, components being used and individuals working on the assembling line. By understanding these characteristics, changes can be made to the manufacturing process to improve the quality of the products being produced. High-quality products lead to improved reputation of the organization within its industry and help to drive sales. In addition, profitability improves through the reduction of return materials allowances and field service calls.

Information Quality: Information quality issues exist throughout the supply chain. One reason for this is that manufacturers depend on data from suppliers, contract manufacturers, distributors, retailers and consumers in order to effectively and efficiently source raw materials, forecast demand, make and market their products. Very seldom will manufacturers have control over the quality and format of this external data. Through incremental improvements in data quality throughout the supply chain, however, manufacturers can realize significant performance improvements, including improved speed and efficiency of product manufacture, improved ability to perform demand analysis, improved channel partner effectiveness through timely and accurate product and pricing information, and improved customer satisfaction through timely and accurate customer information.

Motio can help ensure that your mission critical data is accurate and timely by augmenting your reporting environment with versioning, tracking and verification capabilities. These solutions are focused on helping our clients take advantage of emerging BI technology so that they can maintain their competitiveness on an ever increasing scale.

To find more about how Motio can help you take advantage of emerging technologies in the BI space, contact our Sales Department via web form or by phone at 1-877-362-8708.