Manufacturing Industry
The foundation for peak performance: Microsoft collaboration framework and partner solutions power demand-driven value chains.
Manufacturing Business Technology, December, 2005 by Michel, Roberto
Being a successful contract manufacturer takes engineering and production-management prowess. It also requires mastering the art of collaborating with value chain partners--the ability to understand all customer requirements and pass them along to everyone with a role in fulfilling them. And all this must be done in a way that results in the shortest-possible lead times, and the lowest-possible operating costs.
Nu Visions Manufacturing, a Springfield, Mass.-based contract manufacturer serving electronics OEMs, is changing the art of value chain collaboration into a science, using tools such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 to automate exception handling, alerting the appropriate people to take quick corrective action when a situation arises that might...
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