Data Services for Manufacturers
Manufacturers interact with product data in many ways. It describes the raw materials they buy, what they design, what they make, what their customers are asking for, as well as all the parts and services required to keep operations running smoothly.
Without the ability to share complete, consistent and correct product data across disparate systems, manufacturers suffer the major disadvantage of operating at higher expense with less flexibility. Manufacturers who can call up data services to restructure and standardize information on-the-fly are far more able to pursue new opportunities and optimize existing ones — without being limited by ‘disconnects’ in their systems caused by unreliable data.
Silver Creek Systems automates Data Services to enhance:
- Parts Creation & Consolidation - automate the standardization and de-duplication of parts catalogs so that existing parts can be easily found and reused, reducing both engineering and inventory holding costs. In addition, enforcing the same standards in the parts creation process also reduces parts duplication in the engineering design process.
- Parts Search & Substitution - extract and standardize product attributes so that existing parts can be easily found by internal and external users. Attribute standardization can also suggest functional equivalents if the requested part is not available.
- BOM (Bill of Materials) Consolidation - standardize product information and identify common items across BOMs assuring that inventory and procurement efforts are not needlessly duplicated.
- Inventory Management - standardize product information to enable item search by attribute and identify and eliminate duplicate items to reduce holding costs.
- Sourcing & Procurement - standardize and classify procurement records to permit accurate analysis and consolidation of procurement spend to boost bargaining power in contract negotiations.
- GDSN Compliance - extract, extract, standardize and assemble product information from many systems to allow for easy compliance to GDSN mandates.
- PIM (Product Information Management) - match, merge and standardize the system data to assure that a 'single source of truth' truly exists to effectively serve the organization.
- Product Data Translation - automate the translation of product information to facilitate global manufacturing, reporting, and the overall needs of international markets.
- Data Governance - monitor newly entered or imported product data for compliance to standards to trap and flag any suspect data before it enters your system.
