Relationships Can Flourish by Going Online
Another of Sword Microsystems' clients managed inventory for several large companies, issuing releases regularly and replenishing inventory as scheduled. The largest company wanted to electronically ex-change forecast data with the client in order to compare usage and production schedules. The problem, explained Wakefield, was that production schedules were being maintained by three different schedulers in various forms of Excel, and the production status was only available by walking back to the press and asking for it. "Since the data needed to exist in a single, consistent manner and location in order to be accessible via the Web upon request, standardization and central management needed to occur before the e-business interfaces could be provided to the customer," he said.
- People:
- Out Cutler
- Steve Wakefield
- Places:
- Florida