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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff   | Abstract: | Manufacturing-centric provider of on-demand ERP and MES products covers a wide swath of functions and customization. |
In the late 1980s, Rob Beatty got an assignment from the tier-one automotive supplier for which he worked: Improve the quality of parts being produced, reduce changeover time, increase the effective life of tooling, and improve customer satisfaction by increasing on-time delivery. Beatty decided what the company needed was a new system, based on relational database technology, that could help the company track and manage shop-floor processes. Once deployed, the system helped the supplier jump from last place to first on the lists of preferred suppliers maintained by many automotive OEMs. Fast forward a decade and a half, and that original, highly focused system has matured and expanded into the Plexus Online on-demand software system, a set of 350 modules used by a wide range of manufacturing companies to do everything from production scheduling to manufacturing execution, shop-floor control, quality management, traceability, inventory tracking, accounting, CRM, e-commerce, and business intelligence. [Click to continue] |