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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Scalability:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">Building an end-to-end, large-scale system can be time consuming and expensive. It often requires a complete change to the manufacturing processes. While some organizations may want to go this route to fast-track deployment to meet short-term goals, it can be very disruptive when done in one fell swoop.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Big impact starts with traceability:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">The implementation of a complete traceability system is not necessary to maintain competitiveness in your market. You can build up your infrastructure gradually as you grow your track and trace capabilities. The implementation of traceability bottom-up is more successful for manufacturing customers. Most processes begin with lean cells before scaling up. With each expansion, more of their manufacturing process is exposed to traceability - adding laser marking or pin marking machines to another operation area, implementing laser marking software, integrating a database. The entire traceability system can adapt to the changing requirements of its users over time.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Stop-Review-Strategize:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">To get the most value out of your traceability system, One should always remind customers to consider their big-picture goals. As they are about to begin building a solution that will serve their needs in the short term but will also grow with their organization over time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Here are a few considerations:</strong></span></p>

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	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">What are your long-term operational goals?</span></li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">What are the trends that could change how your product is made?</span></li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">Are there any new manufacturing regulations or standards you will have to comply with?</span></li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">What changes will happen within your supply chain that could impact how your product is transported or distributed?</span></li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">How are the needs of your customers changing?</span></li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px">Do you anticipate any major changes within your organization?</span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">The production schedules of many manufacturers, even the largest, are based on spreadsheets, but these companies run into problems when they take on new orders. The rigidity of a plan makes it difficult to identify potential problems, like bottlenecks, delays, and inefficiencies, and address them promptly. Consequently, production managers are increasingly creating dynamic or live planning schedules and communicating updates to their teams in real-time using real-time data. Making the process more efficient will ensure that customer orders are processed on time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Understand capacity:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">New orders without a clear understanding of capacity are risky moves. You may end up with bottlenecks and labourers working overtime or machines and people sitting idle. Using a live plan, you gain complete visibility into staffing and equipment, so you can identify areas of over-and under-utilisation. Smart modelling tools can also help you determine future capacity based on constraints when a new contract is being negotiated.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Perform detailed &lsquo;what-if?&rsquo; analysis:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">The use of production planning software makes it easy to evaluate a range of schedule options and create a work plan that utilizes all resources to maximize efficiency and productivity. As soon as an order is accepted, you can quickly check whether it is achievable within the customer&#39;s timeline based on all the parameters that can go wrong on the factory floor.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Capture and act on real-time data:</strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px">In manual reporting methods, long-standing inefficiencies are often not discovered until it is too late. In Shop Floor Data Capture, the use of a handheld or mobile barcode scanner allows information to be captured live during the production cycle, resulting in less double-keying (saving time and reducing error). As a result, it becomes clear what the true cost of production is, including downtime, waste, or rejected items.</span></p>

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