Manufacturing

Manufacturers need to compete better in the new world economy. The amount of manual work required for MRP, Production, and Sales forecasting functions puts undo pressures on your resources and increases the cost of doing business. In addition, these systems are typically not integrated with each other or with accounting, preventing you from getting the information you need. The RSC Group has worked with many manufacturers to provide them with a solution to realize the following benefits.

• Improve customer loyalty by meeting their ever increasing demands for better quality, faster delivery, lower cost, and more product variations.
• Quickly plan your demand to avoid shortages that upset your customers, and overages that tie up your cash.
• Use the web to collaborate with your customers to create better products and reduce your internal costs.
• Provide your sales force with visibility into production so that they can set accurate delivery dates.
• Allow production and sales to communicate changing production priorities so that you can keep your best customers happy.
• Provide production with accurate sales forecasts to effectively plan inventory and capacity.
• Control your production costs by eliminating waste, cutting down transport time and reduce set up time.
• Optimize through put by collaborating better with your supply chain.
• Achieve better cost control and inventory management through a fully integrated system that reduces redundant effort from your resources.
• Improve the accuracy of your product costing to maximize your margins.
• Optimize your buying power and increase vendor performance.

RSC has spent considerable effort to fully understand the challenges and opportunities in the following manufacturing environments; Food & Beverage, Clothing, High Tech, Agriculture, Life Sciences, Forestry, Plastics, and Mining.

Microsoft Business Solutions provides a completely integrated manufacturing system that is based on significant industry knowledge and research. Microsoft has been cited by industry specialists and independent researchers as having the best functionality to price ratio in the industry. Here is a short list of some of the available features;

• Integrated Accounting
• Production Scheduling
• Demand Planning/Forecasting
• Inventory Management and Control
• Capacity Planning
• Reporting and Business Intelligence (WIP and Production Costing)
• Integrated Customer and Vendor Web Portal
• Customer Relationship Management
• EDI
• Automated Data Capture Systems (Bar-code and RFID)

RSC has helped many manufacturersin the following industires achieve their business objectives.

Apparel and Textile
Baby and Infant Furniture
Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment
Cement
Construction and Building Products
Electrical Equipment
Food and Beverage
Lighting Fixtures
Machinery
Material Handling Equipment
Ornamental and Architectural Metalwork
Paper and Sawmills
Plastics
Railroad Rolling Stock
Signs
Watches and Clocks
Wetsuits
Windows, Doors and Mirrors
Wiring Devices