The manufacturing industry
Manufacturers live and die by their ability to maintain competitive advantage and profitability, but more so lately as they are buffeted by the economic downturn. To remain viable, Manufacturing is performing an even tougher balancing act –– decreasing costs further while keeping the same high or higher levels of customer service. Electronic document management (EDM) is enabling companies to trim costs and better serve customers by way of increasing operational effectiveness and efficiencies.
How EDM helps manufacturing up the competitive ante
• Decrease time and cost associated with managing corporate policies, and compliance and certification programs
• Support lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other production and quality initiatives
• Easily integrate electronic data and documents with ERP, MRP, SCM, and e-business applications
• Streamline and expedite forms-based order fulfillment, shipping and receiving, and account payables and receivables transactions
• Increase service levels by providing immediate answers with simultaneous web access to all documents related to orders, customer requests, inquiries, and issue resolution
• Reduce cycle time and decrease time to market by enabling in-house and multi-location collaboration and communications
• Support sales success by bundling and e-distributing, customer-specific data, documents, and customized reports
• Automatically document and archive engineering change process management
About S4i Express
S4i Express is a fully integrated System i report and document management system that automates all document processing enterprise wide. Because of its scalability, completeness, and cost/value benefit, S4i Express is the preferred System i EDM offering. Most organizations realize ROI in less than a year and some as soon as 3 months.
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