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1000% growth in e-kanban services in the past twelve months has
North Carolina-based Datacraft Solutions
(www.datacraftsolutions.com) poised to capture significant
percentage of lean manufacturing organizations business.
According to Sam Bayer, President of Datacraft Solutions, “We
have seen explosive growth from major manufacturing enterprises
with Lean initiatives. From Wiremold to dj Orthopedics to KOYO
to Outokumpu, our e-kanban system, Signum, is being used
throughout North America.”
Fax Kaban is not Efficient and not Lean
At ten minutes per fax, someone is spending 3.5 hours per day in
administration time. That inefficiency results in less time to
utilize more suppliers or improve the relationships with
existing suppliers.
Furthermore, even if 99% of those faxes are trouble free
procurement signals, four faxes per month are going to be
problematic and dilute the entire rationale for a lean
manufacturing operation. Suppliers claim they did not receive
the fax kanban; suppliers cannot make the shipment date
requested and expedited shipping fees are incurred, or worse,
there will be a stockout which will negatively impact customer
service levels.
Bayer noted, “Signum, our electronic kanban system gives
manufacturers a heads up to which of those four faxes might be
the problem and then frees you up to deal with them because our
system has dealt with the other 396 kanban signals with zero
effort.” Bayer also noted that process improvement with existing
suppliers will further reduce lead times and inventory levels
and bring more suppliers onto the system.
The leader in e-kanban is Datacraft Solutions. With more than
1000% growth in the past twelve months, Datacraft Solutions
anticipates a continued rate of growth throughout 2008.
Datacraft Solutions www.datacraftsolutions.com Sam Bayer e-mail
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