MAC-PAC XE Production Management, Reporting, and Configurator Solutions Featured at Perspectives 2007
Three important new MAC-PAC XE solutions were featured at Perspectives 2007:
- MAC -PAC XE Priority Manager
- Insights for MAC -PAC XE, including a new Inventory Analytics component
- BuyDesign Configurator for MAC -PAC XE
MAC-PAC XE Priority Manager
Now available directly from TDCI on a low cost subscription
basis, MAC-PAC XE Priority Manager (Priority Manager) is
a demand-driven priority management system that can be quickly
deployed using the data already residing in MAC-PAC XE.
Based on the concept of Rapid Priority Management ( RPM ) and winner of the 2003 APICS Award for Innovation, Priority Manager helps manufacturers develop and execute demand-driven production schedules that effectively pull the right material through the factory and supply chain to ensure on-time shipment of customer orders. It helps production and materials personnel achieve this by providing them with better information for decision-making and more time for communication.
Priority Manager delivers a series of queries, reports, and processes that use data already existing within MAC-PAC XE to provide:
- Clear Visibility of True Priorities
- Pull-based Scheduling Support
- Simulation and Analysis
Priority Manager is an expanded version of the OTTO product from Systems Plus that is already in use by a number of MAC-PAC XE users. TDCI has acquired licensing rights to the product and is now making it available through an affordable annual subscription for customers with an active maintenance and support agreement.
Insights for MAC -PAC XE – Inventory Analytics
Inventory Analytics is the newest component of Insights for
MAC-PAC XE (Insights). Inventory Analytics provides the information
you need to optimize your cash investment in inventory, while
maintaining levels that allow you to meet your customer and
supplier demands. With Insights Inventory Analytics, you can
have the information to:
- Optimize inventory levels
- Understand and improve inventory turns
- Spot trends in inventory balances
- Consolidate and analyze inventory transactions
- Find excess, obsolete, and slow moving inventory
Inventory Analytics delivers new data marts for historical inventory information not held in the MAC -PAC XE database along with:
- Two critical views of inventory:
- Inventory balance analysis (quantity and value over time)
- Inventory movement analysis (shipments, receipts, transfers, etc. over time)
- A wide range of pre-defined dimensions such as warehouse, planner, product class and sub-class, commodity code, and many more.
- Pre-defined report templates for quick access and ad-hoc capabilities.
- Optional tailoring assistance to match your unique MAC -PAC XE implementation and business needs.
Other Insights data marts are available for:
- Financial information
- Sales information
- Profitability information
Insights for MAC-PAC XE™ (Insights) is a powerful, user-extensible information access framework that provides:
- Easier access to the valuable information held in your existing MAC-PAC XE system.
- Retention of historical information not previously stored in MAC-PAC XE.
- State-of-the-art information analysis and presentation tools.
That means:
- Faster answers to important questions
- Better, more confident decisions
- More empowered managers and employees
BuyDesign Configurator for MAC-PAC XE
Previewed at Perspectives 2007 and now available, BuyDesign
Configurator for MAC-PAC XE provides Expert Configurator
(EC) users with a migration path to a whole new generation
of easy-to-use configuration and rules development capabilities,
including many powerful new features not possible within EC.
The BuyDesign Configurator for MAC-PAC XE solution includes:
- BuyDesign Configurator, TDCI's advanced point & click browser-based configuration solution, licensed for use within MAC-PAC XE.
- Integration:
- Allows users to link directly to BuyDesign Configurator from existing ‘green screen' MAC -PAC XE order entry functions.
- Enables BuyDesign Configurator to populate the MAC -PAC XE database with configuration results – just as EC does today.
- Migration Utilities that automatically transform and load all standard EC rules to initialize the BuyDesign rules structure.
BuyDesign Configurator for MAC -PAC XE provides:
- Intuitive, easy-to-use product configuration
- Easier to train order entry/customer service personnel.
- Better, faster customer service.
- Intuitive rules development and maintenance
- Easier to train rules developers.
- Faster time to market.
- Powerful, flexible configuration platform
- Protect investment in configuration rules, applications, and processes well into the future.
- Common configuration system across all applications (inside/outside MAC -PAC XE).
Download the BuyDesign Configurator for MAC-PAC XE datasheet >>
If you were not able to attend Perspectives 2007 and you would like more information on any of these new solutions, contact Shelley Horn at shorn@tdci.com or 614-781-2325 x119.