| Inventory and Location Management
Visibility to Reduce Costly Lost Time
MMS provides instantaneous visibility into the location of all parts, materials, and assets such as moulds and dies that are tracked within MMS. Epic Data knows that “missing” and “lost” parts cost manufacturers millions of dollars a year in wasted effort, production line inefficiencies and higher inventory costs.
Most warehouse management systems provide tools to receive, store, and ship items…but lack the detailed, real-time “Material in Motion” tracking and tracing capabilities required to eliminate the waste (time and money) created by lost items.
A part doesn’t have to be lost forever; lost for 30 minutes is enough to create chaos in production. MMS helps reduce those million dollar line stoppages looking for $20 parts critical to the production/repair cycle.
The visibility MMS provides shop floor and operations managers dramatically reduces:
- Items lost in warehouses and on the shop floor.
- Time spent looking for items.
- Time spent re-ordering lost items.
- Time and inventory costs to buffer stock to account for lost items.
- Time spent re-stocking found items.
- Productivity losses from slowing or stopping production.
Integrated Real-Time Inventory Management
MMS’s real-time movement visibility offers a material movement tracking system. Features include:
- Support for a wide variety of data collection devices, including
handheld RF.
- Location information for receipt-in-process (RIP), work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods (FG).
- Multiple storage location support: internal or external warehouses, storerooms, line-side storage, consolidation areas.
- Detailed storage location descriptions: e.g. “on pallet D, in tote F, at Building A, bay 3 nose cone repair site, shelf 3.”
- Proof-of-delivery hand-offs at every stage of movement to create a chain of custody.
- Item movement reported by the second, minute, hour, shift, day.
In addition, MMS integrates with enterprise inventory management and control systems to augment those systems with real-time data for.
- Cycle counting.
- Shelf-life control.
- Traceability: lot, serial, batch.
- Compliance reporting: quality, genealogy, serialization.
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