subject: Ultriva e-Kanban Leader Offers Customer Webinars [print this page] Author: Thomas Cutler Author: Thomas Cutler
Ultrivas Lean Execution Suite consists of modules like Customer Kanban, Supplier Kanban, Internal Kanban, SBR, Lean Production and OEE, which allow manufacturing companies to systemize, sustain, and scale lean disciplines across the organization. Ultriva's flagship product, Collaborative Electronic Kanban, eliminates stock-outs while reducing inventory levels up to 75%. Ultriva modules are in use in more than 130 plants worldwide, incorporating more than 5,000 suppliers, transacting over 1.5 billion dollars of inventory at industry leaders such as AGCO, CNH, Emerson, IR-Trane, McKesson, Rexnord, and ThermoFisher. Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva, (www.ultriva.com) announced that Customer Webinars are available at the website including: Emerson Lean - from Strategy to Execution Hear how world-class manufacturer Emerson Electric uses Lean thinking following a "Ready, Aim, Fire" model to reduce cycle times and remove waste. Through the years, Emerson has expanded the scope of Lean from shop floor, to total value stream focus, to enterprise-level thinking. This archived event, featuring Emerson's VP of Manufacturing Ray Keefe, tells you about the company's best practices for Lean; the electronic kanban at Emerson; and the best places to implement pull-based strategies. Lean Initiative Fires Up Customer Satisfaction for American Water Heater. Join Rick Shuppert, VP Materials and Distribution for American Water Heater Co. in a Manufacturing Business Technology Webinar to hear how American Water Heater warmed up to its customers by reducing inventory, increasing on-time deliveries, and squeezing out operations expenses. American Water Heater Co. is making a habit out of collecting Supplier of the Year awards from its best customers. And it can attribute that recognition to the way it works with its own suppliers. A pull-based inventory system based on technology from Ultriva, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard and supported by processes that constantly exchange real-time information with suppliers-allowed American Water Heater to grow much faster than the competition, even while increasing inventory turns by 20 percent. What's more, on-time delivery is hitting 99.5 percent-a number that obviously means happier customers. Ultriva helps firms make the move to Lean manufacturing in practical, incremental steps. Whether the starting point is distribution, factory, or supply, each step improves flexibility and optimizes resources to bring you closer to a profitable, customer-centered manufacturing model. To hear the entire podcast go to http://www.podcasternews.com/bpp/5196/industry-report-narayan-laksham-ultriva-inc/. Ultriva www.ultriva.com Cindy McGowan pr@ultriva.com 408.248.9803 About the Author:
Professional Marketing Firm for the Manufacturing Community and Manufacturing Journalist to most manufacturing magazines
