subject: How to Make More Profit from Your Manufacturing Business [print this page] How to Make More Profit from Your Manufacturing Business
Like every other business on the planet, manufacturing businesses are also looking to make rapid strides in business growth by mobilizing their business process. However, if mobility is required the most in any sphere of the manufacturing business, that is supply chain management. Now days, manufacturing businesses are primarily looking for relationship management for successful collaboration along the supply chain and strategic partnerships and secondly coordination and integration of different functions and activities to enhance overall supply chain performance.
To achieve that, manufacturing companies worldwide are adopting mobile supply chain management (mSCM) applications for significant cost reductions, supply chain responsiveness and competitive advantage. According to Cambridge, Mass based AMR Research, the market for supply chain applications is expected to reach $7.9 billion by 2011. Mobile SCM has proved to be a convenient, time saving, and highly accurate means of capturing data on movements of goods, of checking, tracking and monitoring tasks and providing up-to-date information on process status. There are solutions, which can improve worker productivity, support existing manufacturing & distribution processes and increase customer satisfaction by improving inventory accuracy, shipment confirmation and quality tracking.
Manufacturing businesses today have two choices regarding their mSCM solution. They can either go for the pre built ones, which may or may not serve their specific business needs. The other one is however of a custom mobile supply chain management application. Fortunately, there are hosts of professional mobile app development companies, which develop custom mobile SCM apps that strengthen all strategic, tactical and operational levels of activities involved in the supply chain management. These companies have the expertise to develop apps for vehicle tracking, dispatch, route analysis, warehouse operations, facilities, depot management, routing, scheduling and many other SCM related solutions.The vehicle tracking apps they develop with GPS technology integration allow businesses to track and manage vehicles through their mobile device from anywhere and at any time. It ensures total transparency in the delivery system and enables monitoring every single movement of the vehicle used for the delivery. The dispatch, warehouse operations, depot management apps let mobile employees in the manufacturing businesses to get on-demand access to corporate data while on the road through GPS with wireless technology for better and simple management. Moreover, these companies with mSCM app development experts with years of experience can develop bar code apps, which ensure accurate, up to date inventory information by using bar code scanning through employee mobile devices for automatic data entry and will naturally increase the accuracy in the company's inventory management system. These professional mobile development companies can develop applications for dispatch also that communicate instant shipment confirmation information in to the cell phone. These companies also understand the fact that mobile customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications are inseparably related to supply chain management. This is why they are equally capable of developing them as per a business' requirement.
This is certain that, manufacturing businesses adopting the right solution to mobilize their supply chain are surely going to maximize their profit. All they need is a professional, certified and experienced mobile development company to develop their custom solution.
