Improve Productivity

Challenges to Improve Productivity for Brand Owners and Contract Manufacturers

Productivity losses due to inefficient processes and insufficient information systematically reduce the effectiveness of contract manufacturing. External Supply executives and their contract manufacturing and packaging partners deploy cross-functional teams that work diligently with their counterparts to coordinate, communicate and collaborate on production. However, their current tools are emails, faxes, voicemails and physical documents and their current processes are independently run in their own systems. Their cross-company teams are comprised of individuals that assist in a piece of the process and they often have little visibility with the progress of the overall contract manufacturing or packaging process.

Improving contract manufacturing and packaging productivity is now a strategic imperative and tools to support these dedicated professionals need to meet their unique challenges. Portals and B2B links are costly and ineffective at integrating across the external supply network of partners. A new innovative solution has to support both ad hoc collaboration between teams, as well as integrating business processes between companies. Furthermore, the solution has to be ready on demand to add contract partners at will and provide an integrated view across each company’s network of external partner relationships.

How TraceLink can help Brand Owners and Contract Manufacturers to Improve Productivity

• Improve management of day-to-day activities. Get connected to and collaborate with work teams internally, external suppliers and contract partners. Tap into integrated cross-partner and cross-site visibility of production status, inventory and customer service levels. See the big picture on outsourced manufacturing by leveraging lifecycle views of the entire production process.
• Speed purchase order negotiation and production start. Initiate and collaborate on purchase orders with team members, tracking changes, counter-proposals and split lines as needed. Confer with production teams on multiple order components including delivery dates, quantities, line specifications and material supply needs. Get proactively notified when action is required and identify the responsible parties.
• Quickly identify production issues and project exceptions. Receive notifications when production milestones and project deadlines are missed or approvals are overdue. Pinpoint underlying causes by drilling down into purchase order line item details to view status information, material dependencies and other elements.
• Simplify production status and contract partner reporting.Access a built-in display for reporting on-time delivery, order fulfillment accuracy and production cycle times across orders and partners.

Next steps

• Try It Yourself.  In minutes, launch a no obligation FREE TRIAL of our Predictable Supply Suite. Create your own Process Link collaborative team workspace, invite and quickly connect to virtual team members, then experience a new world of production visibility and tracking across your contract manufacturing operations!
• Demo Production Tracking.  Request a guided PERSONAL DEMO of our Production Tracking and ProcessLink solutions. On your schedule, one of our team members will take you through our solution.

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• Discover Production Tracking.  Find out how the TraceLink Production Tracking solution can give you visibility and control throughout the entire contract manufacturing lifecycle. Go Production Tracking
• Experience ProcessLink.  Review TraceLink's innovative approach to connecting you and your internal contract manufacturing teams to your partners both fast and flexibly. Go ProcessLink