Enterprise Solutions Practice

Global Automation Partners (GAP) Enterprise Solutions is built from the ground up to address common business issues for manufacturers. Typical solutions include ERP systems and / or multi-site MES implementations with tight integration that results in a flexible, responsive, agile and efficient enterprise. ESP offers a single service provider interface; i.e. "top floor" to "shop floor" to achieve the real-time enabled enterprise.

Typical issues that GAP can address are:

• Current systems rate limit growth
• Lack of visibility of enterprise performance
• Customer responsiveness (on-time delivery) & production agility (quick change-over)
• Regulatory compliance (FDA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.)
• Time to market and cost
• Inadequate integration to corporate or partners
• Inefficient asset utilization
• Staff shortage
• IT cost containment

GAP is using a value-driven methodology that incorporates the principles of solution delivery:

• People - organizational impact
• Process - optimize processes according to best-practices
• Technology - apply the appropriate level of technology

Organized around the phases of the solution delivery Value Curve, each phase of the GAP methodology has a clear purpose and scalable deliverables. Using proven, methodical, practical, scalable and effective work practices, GAP Enterprise Solutions delivers high-value with predictable results. The process begins with stated business objectives and ends with beneficial solutions installed and performing in your business.

Some of the Potential benefits

• Cost reductions - inventory, people, and cycle time.
• Streamlined Business Processes - faster new product introduction (npi), new customer compliance, and data services from better tracking and genealogy.
• Market improvements - tuning the manufacturing operation to be extremely responsive to actual demand allowing capture of market share without increasing costs
• Tighter financial controls - for financial compliance declaration as well as other forms of compliance reporting (EH&S).
• Quality Operational Data - having more consistent and quality data can drive continuous improvement strategies by helping to establish consistent performance metrics and measures to gauge the business.
• Improved Operations Support - for streamlined sourcing and procurement processes (e.g. centralized buying model) and for closed-loop sales and operations planning processes to ensure the organization does not overpromise and under-deliver to customers.
• Automated business processes - such as invoicing and sales and purchase orders in and out of one system.