BPM Working in Manufacturing, Retail, and Distribution
Your Challenges
Responsiveness, collaboration, innovation—these are the hallmarks of world-class organizations across the supply chain. Companies simply must be highly responsive to customers, foster collaboration with partners and suppliers, and innovate to gain competitive advantage.
To meet these goals, many organizations have deployed enterprise applications, such as ERP and SCM, but have only realized mixed results. Why? Leveraging these applications for business improvement and competitive advantage must involve looking at how these systems are used—how they interact with, and streamline, the unique business processes that only your company owns.
Your business processes are what link enterprise systems together for true connectivity. Processes must be designed to enhance productivity and competitiveness in a way that works within your environment. For example, improving the way you recognize and handle exceptions by streamlining and automating the process can distinguish you from competitors. Other process-centric demands include:
Achieving and maintaining ISO 9000 certification
Fine-tuning processes via Six Sigma or Lean to eliminate product defects
Improving asset utilization to get more productivity from existing equipment and personnel
Extending service offerings to widen your revenue channel
Leveraging point-of-sale data to learn more about your customers
Managing promotions and new store openings
Automating manual operations to reduce errors and guarantee process consistency.
Our Solutions
Metastorm understands the unique needs of manufacturing, retail, and distribution organizations and how they can better succeed with efficient process execution. Metastorm’s proven, enterprise-level BPM platform is the foundation that enables companies to design and deploy processes that increase output and manage resources in an unprecedented manner. Metastorm’s BPM technology and proven expertise is helping organizations around the world achieve regulatory compliance, reduce risks, enhance customer service, retain and acquire customers, as well as tie together silo processes and systems, and do more with less.
The Metastorm BPM suite provides an open, standards-based framework by which designers and implementers can easily integrate external applications or application components. With easy-to-use tools for modeling, designing, managing, and changing processes, business users own, maintain and optimize their processes. And, the platform provides all the components needed to support a continuous process improvement cycle using BPM. Finally, the Metastorm approach offers rapid design and deployment with complete control over continuous improvements based on insight into how the business is running.