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Your Industry

If your business strives to meet the precise needs of your customers through products and services that make you stand out from the competition, then our profile, product and philosophy will ensure that we have a positive impact on your business. We have specific market solutions for businesses in configure to order and dimensional manufacturing.

The breadth and depth of Evolution functionality coupled with its inherent flexibility have ensured its appeal to many types of industry. So if your business falls into any of the following categories we have a solution for you and reference sites to support our claims.

Aerospace

Evolution is ideally suited to the hi-tech, make-to order characteristics of the aerospace sector. A powerful product configuration module, engineering change control and seamless integration with CAD and CAM systems are just some of the features that can help you operate competitively in this sector’s complex supply network. With downward pressure on lead times and constant change brought about through rapid advances in electronics, Evolution can help you manage long-term projects and large inventories, as well as support complex maintenance repair and overhaul, and conform to increasingly rigorous safety, procurement and part replacement regulations

Automotive

Optimisation of the interaction between companies in the supply chain is delivered through the use of bar coding, web-portals and EDI/XML messaging. Co-operation and smooth supply chain interaction is the result. Automatic stock replenishment raises fulfilment reliability and by using Evolution forecasting options you can also optimise stocks levels of components with longer delivery timeframes. The calculation of optimum security stock levels based on historical consumption patterns and desired service levels helps deliver efficiency and reliability.

Configure to Order

At the heart of the Evolution CTO solution is a fully integrated, rules based product configurator which intelligently builds customer specific bills of material and associated manufacturing routes from a validated selection of product options and variations presented in an interactive and easy to use format.

The Configurator automatically constructs:-

• The unique structure (BOM)
• The operations with there specific operation times and instructions
• Special tools and resources needed
• The costing structure of the unique configuration
• The sales price based on the chosen options

Converter and Flexible Packaging

Converter and flexible packaging manufacturers leverage the sophisticated inventory management and production control capabilities that are mandatory in “slitting & cutting” manufacturing environments. So if your business involves cutting and slicing raw materials, converting those products across multiple dimensions into finished products we have a fully developed solution to deliver against the peculiarities of your industry type.

Food and Beverage

Evolution can help you meet the demand for product innovation and variety without eroding your profit margins. Whatever the complexity or speed of change of recipe, pricing or packaging options, Evolution allows you to respond instantly to customer demand, while its dynamic customer relationship management (CRM) module allows you to manage customer relationships with ongoing surety. Sophisticated business analytics can give you a three dimensional view of your business, so you can analyse KPIs in real time, at the touch of a button - and then act on that information with complete confidence. Conformity to industry regulations is supported by Evolution lot traceability, whilst its distribution and warehouse management suite make sure delivery loads are maximised and late deliveries avoided.

Machinery and Equipment

Evolution can not only be implemented to support the most demanding of lean manufacturing environments, helping you drive down costs, but also allows you to respond rapidly to international market fluctuations. It means you can stay ahead of the competition through innovation at the same as maintaining the highest possible quality standards.

Textile

Evolution caters for the unique requirements of the textile industry including:-

• One-to-many processing (small number of raw materials, multitude of products)
• Process complexity and variety (recognises unique production parameters: weave patterns, dye recipes, print design)
• Long lead times (creates the need for careful inventory and forecasting)
• A multitude of units (wide variety of handling units from rolls and cases to pallets and sets).
• Garment/product variety (wide variety of colours and sizes for models. Seasonal based production requires unique management approach).