Production Tracking

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Production Tracking Issues and Challenges
With increased pressure to deliver products faster, maintain less inventory, and reach growth and margin goals, companies need to be more agile and work closer with their supply chain partner network. Without an automated supply chain solution that provides visibility and facilitates collaboration between sourcing teams and suppliers, it is easy to fall short.
With consistent and timely access to supplier information, the production of finished goods is streamlined with the ability to fully track orders and identify any material delays. Having access to accurate production information results in the ability to identify potential delays earlier in the process and respond more cost effectively to meet customer demands.

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How Amber Road Can Help
Amber Road’s Production Tracking solution enables the real-time exchange of critical milestone data during pre-production and production. This results in the ability to accurately answer questions like:
What orders or SKUs am I tracking?
Where are my goods in the production cycle?
Who did the work and has my goods?
How many units are at each stage in the production or shipment process?
The configurable Excel-like worksheets can be used by various organizational teams to maintain control. By providing direct access to the entire trading partner network, companies can collaborate in real-time with internal and external teams, reducing the potential for production delays and ensuring cycle time impacts are minimized. Additionally, sourcing teams can progress from shared visibility to shared collaboration, so that all teams are working towards the common goals of developing quality products at the lowest cost and optimal speed to market.
Features Benefits

Production Tracking

View all production milestone completions with updates directly from the supplier
Receive alerts when PO’s are in danger of delays or other issues
Easily create different views for each user group; designers, merchandisers, etc.
Clearly identify past due events with color coded field status
Simplify data entry with batch updates
Access configurable templates for managing Work in Process (WIP) events and status
Manage task dependencies and durations with templates
Automatically calculate event due dates by time & action calendars
Manage events on a daily, weekly or monthly basis utilizing the calendar views
Flexibly export reports in HTML, PDF and MS Excel formats