Attunity InFocus provides a uniquely effective and adaptive solution for managing performance improvement initiatives, helping firms achieve supply chain excellence. Using InFocus, managers gain control by tracking performance, viewing relevant information, and coordinating all activities related to their improvement initiatives.
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Managing Performance Improvement Initiatives
As competition becomes stronger than ever before, continuous improvement is an imperative for supply chain companies in order to gain a competitive edge, improve quality, lower costs, and increase margins.
Performance improvement initiatives take many forms and objectives, such as six sigma, lean manufacturing, perfect order delivery, and TQM, all of which require close management supervision and guidance to ensure success.
To achieve this, supply chain executives and managers need to pro-actively monitor, control, and coordinate a complicated range of activities within their business environment. They have to sift through information, often from many different sources, as well as coordinate resources internally and with partners.
Staying on top of it all is a daunting challenge and a critical one in a world where competition keeps getting fiercer. Effective management of performance improvement initiatives provides managers with real-time visibility and early warning to pending issues, as well as the tools necessary to control and coordinate activities to ensure alignment and meeting business objectives.
Attunity InFocus for Performance Improvement Initiatives
Attunity InFocus allows managers to drive and control performance improvement initiatives across diverse teams and disparate information silos.
With InFocus, users leverage high-impact applications that provide seamless access to performance information from heterogeneous systems, “in-context” collaboration, and end-to-end activity management, to improve the visibility, control, and coordination of performance improvement initiatives.
The following diagram depicts the main components of the InFocus solution:
- Information Integration
Having developed leading information integration software for more than 10 years, Attunity rapidly brings together information from heterogeneous systems in real-time, including legacy systems, databases and data warehouses, web sources, and unstructured data (e.g. email).
- Performance Tracking
Attunity InFocus provides real-time and historic visibility of performance metrics based on information from heterogeneous systems. Performance information can be displayed using advanced gauges and charts to quickly highlight status and trends.
- Alert Notifications
Attunity InFocus provides robust rules that identify and notify managers on exceptional events related to performance metrics. Such alert notifications can be sent via Email, SMS, or pop-up screens. Furthermore, users can click an alert notification to immediately start managing a response.
- Automated Actions
Once performance-related events are detected, Attunity InFocus allows the configuration of automated actions that will take place to immediately drive action. For example: send an email to another manager or partner, update a database, or initiate a workflow.
- Activity Management
Closing the loop for capturing performance-related events, activity management provides an end-to-end environment where managers can access relevant information, collaborate with others, and coordinate activities to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Tracking and Audit
Attunity InFocus provides automated tracking of all the activities that take place in the system, providing information that can be used as reference, for audit, and for learning purposes.
Innovative Technology leveraging Composite Workplace Applications:
Leveraging service-oriented technology, pre-built building blocks, and rapid configuration tools, Attunity InFocus enables the prototyping of supply chain event management applications in a matter of days and the roll out of complete solutions within weeks.
Customer examples
Continuous Quality Improvement (Six-Sigma related)
“We knew we had opportunities for continuous improvement in casting. With InFocus, we identified the root causes, enabling us to focus on the specific alloys and equipment combinations that were adversely affecting our casting production. We were able to take action and make adjustments in a much more timely matter.”
David Way
Process & Reliability Manager
Norandal USA Inc.
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Sales Performance
"Before working with Attunity, we were giving our regional sales managers too much information to decipher, often several weeks old. With Attunity InFocus, sales information is presented in context, allowing us to rapidly identify trends that give way to opportunities we were previously unable to act upon. Now we can effectively manage our many key performance indicators, our service centers and our account managers in an intuitive solution that enables us to be even more nimble and competitive."
Braxton Vick
Senior VP of corporate planning and development Southeastern Freight Lines
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Improving Perfect Order Delivery
A leading manufacturer in the US improves management of back-orders by simplifying the identification of events impacting delivery to optimize the prioritization and expediting of back-orders by their commercial value.
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