To help you meet your business objectives, speakTECH is a leading expert in the deployment of Microsoft technology frameworks that empower your people to accelerate insight and innovation. speakTECH-deployed, Microsoft-based solutions make it easier for them to do business with your customers, vendors, and partners.
Supply Chain Performance Solutions:
Improving supply chain collaboration using the Microsoft Office System
Extend internal collaboration beyond organizational boundaries to effectively work with partners, suppliers, and customers with a speakTECH-deployed, Microsoft Office System-based supply chain collaboration solution. Our solutions will help to provide better visibility of supply-chain activities, and give more control to stakeholders. Our solutions can also help to strengthen accountability by clearly assigning responsibilities to the right owners. With improved visibility and accountability, new product introduction can be accelerated to gain a competitive advantage.
Integrating small suppliers using the Microsoft Office System
Large manufacturers face challenges integrating their enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business-to-business (B2B) systems with the information systems used by smaller suppliers. Small suppliers often do not have the system infrastructure and resources needed to fully integrate with the systems a large manufacturer has in place. For manufacturers that need to automate transactions between themselves and small supplier partners, a speakTECH-deployed solution built using the Microsoft Office System is an ideal choice.
Operational Performance Solutions:
Driving connectivity between the plant and the enterprise
Improving plant floor efficiencies is critical for today's consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. Challenges such as finite shelf space, competition from retail brands, and closely monitored product turnover are driving a new level of competition in the industry. Even the smallest operational inefficiencies can translate into significant losses.
Microsoft and its partners are responding to these challenges by helping manufacturers improve operational performance. Innovative technology solutions are promoting connectivity across the plant floor environment and transforming raw data into actionable intelligence, helping CPG manufacturers gain greater visibility into operations and business processes.
Gaining insight into operational performance
To overcome these challenges, CPG manufacturers need to gain greater insight into plant floor operations. speakTECH-engineered and deployed plant floor visibility solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies can integrate real-time operational data with other enterprise information—seamlessly and intuitively—and transform it into actionable data. This connectivity enables manufacturers to improve production cycle times and output, monitor product quality and maintenance, and ultimately bring products to market faster.
speakTECH is a premier provider of solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005, in which operational data is gathered and aggregated from a variety of enterprise systems with ease. Built-in reporting, analysis, and data mining present the information in easy-to-read dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs), which provide historical and real-time data. While the KPIs offer insight into streamlining plant efficiencies, the data store provides a secure, effective way for manufacturers to retain critical intellectual capital.
Enterprise Manufacturing Visibility Initiative
speakTECH supports the Microsoft Peak Performance Initiative, which is helping global manufacturers improve performance, drive innovation, and gain greater insight into plant floor operations—all by leveraging existing technologies. As part of Peak Performance, speakTECH has deployed the Microsoft Enterprise Manufacturing Visibility Initiative, which focuses on achieving greater plant floor visibility and intelligence—within the plant, to the enterprise, and enterprise-wide.
The Enterprise Manufacturing Visibility Initiative includes the following three pillars:
- Integration: Consolidates data from disparate groups and supports open standards such as ISA-95 and Oagis. Technologies that drive plant-wide systems integration include Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft Message Queuing.
- Analytics: Enable manufacturers to see the impact of historical, current, and future data. Historical data provides insight into past performance; current data offers information about customer demands, scheduling, and batch yields; and future data forecasting assists with operational planning. Technologies that support powerful analytics include Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Office system.
- Collaboration: Facilitates global consistency, innovation, and a rapid response to customer shifts. It guarantees that the right information is shared with the right people at the right time. Technologies that facilitate an integrated, real-time collaboration platform include Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Live Communication Server, and Microsoft BizTalk Server.
Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a continuous process improvement methodology that helps companies reduce expenses and increase profits by streamlining operations, improving quality, and eliminating defects. speakTECH-deployed Six Sigma solutions built using the Microsoft Office System can help Six Sigma initiatives succeed by establishing an infrastructure for financial results tracking, project and resource management, and enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities. Solutions that use familiar Microsoft technologies can be deployed quickly without disrupting the organization and with minimal training costs.Product Lifecycle Management
Product lifecycle management
Successful manufacturers need to innovate and deliver new, high-value products to the marketplace quickly and efficiently. That means optimizing every step of the product lifecycle, from design and engineering to production and deployment.
speakTECH solutions accelerate successful Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes by deploying an integrated environment for engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and customers to create, manage, and leverage product information throughout the entire lifecycle. Microsoft technologies can help people find, use and share information. People can collaborate on product designs, evaluate product portfolios, and manage product data to reduce the time and cost of developing the right products. Using real-time information to manage complex relationships, people can explore more design options, understand design intent, effectively reuse components and subassemblies, drive rapid product development, and increase revenue by managing the entire product innovation process.
Collaborative product development
Competing successfully in today's global marketplace requires the close collaboration of all stakeholders in the product development lifecycle—from research and development to engineering, and from suppliers and producers to sales and marketing. speakTECH-deployed, Microsoft-based solutions for collaborative product development (CPD) offer a robust, secure, and scalable collaboration infrastructure that helps manufacturers to reduce costs, shrink time-to-market, and deliver products that best meet customer demands.
Product and project portfolio management
To get the right products to market quickly and efficiently, manufacturers must maintain control over all of their development projects. Doing so requires fast, informed decisions; a firm connection with the global team—including suppliers and customers; and the ability to implement standard protocols based on successful strategies. An integrated process management system is essential to the quick decision-making and process standardization manufacturers need to be successful.
speakTECH offers comprehensive software and services solutions for product management, idea management, risk management, resource allocation, and collaboration, tailored for every type of manufacturing. With product and project portfolio management (PPM) solutions from Microsoft deployed by the experts at speakTECH, you can drive business performance and better determine which products to make, how to allocate resources, and how to balance risk and reward with their product portfolio. The results: a better bottom line and higher customer satisfaction.