Released on: May 2, 2008, 5:04 am

Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Datacraft Solutions' Electronic Kanban System Shows Changes
in Past Two Years

Press Release Body: Much has changed since first writing about Demand Driven Supply
Chain issues and technology in the past two years since first authoring a feature
for Automation.com In the current 2008 issue of Automation.com, leading
manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, describes the current nature of Demand
Driven Supply Chain and the use of Electronic Kanban through industry leader
Datacraft Solutions. The entire article can be read at
http://www.automation.com/sitepages/pid3366.php.

According to Cutler, "Materials and Plant Managers improve productivity through
automation of repetitive, time-consuming management functions as well as elimination
of waste built into manual kanban card process. In a Demand Driven Supply Chain
(DDSC) there is instant availability of real-time inventory data as well as an
automatic calculation of proper replenishment levels."

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Within the supply-chain: The lifecycle of a supply-chain has shortened and the need
to economically and rapidly reconfigure a supply-chain has increased.
ERP developers continue to add marginal pull oriented supply-chain functionality but
still do not understand they are a "node" in a network. Some call this the
Microsoft syndrome, "the desktop is the center of the universe, not the net."

Simplicity has more value today than at any point in history. A half decade of
people buying both at the business and personal level services such as broadband
internet, IP phone service and web conferencing services has made SaaS an acceptable
delivery vehicle for managing a demand driven supply-chain.

Off-shore out sourcing and rapid consolidation in manufacturing industry have made
the ability to effective manage, or participate in a demand driven supply-chain the
deference between survival or extinction.

There are dramatic difference about an on-demand digital kanban solution according
to Stephen Parker, CEO of Datacraft Solutions who notes that Signum (their core DDSC
Saas solution) is hosted on the company's servers and backed by the company's
infrastructure, eliminate those cost to the enterprise as well as administrator to
maintain the software and hardware. The SaaS (software as a solution) model
establishes a DDSC with fixed monthly costs, paying only for what is needed and
used. Cost of Ownership in a DDSC environment is easily calculated and contained.


Additional savings are derived in a DDSC environment by freeing up man-hours
typically wasted in communication follow-up and manually managing the kanban cards
on the floor. There are other savings realized in reduced telephone calls and faxes,
but more importantly, clients see improved supplier response time and delivery
performance that translates into fewer stock-outs and lost production time in the
plant.


About Datacraft Solutions:

Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) delivers a revolutionary digital
kanban process of automation solutions to lean manufacturers through a secure
Internet gateway, eliminating the need to install and maintain a complex IT
infrastructure. The company has experienced significant growth in the past two years
by eliminating complicated, expensive, time-intensive software implementations as
well as extensive training regiments and the need for internal support. The
Datacraft Solutions\' replenishment supply chain digital kanban lean system allows
customers access and fully utilize powerful lean benefits immediately for a low,
predictable monthly fee. Services are scalable so manufacturers can design an
appropriate digital kanban solution.


Datacraft Solutions
www.datacraftsolutions.com
Sonja Foust
sfoust@datacraftsolutions.net
800-819-5326


Web Site: http://www.datacraftsolutions.com

Contact Details: Datacraft Solutions
604 W. Morgan St.
Suite B-9
Durham, NC 27701
800-819-5326