4. Miller History
In 1899, John Miller I, a farmer in St
Nazianz area & the great grand father of
the current owner/president. founded a
hardware and implement store
5. Miller History
The Company has roots in farm equipment dealership & distribution.
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1981 : Small manufacturing began Miller Pro forage boxes
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1998 : Began production of self propelled (motorized) sprayers
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2004 : AG BAG product line was acquired
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We have one physical location, located in the small town of Saint Nazianz, WI
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We currently employ about 273 people
16. HISTORY OF MILLER ERP SYSTEMS
• 2001 – The decision was made to migrate from our current ERP system (EMS) to
IFS (2001)
• 2005 – upgraded to IFS 2004
• 2009 – June – went live on IFS 7.5 SP1
• 2010 – July – went live on 7.5 SP5
• 2013 – June – went live on 8.0 SP1
17. HISTORY OF OUR ERP SYSTEMS
CURRENTLY USING
• IFS Financials
• IFS Supply Chain
• IFS Engineering
• IFS Manufacturing
• IFS Sales & Marketing (CRM)
• IFS Demand Planning
• IFS Business Intelligence
• IFS Quality Management - testing
18. LEAN
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Part of Miller’s lean initiatives are to improve efficiencies and reduce
waste.
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2011 – introduction of the iPad to our manufacturing floor
• The main area of use of the iPads was on our assembly lines
• All of our process sheets and work instructions were placed into
SharePoint and made available on the iPads.
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20. LEAN
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The Quality Department plays a large role in the Lean initiative –
specifically in the waste area.
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Nonconforming products can be identified by anybody in the building,
however Quality creates the Nonconformance Report (NCR), manages
the disposition of the part, and uses the data to drive continuous
improvement at Miller and also our suppliers.
39. MOBILITY
• We are using iPads out on the plant and also in the Quality department,
however, since we do not use Citrix, the iPad was not an option with IFS.
• IFS offers a Quality Assurance app for creating NCRs on the Android platform,
but we are not currently using any Android devices in the production area.
• IFS Applications 8.0 is ”touch” friendly. So, our solution was to use a Microsoft
Surface Pro device to enable the Quality Department to create NCRs at any
point in the plant.
• The result of this? Only 1 trip to the nonconforming part or machine is needed
to capture all information.