Manufacturing organizations are constantly facing challenges to accelerate decision making and efficiency needed to produce quality products, goods and services. In order for these manufacturers to drive processes and increase operational efficiency to contend in a global market, their teams need easy access to real-time data. New technology is allowing manufacturing teams to break down data silos from multiple information systems, and easily collaborate together in one place. With the right technology, manufacturing teams are better connected, increasing their productivity by getting real-time information to employees at the right time.

1. Drive IT Operational Excellence:
Break Down Silos with Real-Time
Data Delivery

2. Addressing operations challenges
with technology
Catavolt launched a survey titled “How Leading Manufacturers are
Accelerating Operational Excellence” in September 2014, to gain insight on
how manufacturing organizations are working to continuously improve their
operations, workflows and business processes.
We collected 111 responses from manufacturing professionals in various
disciplines on trends and technology that are driving operational excellence.
Increased competition in the market, meeting customer expectations, rapidly
changing plant floor conditions, and the need to increase revenue, is pushing
manufacturing organizations across all industries towards more efficient
operational processes.

3. Manufacturing organizations are increasing
operational excellence investments in 2015
• Manufacturing organizations are constantly facing challenges to accelerate decision
making and efficiency needed to produce quality products, goods and services.
• New technology is allowing manufacturing teams to break down data silos from
multiple information systems, and easily collaborate together in one place.
36%
of IT executives believe that providing
information to support better planning
and decision-making for managers should
be a top priority for their organization
(CIO Insights, 2015).
Only

4. Break down silos to access real-time data
By breaking down data silos in manufacturing, organiza-
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ciation of goals and visions among departments. Accord-
ing to a recent report, putting data to work is a common
challenge in the manufacturing industry.
But, when data is being stored in multiple systems in-
cluding Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse
Management System (EMS), Supply Chain Management
(SCM), and Client Relationship Management (CRM) sys-
tems, it is harder to determine its integrity as teams
compare and synchronize it across multiple systems.
Data “silos” are described as a system that is unable to operate with any other system.
These silos typically occur because of how an organization’s information or data
system is constructed. So, why break down these data silos?

5. Is this how your manufacturing departments
communicate and store data?
IT
Supply ChainSales
WMS
Production
ERP
Operations
CRM SCM
Manufacturing organizations that have siloed data in multiple information

6. Breaking down silos: Driving efficiency
with the right processes
In a manufacturing company, IT should be at the center of all organizational
among all departments.
IT SCM
Operations
Supply ChainProduction
Sales
WMS
ERP
CRM

7. Does your manufacturing organization
have a data silo issue?
How much time and money is your
manufacturing organization spending
on paper-based processes?
Something for your team to consider is how
much money your organization spends on
printing, ink, and paper. Consider how much
time your teams spend writing and re-writing
forms in data rooms.
?

8. Does your manufacturing organization
have a data silo issue?
How long does it take your manufacturing
organization to process a change order or
customer request?
If your team is having to go back to their desktop
-
?

9. Does your manufacturing organization
have a data silo issue?
Is your manufacturing organization
having issues with data integrity,
reliability and relevance?
If data is already outdated by the time your man-
ufacturing teams access it to get their jobs done,
your organization may need to review how data
is stored in information systems across multiple
departments.
?

10. Does your manufacturing organization
have a data silo issue?
How long does it take your quality
control and compliance teams to
If it takes days or weeks to address and remedy a
alerts the quality control or compliance team,
consider if your teams are relying on e-mails or
paper-based processes to address them.
?

11. Why do manufacturing organizations
need real-time data?
To create, develop and manufacture a great tool or product, manufacturing
organizations require real-time, synchronized data.
• Managers in manufacturing organizations are often responsible for one specific
department, each with different priorities, daily tasks, goals, and visions. Often unaware
of the vision and goals of other departments.
• In order to get the job done effectively and efficiently, real-time data is a critical
component for a manufacturing organization’s operational excellence initiatives.
• With the data teams need, manufacturers have the ability to perform activities such as
transmitting information and getting immediate responses to increase or reduce
production.

12. How mobile apps helps manufacturing
organizations
Mobile apps for manufacturing
provide real-time data that helps
organizations streamline operations
and improve workforce optimization
Mobile apps helped Winegard Company decrease the amount
of time they spent searching multiple ERP systems for crucial
data their teams needed to complete quality assurance audits.
allowing for easier communication and collaboration across the
organization.
Click here to see how mobile apps helped break
down data silos at Winegard Company

13. Is your manufacturing team taking the
right steps to access real-time data?
With access to real-time data on a mobile device, your manu-
facturing operations team can easily access sales number and
KPI dashboards needed to make important decisions on placing
orders, raw material inventory, hiring, shipping, and managing
costs.

14. Is your manufacturing team taking the
right steps to access real-time data?
Access to real-time data means fewer human errors, and
less time and money spent on paper-based processes.
When your manufacturing teams can access real-time data with the
tap of an app, they can easily make decisions based on the latest infor-
mation that is critical to operations. When this information is stored
and edited on a mobile app, it is less likely that there will be human
errors, and less time is spent writing, printing, copying, and scanning
paper forms.

15. Is your manufacturing team taking the
right steps to access real-time data?
Access to real-time data drives organizational
collaboration and communication.
Mobility with real-time data gives manufacturing teams the abil-
ity to collaborate with each other in multiple locations, increases
productivity, and streamlines processes to guarantee high quality
production and better decision making.

16. Is your manufacturing team taking the
right steps to access real-time data?
Access to real-time data means your team spends less time
searching for the information they need, and more time
getting the job done.
Mobility with real-time data encourage a culture of integrity and con-
tinuous improvement. Real-time data with mobility, gives your teams
goods, and contend on a global market.

17. Examples of pre-built manufacturing
apps
Monitor operations at mul-
tiple facilities in real-time operations and inventory
Monitor production volume and
get disruption alerts

18. Mobility creates customer value at every step of
the manufacturing process
Supply
Chain
Operations Fulfillment
Sales &
Marketing
Post Sale
Inventory Control
Real-time Logistics
Scheduling
Receipt Acknowledgements
Product Lead Times
Order Tracking
Scheduling Visibility
Quality Control
Dispatch Scheduling
Logistics
Route Optimization
Warehouse Automation
Work Order Approvals
Service Manuals
Service Performance
Dealer Management
Customer Dashboard
Sales Reporting
Quotes/Estimating
Competitor Intel/Analytics

19. Learn more about how mobile apps drive
manufacturing operational excellence
• Addressing the challenge of data silos in
manufacturing organizations and how real-time
data delivered using mobile apps can help
• How manufacturing organizations are using
technology like mobility to accelerate their
operational excellence initiatives
www.catavolt.com
Click here to see examples of mobile apps that can help you
breakdown data silos