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FOCUS AREAS: MILL PRODUCTS

ISSUES FACING THE MILL PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
The mill products industry must focus more than ever on the bottom-line and gaining competitive advantage due to industry pressures of globalization, regulatory compliance, supply price volatility, increased competition, geographic expansion, consolidations, mergers and closings. The need for efficiency and agility has intensified while reducing manufacturing costs continues to be critical.

The mill products industry has complex requirements—large numbers of products/variants and characteristics with unique units of measure based on area and length—that demand expert people and specialized systems to meet such needs.

Dickinson + Associates helps mill products manufacturers meet the increasing demand for technology-driven solutions that integrate their relationships with customers, suppliers, vendors, and partners internally and externally.

HOW SAP SOFTWARE CAN HELP
SAP for mill products is built on an enterprise strategy architecture (ESA) allowing individual and modular deployments of business solutions. Mill products companies can experience a realized return by focusing on using product management and asset utilization including SAP VC (Variant Configuration), SAP PP (Production Planning), and SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) modules of SAP R/3; with the additional functionality of SAP Mill Solutions and SAP APO.

Variant Configuration (VC) and Mill Products Solution: Manage complex products and efficiently take customer orders, plan, and produce them. Also provides cost collection and analysis to support continuous improved processes to better their competitive position

Plant Maintenance (PM): Improve asset utilization with methodical maintenance, minimize down-time and realize improved production efficiency

Production Planning (PP): Carefully plan the proper sequencing of products through the production line. Control production planning and execution with an integrated set of tools to achieve cost savings and improved throughput

Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO): Reduce turn-around time on production units to drive production efficiencies. Optimize throughput through reduced setup and effective changeovers

WHY DICKINSON + ASSOCIATES
Dickinson + Associates helps transform our clients’ business to achieve efficient, effective and responsive operations by applying the right people, process, and technology. We deliver management consulting and information technology services to a wide variety of mill products clients whether in fabricated metals, building materials, forest products, paper and packaging, furniture or textiles sectors.

Dickinson + Associates’ consultants bring strong manufacturing backgrounds and solid SAP expertise to help meet our client’s business goals. With a combined 75 years of mill industry experience and an average of nine years SAP experience, our consultants design solutions for the unique needs of the mill products industry. We understand that the requirements of this industry extend beyond the manufacturing floor and impact everyone from suppliers through customers.

REPRESENTATIVE COMPANIES OUR CONSULTANTS HAVE SERVED:
Acme Steel
Bemis
National Steel
Pacific Coast Building Products
Wellborn Cabinet
Wilson Tool