MARK STEVENS
Practice Leader
Overview
eLogic offers a unique, fact-based approach for clients who produce and sell configured and engineered products. We exist to serve complex business environments with transformational IT business solutions.
Business
Transformation
Break through historical barriers and achieve dramatic results. Why settle for less?
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BENEFITS
Remove Barriers
Without custom implementations, companies can become "trapped" by their limited information systems knowledge and experience.
You are not a template
Consultants and many enterprise software vendors—even the largest—are not familiar with customer-driven requirements. Their templates miss many critical business needs.
Competitive business model
Legacy systems create a false sense of security with a current process when, in reality, a noncompetitive business model is being perpetuated.
Cling to the future
Human nature and company cultures cause organizations to cling to the past. They often perceive their business as completely unique. They operate a low value-add process.
True sense of success
Existing "islands of automation" provide a false sense of success with regard to application of information system. In many instances these situations undermine the opportunity for systems integration.
Remove fear
Fear of failure, confusion and the lack of in-house implementation expertise create roadblocks to serious consideration for transformational change.
Enabling
Differentiation
eLogic's Lean Business Model solution will optimize your company's performance for every level of process complexity and product differentiation.
MAKE TO STANDARD
Without custom implementations, companies can become "trapped" by their limited information systems knowledge and experience.
ASSEMBLE TO ORDER
Consultants and many enterprise software vendors—even the largest—are not familiar with customer-driven requirements. Their templates miss many critical business needs.
DESIGN TO ORDER
Legacy systems create a false sense of security with a current process when, in reality, a noncompetitive business model is being perpetuated.
ENGINEER TO ORDER
Human nature and company cultures cause organizations to cling to the past as an answer for the future. Key employees often perceive their business as completely unique or special when, from an industry and customer perspective, they operate an inefficient low value-add process.
"It's alarming how many companies entrust their sales and marketing process and systems to generalists. Complex sales cycles for technical products have a unique set of challenges—call us to see what you can do with the right solution."
Lean Orders
THE GOAL
Ensure a correct, seamless flow of knowledge, data and information from the FIRST contact through the entire quote cycle and directly into order fulfillment. Ensure highest productivity tools and fastest execution of accurate orders.
HISTORICAL CHALLENGES:
- Customer-facing practices are heavily reliant on static technical literature, stand-alone selection and selling tools and inconsistent practices across product lines and sales channels.
- Disparate CRM and Sales Automation systems rely upon incomplete, redundant data, and provide untrustworthy data/information and reporting.
- Errors and inconsistencies in the front office translate directly to order errors, order changes, rework, excess Inventory and customer warranty claims.
- Order management is a cumbersome process with multiple iterations to collect and validate the final customer order requirements and translate these into supply chain/fulfillment systems. It is time-consuming, error prone and low-productivity for sales and internal operations.
- Software vendors have implemented dead-end solutions that don't fit into an overall lean enterprise solution.
eLogic's APPROACH:
- Fact-based needs assessment and strategy development.
- Process simplification from Contact to Cash
- Objective evaluation of software technologies
- Implementation of best practices software architecture and applications that meet your LEAN needs now and into the future.
LARRY PORTER
Practice Leader
"Many software solutions offer very robust functionality for configured and engineered product companies. eLogic specializes in these solutions. Choosing the right software doesn't guarantee success, but choosing the right implementation partner does."
Lean Products
THE GOAL
Maintain a repository for all critical product design/application knowledge, data, information AND implement the highest productivity/efficiency product design and change management systems. Integrate engineering into the enterprise in a seamless, collaborative flow.
HISTORICAL CHALLENGES:
- New product development projects run behind schedule, incongruent with customer needs and over target costs.
- Product knowledge is dispersed in "silos" across the entire organization (Engineering, Marketing, Production, Service) and is often inaccurate and out of date.
- Order Engineering design errors and chaotic change management processes result in scrap/rework, margin erosion, excess inventory and low customer satisfaction.
eLogic's APPROACH:
- eLogic brings a proprietary methodology to work directly with your team to develop a product development process that emphasizes speed to market, revenue growth and profitability.
- We facilitate the adoption of Product Development and Engineering Lifecycle processes to continuously evaluate your product portfolio from initial concept development through product obsolescence.
- We evaluate needs and implement PLM solutions that provide a central repository for critical product data and integrate with the rest of your key enterprise applications.
CHARLES STAHL
Practice Leader
"Microsoft Dynamics AX is the best kept secret for industrial product manufacturers. Combined with eLogic's industry domain expertise, it's an unbeatable combination. The best technology delivered to YOUR needs by industry experts. This is the game-changer for High-Mix, Low-Volume, Mixed-Mode manufacturing operations. Call eLogic and see the difference."
Lean Operations
THE GOAL
Assess needs and then implement lean operations tools/practices that work WITH your enterprise systems and not AGAINST them.
HISTORICAL CHALLENGES:
- Engineered product orders lack proper management and margin analysis/controls—resulting in margin erosion across the quote/order lifecycle.
- Production forecasting, planning and scheduling are based on historical forecast methods resulting in unbalanced production and unnecessary expediting.
- Bills of material, shop routings, supplier requirements and documentation needs are not synchronized with the lean production practices.
- MRP planning horizons are too long resulting in unnecessary system noise and overproduction.
- Software vendors have implemented dead-end application solutions that don't fit into an overall lean enterprise solution.
eLogic's APPROACH:
- eLogic specializes in value stream analysis and systems integration assessments to document gaps in your current business environment and develop solutions that close them with high yield improvements.
- We specialize in integration of Lean visual tools with enterprise business systems.
- For those companies using Lean Manufacturing processes on the shop floor, we implement system that support Kanbans, Heijunka Boards, Lean Order Scheduling and Lean Accounting.
- We connect special order requirements from your systems to your suppliers ensuring a closed loop for procurement and documentation.