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Press Announcements
February
23, 2004
Milford Manufacturing Services Debuts Virtual Available-to-Promise
Capability Through “The Looking Glass™”
Milford, Mass.
– February 23, 2004 – To provide OEMs with
the only virtual available-to-promise capability in
the industry, Milford Manufacturing Services (www.milfordmfg.com)
has extended The Looking Glass™ – the company’s
flexible virtual manufacturing environment.
The Looking
Glass™ 2.0 now affords OEMs the unique and direct
opportunity to determine how to best use contract manufacturing
resources when forecasting demand or responding to an
identified need for additional product within the market.
In the past, the window of opportunity often closed
while an OEM worked with its contract manufacturers
– through the traditional and outdated program
management paradigm – to determine if additional
resources, materials and capacity were available to
meet increased demand.
“We’ve
thrown open the virtual doors and windows of Milford
Manufacturing Services to give OEMs a clear and immediate
view onto our manufacturing floor to check all material
and manufacturing availability and demand, ensuring
that both the parts and capacity are in place to meet
their needs,” stated Ed Price, president and CEO
of Milford Manufacturing Services. “As component
lead times increase and our customers see more opportunities
to sell product, this level of visibility is essential
and a key differentiator of Milford Manufacturing Services.”
With this
unprecedented, virtual available-to-promise capability,
OEMs, in a self-service module through The Looking Glass™,
can:
- Determine delivery on a new production order based
on standard requirements such as the date, quantity
or both. The Looking Glass™ reviews current
inventory levels, production demand, manufacturing
capacity and material lead times to determine if a
request can be fulfilled and generates a response
in real-time for the OEM to review;
- Immediately place new orders, if all materials
and capacity requirements are met;
- Work jointly with Milford Manufacturing Services
if system constraints, such as material lead times
or not enough manufacturing capacity, are identified.
The Looking Glass™ provides a detailed constraint
report outlining all issues directly to the OEM; and
- Respond to market changes in real-time. Rapid access
to critical available-to-promise information reduces
OEM time-to-market, providing a competitive advantage
and increased profitability.
“By
adding the virtual available-to-promise capability to
The Looking Glass™, we are dramatically cutting
the traditional lag time from weeks to literally minutes
to secure this information, and automating time-consuming,
manual processes,” continued Price. “The
result is real-time information that allows OEMs to
rapidly respond to evolving product demands, while increasing
revenue.”
The Looking
Glass™ is a virtual manufacturing environment
that provides OEMs with 24x7 online access to information
and control of their product and supply chain throughout
the manufacturing process. The Looking Glass™
is exclusively available to customers of Milford Manufacturing
Services. For more information on The Looking Glass™,
visit www.milfordmfg.com.
About Milford
Manufacturing Services
Milford Manufacturing Services enables OEMs to bring
outsourced electronic manufacturing services back under
their roof – virtually – Through The Looking
Glass™.
Milford Manufacturing
Services is a world-class EMS contract manufacturer
specializing in low-volume, high-mix production and
new product development services. The Looking Glass™
is a unique virtual, extended manufacturing environment
– an "end-to-end" system of access and
collaboration – enabling OEMs to instantly respond
to the rapidly changing needs of their customers. The
Looking Glass™ puts OEMs, regardless of size or
geographic location, in direct control over managing
the development of new products, moving newly developed
products overseas to high volume production lines, or
fulfilling legacy and build-to-order needs.
Contact Milford
Manufacturing Services, located in Milford, Mass., at
508-478-8544 or at www.milfordmfg.com.
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