EIM and process and assembly industries

After rethinking their management processes, often linked to the installation of ERP, manufacturers are now looking for ways to extend their reach in the supply chain to integrate all of their customers and suppliers:

• Outsourcing and globalisation trends have led manufacturers to monitor their processes, an ever increasing part of which is no longer under their direct supervision. Business Process Management and SOA architectures allow greater fluidity and transparency in a supply chain that is increasingly complex, diverse and wide.
• Insufficient expertise in repositories and data quality management can directly lead to management costs and lost opportunities, and even to risks associated with quality or non compliance with applicable regulations: customer knowledge, optimisation of the suppliers panel, followed by compliance with SLAs, product traceability, etc.
• Despite process formalisation efforts, a number of activities still escape their control since they always depend on the exchange of paper-based or unstructured digital documents (emails, Word, Excel files, etc.). Dematerialisation helps associate, at a very early stage, all exchanged information with their relevant management process.

• Due to an increasingly outsourced supply chain and the diverse nature of the partners involved, security and fraud related risks are high. Information security becomes a strategic issue and is no longer the mere technological concern it is often thought to be these days.

The Business & Decision EIM offering

Master Data Management, Business Process Management, dematerialisation and access controls management all constitute the backbone of Business & Decision’s EIM offering. In line with companies' continued technological investments in this sector, Business & Decision is extending this capital to widen its scope and increase value.