1. Manufacturing strategy - Dave Penny says New Zealand needs to accept that it can't compete with low cost, high volume manufacturers such as China. If our manufacturing industry is to thrive, it must adopt other strategies. (Dave Penny, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise?s sector director, July 2005)
  1. A Smart Response is an Emphasis on high-value manufacturing, where intellectual capital, smart technology, operational agility and process flexibility are key assets. Also much attention is being paid to continuous product innovation, more enlightened value chain management, managing complexity and shortening the product-to-market timescales. (Reg Harris, industry development consultant, June 006)
  1. Sleepyhead has a capital expenditure of $2million for the 2007 year and is installing technology including a computer system that enables all staff to log production and earn bonuses above normal wages for productivity gains. Employee movements could also be recorded to identify specific actions associated with jobs, which could then be re-engineered to save time. You can measure the productivity, then work out how to get gains. These are the things New Zealand businesses have got to do. (Craig Turner, MD of Sleepyhead, in the NZ Herald 1st September 2007)
  1. Frankly, I believe policy makers do not understand the importance of manufacturing on the New Zealand economy. They don't understand the way it links into everything we do. Without manufacturing even our biggest industries such as agriculture and horticulture would be affected. Every piece of cheese or meat that leaves New Zealand involves some aspect of packaging. If we had no plastics industry what would happen to our cheese and meat? And without the tooling industry we don't have a plastics and packaging industry. I'd love it if someone did an economc benefit analysis of manufacturing on the economy. I don't think anyone realy understands the real value of manufacturing to our country. (Robin Martin, CEO, Plastic New Zealand, in the -A vision for world leading New Zealand manufactures", November 2006)

In short, New Zealand's major exporters such as Fontera, ENZA and their agricultural and horticultural producers would find it difficult without support from our smaller engineering, electronics and metal fabrication manufacturers. These smaller manufacturers have produced some world-leading designs and products which in turn have made exported sales. Fontera earns 25% of NZ's export revenues with the remainder including other manufacturers, tourism, fisheries, fruit and the wine industry.

There is no doubt that NZ manufactures are under considerable pressure, and that is the reason that Software Applications has changed it's emphasise from software sales to manufacturing expertise sales.

Yes, we are skilled in manufacturing software, our company began with a focus on businesses running Multivalue databases (a legacy platform concentrated in manufacturing and wholesale distribution sectors).                                      

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We specialized in creating a manufacturing software package that was fully certified with the APICS. Over time howeve we began to see that the portfolio of skills and experienced gained could be applied to manufacturing business to better appreciate and manage their IT systems.




Here below are the Top 10 most important reasons that differentiates Software Applications from its competitors and why Software Applications services are ideal for your company:

  1. SAL has existed in the NZ manufacturing market for over 25 years
  1. SAL has developed an APICS certified manufacturing software package. SAL use this as a sandbox to explore and understand new and improved manufacturing models and strategies.
  1. SAL understands the key issues in manufacturing that affect profitibality and cost management
  1. SAL understands manufacturing software limitations, in particular why functionality degrades with each new re-write using new IT technology
  1. SAL understands that there is good and bad reasons for software customisation. There is a difference and its important to understand the distinction
  1. Many MRP software vendors pay lip service to full manufacturing capabilities. At best there offerings are superficial. SAL can assist in overcoming these limitations
  1. SAL understands that many businesses are risk-averse when they purchase software. Even though these businesses consider the stability of the software vendor more important than the functionality of their software, SAL can still assist in these cases.
  1. It is not uncommon for some NZ agents of overseas manufacturing software vendors to only have superficial expertise in manufacturing. SAL can help in overcoming limitations in these situations
  1. We understand that some software can have an impressive front-end look but lacks the essential back-end business rules logic. It?s the back-end business rules that drive your business and without it you have major issues.
  1. SAL can help you get the most out of your existing manufacturing system

 

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