MOBILITY IS REVOLUTIONISING MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing Global explores the Top 10 ways manufacturers are using mobility to revolutionize production lines :
order management , pricing , and fulfilment to improve customer responsiveness . Providing information to sales teams , prospects and customers when , where and how they need it is driving greater mobile CRM adoption . Respecting prospects ’ time and delivering a real-time response can make the difference between making a sale or not .
2 . Generating quotes for buildto-order products that reflect the latest pricing and delivery dates available . Mobile integration of manufacturers configure , price and quote ( CPQ ) systems to pricing and inventory systems makes it possible for a sales rep to get a complete quote done and delivered within hours of leaving a prospect .
3 . Making distributed order management more transparent to sales while increasing order fulfilment accuracy . The more complex the product being built , the more the purchasing and procurement teams on the customer side want updates . It is critical to keep customers up to date with order status , delivery dates and order alerts 24 / 7 . By using mobile technology to facilitate this , sales teams are freed up , allowing them to bring in more business .
4 . Improving supplier traceability and quality levels using real-time analysis and reporting . Too often quality systems and processes are manually integrated or isolated from manufacturing systems . Mobility is starting to have an impact here , making it possible for data around supplier traceability , quality and management to be immediately made available plant-wide .
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