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New Management Console Aggregates Data for Leaner Operations
G James, a large Australian manufacturer of premium windows and doors for homes and commercial buildings, recently implemented Oracle’s Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC) to further its lean-supply strategies and modernize its operations.

The MOC provides a central console for managing a wide range of manufacturing and supply chain activities by aggregating shop-floor information from multivendor ERP applications, milling machines, numerically controlled devices, and other computerized systems used in manufacturing and supply chain operations.

“The Manufacturing Operations Center is where information comes together—the quality-control statistics, uptime figures, performance data used to fine-tune the process flows,” says Stephen Slade, senior director, Oracle applications marketing.

G James installed the MOC as part of a new Oracle E-Business Suite implementation. “As the business began to grow, it became clear that our old legacy system could no longer support the rapid growth,” says Bruce Moy, director and project sponsor at G James. “Oracle offered a complete end-to-end solution that could be rapidly implemented and easily maintained.”

The MOC helps organizations quickly contextualize and communicate production information throughout a facility and make updates to schedules and forecasts that affect the greater supply chain, such as outside suppliers of critical components.

So if an anticipated production volume of a key component will come up short because of poor quality, the MOC will alert managers, who can then adjust downstream production statistics. “The Operations Center offers a way for production planning managers to monitor the condition of their assets and their products, as they also monitor piece counts and quality-control statistics,” Slade says.

This enables companies to make more informed on-the-fly decisions as conditions change using the information that collects centrally within the MOC. “They can intervene when an unexpected problem occurs during an assembly process, for example, rather than waiting until the end of the assembly line to find out something went wrong,” Slade explains.

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