ADVISORY/AFC and Valdero Corporation to Present a Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility Solution at Supply Chain World.Business Editors/Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (March 29) --(BUSINESS WIRE) AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. will discuss how it gained competitive advantage by balancing supply with demand, dramatically cutting inventory costs, and building a real-time visibility pipeline to its contract manufacturers Overview: Once manufacturers engage in the outsourced production of its goods or products, maintaining visibility of its inventory levels becomes more difficult. It became apparent to AFC(R) two years ago that it needed to gain visibility of its inventory system and be proactive rather than reactive to its supply chain. The change AFC made was to invest in a real-time supply-chain visibility system. AFC's Felipe Martinez, senior purchasing manager A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. , will discuss the steps AFC took to connect real time with its contract manufacturer (CM) sites in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Asia and numerous component suppliers. Along with Valdero's Tom White, engagement manager, Felipe will outline how AFC now has multi-tier visibility extending from AFC's shop floor to the CM's down to third-tier suppliers. Multi-tier visibility provides AFC with real-time knowledge of what is being built and bought on its behalf by the CM's and suppliers. It has direct control over what parts and components are short or in excess and can act accordingly. Felipe will provide details of the results of implementing Valdero supply chain solution, and how AFC's inventory turns have increased 2.25 times and excess inventory has been cut 95 percent. Bottom line results are that AFC gained competitive advantage by balancing supply with demand, dramatically cut inventory costs and, basically, built a real-time visibility pipeline to its CMs.
Where: Supply Chain World
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago,
Illinois
Conference Dates: March 29-31, 2004
Presentation Date: Monday, March 29 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT
Topic: AFC Case Study: Building a Contract Manufacturer
Pipeline
About AFC Headquartered in Petaluma, Calif., AFC is a leading provider of broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. solutions for the global telecommunications industry. With a customer base of more than 800 service providers worldwide, AFC continues to build and support the world's evolving broadband access network architecture. Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc., AFC, and the AFC logo are registered trademarks of Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc. Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. For more information, please visit AFC online at www.afc.com or call 1-800-690-AFCI. About Valdero Valdero Corporation is a provider of inventory visibility and order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment software applications. Valdero creates high velocity supply and demand chains through real-time visibility, collaboration and execution. With Valdero, businesses can reduce excess and obsolete inventory Obsolete Inventory Term that refers to inventory that is at the end of its product life cycle and has not seen any sales or usage for a set period of time usually determined by the industry. This type of inventory has to be written down and can cause large losses for a company. , reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and order cycle times. Valdero's solution can be implemented in as little as three months. Applicable across manufacturing companies in the high technology, automotive and consumer markets, Valdero is currently in use at industry-leading companies such as Leapfrog, Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC), Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. , net.com, and Enterasys Networks. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Valdero is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. backed by premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Integral Capital Partners. For more information visit www.valdero.com. |
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