New Lilly Software Product, VISUAL Easy Lean Demonstrated to More than 600 Customers; Company Receives Accolades from Early Adopters.Business Editors HAMPTON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 Lilly Software Associates, Inc., a provider of enterprise and supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors, profiled the success of its new product, VISUAL Easy Lean(TM), to more than 600 of its worldwide customers at the company's annual user group in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . The themes of value, performance results and return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) were affirmed by many early adopter customers, including Marena Group, Link Manufacturing, ThermoFab, and Instrument Technology, Inc., to name a few. "If you are in the situation where you are fed up with your lack of delivery performance, or if you can find better uses for the money you have tied up in inventory, you must realize that change is required. Significant improvement requires fundamental change, and that is what TOC and Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR DBR Drum-Buffer-Rope DBR Distributed Bragg Reflector dBr Decibel (reference value) DBR Deterministic Bit Rate DBR Daily Business Review DBR Dual Band Radar DBR Disclosure-Based Regulation ) provide," said Jeff Carignan, Vice President Manufacturing, Instrument Technology, Inc. "Since implementing Lilly's solution, we have experienced an overall inventory reduction of 20 percent, lead times have been reduced 40 percent, on-time shipment performance has increased from 74 percent to 93 percent, and throughput productivity has increased 43 percent." VISUAL Easy Lean is an advanced planning/scheduling methodology that is integrated into Lilly's VISUAL Enterprise(TM) solution. VISUAL Easy Lean, also known as a streamlined VISUAL DBR module, supports the principles of Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less engineering time to develop a new product. and can be implemented in rapid timeframes. Designed to significantly improve lead-times and on-time delivery, VISUAL Easy Lean helps both make-to-order and make-to-stock companies overcome market constraints and increase sales. "Most American manufacturers, like us, have survived the onslaught of offshore competition by offering highly specialized items in addition to standard product offerings," said John Rogelstad, Director of Operations, Marena Group. "Traditional order processing and work release makes it extremely difficult to prioritize and complete this special work in a timely fashion. VISUAL DBR makes simultaneous make-to-order and make-to-stock production a straightforward task, to the point that we can manage both with ease." "Our solutions are optimized to give our customers a competitive advantage in their respective markets," said Scott Rich, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Lilly Software Associates. "By delivering a quality product that squarely addresses industry-wide challenges associated with on-time delivery, production lead times and increased competition, we are enabling our customers to do more with less, while significantly improving their overall business performance." About Lilly Software Associates Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL Enterprise(TM) suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. about all their business processes using ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , Project Management, Business Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the tools they need for higher productivity and profitability. Most VISUAL(R) applications run on Windows(R) 98, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Windows 2000, Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R), LINUX, Novell(R), using SQLBase(R), Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. (R), or ORACLE(R) relational databases. Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of Consumer Goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and Technology, listed in Software Magazine's Top 500, selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top 100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain e-Business, included in MSI's Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of Start magazine's Hottest Companies. |
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