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Food and Beverage

The Food and Beverage industry is a huge and diverse market space, with numerous sub-categories of producers, each having a series of unique requirements.

To gain the competitive edge, our customers must be agile enough to respond to market demands at all levels of operation, without increasing costs and waste or sacrificing efficiency.

The main drivers in this industry are:

Compliance to Food Safety Standards
Quality control of the incoming raw materials as well as the respective suppliers
The Traceability system, in case of a failure in the internal food safety standards

Automotive Parts & Accessories

The unprecedented state of disruption being experienced in the Automotive industry is creating more and more opportunities for both existing and new organizations.

There are four main trends driving this disruption:

1. Mobility

2. Autonomous driving

3. Digitalization

4. Electrification

All are affecting the Automotive as well as the Automotive Parts and Accessories industries and are coupled with challenges such as:

Slowing growth
Accelerated change
Need to optimize the potential of software as a key differentiator
Commoditization of hardware
Investor pressure to address lagging shareholder value

Electronics

Electronics manufacturers are facing constant pressure to introduce innovative new products that are durable, cost effective and fill a market gap. The pace is fast, design and production times are short, and time to market is constantly being reduced.

As a result, electronics manufacturers need reliable systems that enable cross-communication throughout the entire supply chain. They need to be able to stay on top of short product life cycles, long procurement lead times, indirect sales channels and complex supply chains, making reliable ERP applications a must for supply chain management.

Plastics & Rubber

Organizations today operate in a dynamic continuum where the rules of competition and operation are constantly evolving. No industry is immune to the effects of their organizational ecology. The plastics and rubber industry presents a network of primary and secondary product uses across both consumer and industrial ecosystems.

Industries in the Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing sector make goods by processing plastics materials and raw rubber. The core technology employed by establishments in this sector is that of plastics or rubber product production. Plastics and rubber are combined in the same subsector because plastics are increasingly being used as a substitute for rubber. However the subsector is generally restricted to the production of products made of just one material, either solely plastics or rubber. In congruence with the overlap of distinct technological revolutions – Industry 4.0 and the digital economy, adding regulation and environmental protectionism laws, the industry is at the epicentre of new age manufacturing processes as innovation and renovation are key attributes adopted by organizations navigating through change.

Packaging

This industry has been significantly hit with environmental concerns because of increased media awareness around plastics in the oceans (Blue Planet documentary, plastic bottles found in whales, etc). Consumer and lobby pressure is impacting government and industry organizations.

Environmental issues and new material developments are becoming big drivers of growth in the packaging industry. While the focus is on materials and processes, the reality is that protecting the product from damage or spoilage is far more important from an environmental perspective.

In today’s fiercely competitive market, packaging organizations are compelled to focus on the following key challenges:

Cost is paramount – Therefore cost control becomes paramount, which in turn requires cost control of each manufacturing process.
Innovation – The rapid changes in technology need to be monitored and carefully assessed.
New product development – A formal process to regularly refresh and improve product lines.
Quality Control and Quality Assurance – With the rapid changes, everything bought-in or made in-house has to be right first time.
Planning – With many different variants being made simultaneously, the planning process must be robust and ensure that the deadlines are met.
Inventory control – For raw materials, WIP and finished goods must be well controlled and not excessive.

Industrial Machinery & Equipment (IM&E)

The Industrial Machinery and Equipment (IM&E) industry is a diverse sector comprising various manufacturers in respective market spaces, with each of the many sub-categories of producers having their own unique requirements. From a SYSPRO viewpoint, the IM&E industry includes manufacturers of parts for machinery. In some instances, parts of the machinery are bought from other fabricators. The equipment is then assembled and motors and/or gearboxes with controls installed are brought in.

Machinery industries are trade dependent, both as a source of their inputs and as a market for their goods. This means that market fluctuations abroad influence manufacturers to a greater extent than many other industries. The Machinery and Equipment industry is also a mature one with well-established and specialized firms. This means that there are very few new entrants and therefore a lower strategic threat. However, this industry is under pressure to become automated in order to keep up or head the competition. To gain a competitive edge, our IM&E customers must be agile enough to respond to the changing needs of their end consumer and keep up to date with new technology advances, all the while maintaining or reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Metal Fabrication

Metal fabrication is the process of building machines and structures from raw metal materials. The process includes cutting, burning, welding, machining, forming, and assembly to create the final product. Metal fabrication includes everything from hand railings to heavy equipment and machinery. Specific subsectors include cutlery and hand tools; architectural and structural metals; hardware manufacturing; spring and wire manufacturing; screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing; and forging and stamping. Several sectors rely on products from this industry. These include aerospace, military, defense, construction, healthcare, consumer products and the food processing and agricultural industries.

There are two key Metal Fabrication manufacturing structures:

Custom (Job Shop) Fabricators - Predominantly services local manufacturing industries with specialized requirements or one-off jobs. Simplicity in systems is essential to these businesses.

Project Fabricators - A project fabricator might specialize in servicing a specific industry such as construction, aerospace, forestry, oil and gas. These may have a custom fabrication department that services individual customers, but the primary business is servicing the needs of a specific industry. These businesses have more sophisticated requirements from their ERP solution.

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