Discrete Manufacturing

Discrete manufacturers today must battle complex schedule delivery challenges throughout the supply chain due to shortened plan to manufacturing cycles resulting from increased market competition. This market pressure intensifies with additional product management demands, customer commitments, support escalations and resource reprioritizations. In this environment program organizations are constantly being challenged to deliver on varying requirements across distributed engineering teams while trying to meet aggressive schedule and financial commitments. The original time to market goals are often lost in a myriad of change requests that delay delivery and increase cost.

To succeed in this environment a flexible master schedule with team-based work breakdown structure is an absolute requirement. To ensure predictable results, the master schedule must distribute accountability across the team and provide proper visibility to key stakeholders at all levels across organizations. Teams must be empowered to manage their work packages, adjust resource / schedule priorities and react to change while collaboratively tracking status in real time. The master schedule should be a central information source for managing financials / earned value, project / task status, resource commitments, issues and risks.

CrossPoint delivers a solution that meets these demanding requirements enabled by a traditional top down or team-based bottom up implementation approach; in either case roll outs are structured to provide early wins helping to build solution momentum and advocacy while enabling successful program execution. CrossPoint provides the following solution capabilities enabling on time delivery in your schedule driven organization:

• Distributed real-time scheduling that connects executive planning to shop floor execution
• Schedule visibility at all levels - portfolio, project and task - including status, issues, changes, Earned Value and traditional financials
• Increased accountability via distributed plan management at the WBS, work package and task levels across geographically distributed teams
• Reduce risk through early insight into potential program slippage enabled by the CrossPoint calculation engine
• Flexible process management supporting organizational goals and best practices - Six Sigma, ISO, lean engineering practices
• Program traceability for regulatory compliance, SOX, FASB, as well as internal metrics, such as engineering release cycles
• Schedule impact analysis - assess the schedule / EV impact for changing project requirements, resources and priorities
• Self documenting projects and tasks capture full execution history, collaborations and attachments as a natural bi-product of system use
• Ease of use - CrossPoint was designed from the ground up for real-time schedule and resource management, ensuring that all users benefit from the solution with minimal administrative overhead

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