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It's now a Reality
Optimizing Profitability through Precise MU and Production Efficiency 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Manufacturers operate in a super-competitive business environment that makes it increasingly difficult to achieve their profitability objectives-and often turn normal business processes upside down. For example, product development has become an ongoing process and product mixes are growing. Customer demand changes constantly as well, making it almost impossible to precisely determine soft material utilization and labor costs. And with global supply chains, effective communication has become critical to achieving product quality and delivery goals.
Meeting these challenges is now possible, thanks to Lectra's Optiplan. Optiplan combines powerful, algorithm-based software with the latest process methodologies to optimize production processes and soft material utilization. Choose the most efficient marker, best production strategy and most effective facility for each order-and material consumption and product costs are benchmarked for accurate costing and process management. In addition to optimizing cutting, Optiplan can process ERP system data to identify specific soft material selections from inventory. Optiplan also enables manufacturers to deliver precise cut orders directly to downstream spreading and cutting equipment over the network, eliminating redundancies, miscommunication, and human entry errors. With Optiplan, organizations maximize costing accuracy and facility efficiency to improve the profitability of every order.
BALANCING COST AND RISK: A MAJOR CHALLENGE
Each year, companies increase the number of products they develop, and develop products more frequently to attract consumers with fresh merchandise and replenish "hot" products. The result is smaller customer's orders, which make it difficult for manufacturers and sourcing teams to achieve pricing goals or production economies. And as always, short product lead times and last-minute changes complicate production.
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