Mobility for Quality Control - Win a Tablet
Win a tablet from Horizons by participating in our Quality Essentials Suite survey during Convergence2012. One lucky participant in our survey will win a tablet device after the conclusion of Convergence 2012 in Houston. Visit us at booth 2146 and experience mobility for your quality control activities.
Video Overview of Quality Essentials Suite
View a high level tour of Quality Essentials Suite from Horizons International. This overview demo will introduce you to essential information on navigation and key software functionality. Plan to reduce the cost of quality by eliminating transcription costs and delivering real time information to stakeholders. [View Video]
Commodity prices for raw materials have rarely been as erratic and unpredictable as they are in current conditions. Additional cost of operations, whether for employee benefits like health care or more mundane areas like energy use a re also affecting margins and profitability. Accurate cost planning through multiple levels of a bill of material or recipe can significantly aid in rapidly understanding actual to plan performance and provide opportunities for process and product adjustments to match changing cost factors. Without integrated tools that match production events to financial data in real time valuable opportunities for awareness and adjustment of margins, pricing and planning will be lost. Horizons Manufacturing Suite integrated to Microsoft DynamicsGP provides real time visibility of materials and non materials cost of production to support either actual or periodic cost manufacturing environments.
For manufacturers without fully integrated business systems end of period closing and reporting can be a complex and burdensome process leading to consistency errors and limited visibility of company wide operations for multiple days each month. Such restrictions can affect sales responsiveness and typically lead to monthly production performance that is disproportionately weighted to end of month ramp up, resulting in overtime and other crisis related costs impacting the total business operations.
Challenging economic times bring renewed emphasis on understanding cash requirements and affects of inventory build on cash utilization. Under utilized inventory dollars can be a drag on performance measures across the board and limit an organizations ability to be nimble and flexible in responding to customer and market needs. Integrated views of demand for cash, to cover planned purchases with awareness of manufacturing outputs to deliver sold product, in a speedy and accurate manner can relieve crisis management and make solid planning efforts productive and measurable truly enhancing management ability to respond effectively to the demands of business operations.