Manufacturing

In today’s economy manufacturers face unprecedented challenges from global competitors whilst customers simultaneously demand more.  To succeed manufacturers must be flexible and responsive and continue to address supply chain efficiencies at the same time as controlling costs.

Information is the critical driver of any manufacturing enterprise.  Those that harness the power of information can develop more efficient ways to connect with suppliers, employees, and partners, and to more competently meet the needs of customers.  Effectively integrating enterprise wide information remains a challenge for many manufacturers.  Although they have implemented SAP and experienced the benefits of an integrated technology solution, several disparate systems may still exist (accessed via proprietary interfaces).  Operating these is inefficient, increases the burden on system support, and adds operating costs.  Such inefficiency, coupled with a lack of visibility into real-time information impedes ongoing process improvement.

It’s time to extend the reach and mobility of SAP throughout your enterprise.  It’s time to deliver higher levels of customer service, empower your workforce with anywhere, anytime access to vital information, track on-site and off-site equipment, allocate materials and resources in the most cost effective manner, automate practices and processes and reap a greater return from your investment in SAP.

Meeting the Challenges

Sky Technologies’ solutions are the key to meeting the challenges facing this industry.  We deliver a suite of products that are simple, flexible and reliable.  The solutions are scalable to suit any requirements, are upgrade friendly and future proof.

SkyMobile

SkyMobile empowers field technicians, engineers or other remote service agents to connect, interact and share critical field data on customers, orders and inventory directly with the back office and other value chain stakeholders. SkyMobile removes cumbersome and poor performing paper based or non-integrated systems and delivers SAP® applications directly to any mobile device such as rugged PDA, laptop, tablet PC or BlackBerry®.

Typical Solutions for your Industry include:

• Mobilise warehouse staff and inventory controllers: Process production and inventory transactions as they occur, using mobile devices and barcode (or RFID) technologies. 
• Workflow Approval on BlackBerry Smartphone: Approve your purchase orders, requisitions, leave approvals etc on a BlackBerry Smartphone allowing your staff to respond promptly to both internal and external business demands.
• Improving Maintenance Operations: Do this by extending SAP to the field: Schedule SAP plant maintenance/service orders and notification tasks. Allow your maintenance staff to record completions, material consumption, time, inspections, hazard notifications etc.
• Maximise your output: Extend SAP to the shop floor to maximise production activities by giving your shop floor staff real time visibility to production orders. Eliminate errors by communicating directly to/from PLC’s, capturing data such as raw materials usage, time, labour, wastage and production quantities.

SkyConnect

SkyConnect is a powerful suite of integration options that enables you to seamlessly interface your SAP environment to any number of external systems and devices, without the need for cumbersome middleware.  A central management console is provided giving complete visibility to all interface processes, ensuring transactions are monitored from initiation to final posting.

• Empower the business users: Eliminate costly delays by empowering the business owners, hence reducing IT support costs.
• Automation: Integrate business processing with RFID, PLC, robotics, EFT, conveyer devices etc.
• EDI Management Processes: Document translation and processing inside SAP, eliminating third party middleware.

SkyPOS

SkyPOS enables you to deploy a completely integrated order-to-cash process.  Device integration is middleware free, and includes, EFT devices, cashdrawers, and banking gateways.  SAP master data is the central source for all transactions, eliminating the need to maintain separate systems.

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