A.J. Antunes & Co.
Location: Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
Industry: Industrial Products
Company Description: A.J. Antunes & Co. manufactures industrial controls, foodservice equipment and water filtration systems. They distribute to customers worldwide.
Challenges:
- No visibility into real-time information by the production schedulers
- Cumbersome to pull critical data from multiple report and inquiry screens and multiple spreadsheets
- Schedules could not provide up-to-date demand, supply and inventory data
- Long production lead times
- Underutilized or over-scheduled capacity
- Excess inventory purchased and held
Solution: QAD Production Scheduler, QAD QAD Enterprise Applications (version MFG/PRO eB2.1)
Results:
- Reduced scheduling time by as much as 75 percent
- Eliminated need to manage schedules manually
- Improved inventory management
- Significantly reduced lead times
- Enhanced overall production process
- Enabled customer service improvements
