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Case Study: How to identify machine incidents 55% faster through IoT
In this inspiring one-hour webinar, we speak with Stefano Mariani, Information Technology Manager in Alcar Ruote SA and learn how he has transformed their end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing operations into an award-winning company which has enabled them to change at pace to deliver on customer needs and gain efficiency e.g. identifying machine incidents 55% faster than before.
Stefano Mariani
Information Technology Manager in Alcar Ruote SA
Maria Villablanca
Co-Founder & CEO, Future Insights Network
Vikram Singla
Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development - Supply Chain , Oracle
Background
Alcar Ruote, part of a multinational based in Austria, designs, produces, and distributes steel wheels for the automotive aftermarket, manufacturing about 1.5 million wheels per year.
In 2017, Alcar knew they needed an advanced planning system to maintain their Swiss quality benchmark.
The company wanted to move from on-premises applications to the cloud to gain real-time data to respond quickly when a new car hits the market, to evaluate business systems, and to correct any problems. The company’s top priority was to build more flexible and effective planning and order management processes. They wanted increased traceability to accelerate automation processes and react in real-time to any deviations from the standards for its factory machinery.
The project involved the implementation of a cloud-based ERP system with end-to-end planning, procurement, manufacturing and distribution capabilities to enhance visibility across these core functions. The implementation also included using IoT data to provide a packaged IT/OT environment to further improve the business processes and provide connected experiences. The main objectives of the implementation were to automate order-to-fill processes (for customer experience gain) and boost productivity.
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Results
Since the project was completed Alcar has dramatically reduced downtime and enhanced maintenance. Alcar can now analyze sensor data, identify trends, predict failures, and take action. They collect data, appropriately structure the data, and provide users with relevant insights and information for their respective roles. With fully integrated supply chain, IoT and ERP applications, the company automatically sends data to corporate headquarters to manage financials, view invoices in real-time, and also generates EDI messages dispatched to customer logistic and accounting teams.
In this session, we will learn how Alcar’s project led to the simplification of systems architecture and the planning and order management processes. These processes now automatically create sales orders for 80% of deliveries, reduce cost of ownership of planning and order management processes by 35%, as well as adding the capability to detect and anlayze machine incidents 55% faster than before.
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Learn more about our Discussion Leaders
Stefano Mariani
Information Technology Manager in Alcar Ruote SA
Stefano has over 20 years of professional history of working in the automotive industry with responsibilities in Organization and IT areas.
He has responsibility for planning, and control of the information technology projects. In the last few years he has focused on the implementation and the maintenance of Internet of Things Hardware and Software Applications, Manufacturing Applications, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud.
Maria Villablanca
CEO and Co-Founder, Future Insights Network (FIN)
Maria Villablanca is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Future Insights Network, an independent media platform for manufacturing, supply chain, and digital transformation leaders and the host of the Transform Talks podcast.
In this capacity, Maria interviews senior practitioners and the greatest thought-leaders of today to cut through the hype and noise around transformation.
Maria is the driving force behind Future Insights Network’s mission to demystify technologies such as AI and ML, IoT, robotics, and blockchain and uncover their use cases for building robust supply chains during the Industry 4.0 era. As a strong believer in diversity and inclusion, Maria is proud to be leading a women-operated business.
Maria’s contribution to the supply chain profession is widely recognized and has seen her win a number of awards, including Supply Chain Digital’s ‘Top 100 Leaders in Supply Chain’, Insights Success’ ’10 Most Tremendous Women in Supply Chain’, Views’ ‘The 10 Most Empowering Businesswomen Leading Through The Change, 2022’ among many others.
Vikram Singla
Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development - Supply Chain , Oracle
Vikram helps supply chain and finance business leaders leverage technology to deliver meaningful business outcomes for their organizations. He also serves on the board of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport) – UK.
He has over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, including deploying supply chain transformation programmes for Fortune 500 firms. One of his initial assignments was to build digital factory models to drive capital investment decisions at an automotive major.
He is currently responsible for defining and executing the go-to-market strategy for cloud solutions in the UK. Vikram has an MBA from Warwick Business School and graduated from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi, India
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