![]() ClearChain can help you access the data you need to plan accordingly, keep your production line moving and avoid big costs and big headaches. So do the related customer service complaints when items aren’t produced on schedule. The financial costs of production line shutdowns add up quickly. “When a plant is at max capacity, there are no makeup opportunities, and the math adds up pretty quickly.” -Evan Vander Eyk, a vice president at Penske Logistic Advanced insight into disruptions can help shippers avoid premium routing, which can add 20 to 50 percent onto the cost of a normal route. If disruptions occur, Penske Logistics can work to reroute loads or find alternative modes of transportation if necessary. ![]() Use Advanced Notice to Plan Better and Save Money When concern arises over a specific part that could disrupt manufacturing activity, Penske can monitor critical shipments or shipments off-schedule. This helps to ensure products will move as planned. Operators also use the technology to monitor constrained suppliers and sequenced suppliers. To increase visibility into potential disruptions, Penske monitors traffic and weather in relation to customers’ locations and carriers’ routes. “ClearChain gets specific so you can make sure you have the right labor in your plant and plan their schedules.” -Tom McKenna, senior vice president of engineering and technology for Penske Logistics Rely on the Right Data Access to real-time data also allows facilities to fine-tune production schedules and scale labor accordingly. Ensure the Right Labor Is ReadyĬlearChain’s visibility minimizes supply chain disruptions that can shut down or slow a production line. This means the production facility will know any discrepancies between the amount shipped and the amount ordered, or what disruptions occurred along the way. At any point, the system can pull information to know what products are moving from a supplier’s dock to a cross dock, or from the cross dock to a warehouse. A production line is a manufacturing configuration that features a series of processing steps. ClearChain provides visibility by creating checkpoints throughout the supply chain, so all parties know what is needed, what is coming and when it will arrive. Get Real-Time Updates from Inbound SuppliersĮffectively managing production lines starts with ensuring the right orders are placed at the right time. Penske’s team mines the right data, and then uses that data to create a solution, manage it and report the results back to you. To help, Penske Logistics uses its ClearChain ® Technology Suite to optimize the supply chain, minimize disruptions and ensure your production line doesn’t stop. Keeping your production line moving takes a multipronged approach. When manufacturers know the parts they need for production will arrive on time and in the quantities ordered, they can breathe a sigh of relief, because production will continue seamlessly. Yet headaches like stopped production lines don’t have to happen.
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