Emerson

Emerson

by Zhenzhong Ren and Grady O'Brien

           Emerson is a large corporation that deals in many areas of business. The company provides other businesses with technology, software, and advice in many areas as well as providing household consumers with appliance products for their home. Given that Emerson supplies other organizations, they are embedded deeply in a supply chain themselves. Emerson is a company that gives supply chain advice and expertise to other companies, so naturally their own supply chain is top-notch. (Emerson.com)

           Emerson began using a system called Ultriva Collaborative Supply Portal. This system basically automates inventory, order, and shipping processes. Each piece of inventory has a barcode so that the system is able to be updated each time any action is taken. The system has helped Emerson run lean business practices. (ultriva.com)

           Running lean processes is a huge goal for Emerson. They will purchase and implement specialized machines for several of their manufacturing plants that greatly increase output. These machines are able to run with far fewer human operators. One plant saved $750,00 due to decreased labor costs. (Prima Power)

           The Emerson company use new technology to reduce the noisy of their factories. The facilities pick 2,000 to 2,400 lines per day for shipments bound for the company’s 70 Canadian branches. They also pick about 200 orders per day for direct shipment to customers. Each line may consist of many pieces of a specific product. Motion’s prior DC used two-level gravity and powered roller conveyor. According to Tom Sawyer, Motion’s distribution center director, the new conveyor (Emerson Industrial Automation, emersonindustrial.com) is much quieter, vastly improving the work environment.

The new combination of conveyor chain and wear strips has a coefficient of friction of just 0.16, reducing energy consumption by about 25% compared to standard chains and wear strips. Each system includes a section of about 40 feet of accumulation conveyor with a specially designed surface that minimizes load, energy use and maintenance. Manual sortation to shipping lanes will soon be upgraded to automated sorting. Gravity roller replacement cuts noise, operating costs and maintenance in a small footprint

Emerson case study on Lean Supply Chain collaboration

 Emerson case study on Lean Supply Chain collaboration. Emerson uses the Ultriva Supply Portal to improve supplier performance and to reduce working capital.

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More Information links:

• http://www.ultriva.com/about-us/about-ultriva/
• http://www2.emersonprocess.com/zh-CN/Pages/Home.aspx
• http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/en-US/pages/default.aspx
• http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2009/06/08/integrating-strategic-and-supply-chain-planning-at-emerson/

Reference 

Ultriva. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 June 2014. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultriva.com%2Fproducts%2Fcollaborative-supply-portal%2F>.

"Emerson | Supply Chain." Emerson. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 June 2014. <http://www.emerson.com/en-US/about/corporate-citizenship/Pages/manage-global-supply-chain.aspx>.

"Emerson Discovers Flexible & Lean Manufacturing." Prima Power (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 23 June 2014.

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