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01-09-2006
Customers & PartnersBringing the Supply Chain to the firm core: Brevini Riduttori centers the target with MaNeM Brevini Riduttori, established in Reggio Emilia in 1960 by the brothers Renato, Luciano and Corrado Brevini, today operates on the international scene. Its core business is the production and distribution of ‘epicycloid’ reducers, one of the most advanced technological solutions in Power Transmission. The company has always stood out for its ‘innovative’ approach, not only towards its products’ development, but especially with regard to processes like how to realize solutions, the techniques and materials employed, costs rationalization, lead time cut. The increasingly important role of the supply chain within the total company production chain drove the company to structure a supply chain responding to criteria of maximum integration and coordination. The creation of a new selected ‘vendor list’ of qualified partners capable to manage more than a single working step or to supply finished products led to the definition of a core of approximately 30-35 Italian suppliers out of the 170-200 moving around the firm. Brevini aims at strongly integrating with these selected suppliers in order to enhance its whole production process. As Gianpaolo Berghenti, Brevini General Director, points out, ‘one of the main needs was to get equipped with supports, which could on the one hand remove all manual operations related to the management, updating and filing of documents, such as orders and order lines. On the other hand, the need was to allow the greatest sharing of all data flows in view of a rationalization and complete harmonization of inter-company processes’. The first steps towards these goals were the adoption of the management platform JDEdwards, brought to the company in 2000, and the project to create a technical portal as a support to exchange information on the technical documents among the different actors involved in the supply chain. Fabrizio Lasagni, Director of Purchases in Brevini, tells: ‘in 2003, again aiming at harmonizing the different production activities both inside and outside the firm, Brevini Riduttori chose MaNeM, the on-demand software developed by Joinet. Although the existing portal did ease inter-company communication, the need remained for a platform better supplying an integration interface and a single mode of operation capable to connect and allow communication among the different suppliers’. It was thus essential to put at the users’ disposal a solution not disrupting the logic and methods used so far, but rather proving easy to employ and not invasive. In addition, the company saw in MaNeM a tool capable to generate real ‘value added’, allowing to continue and improve a path, which had already witnessed the partial autoimmunization of some procedures, such as purchase orders’ forwarding. Today MaNeM is used by 28 suppliers – some of them belong to the Brevini group – to manage the whole order cycle. The company from Reggio Emilia has involved new users and extended MaNeM employment also to manage bills of lading. Finally, the company is considering the possibility to employ MaNeM platform for invoicing and quality modules. Villan Caleffi, Manager of ‘MaNeM project’, explains: ‘its capacity to generate and spread new information unknown deductively was strategic in order to monitor the ongoing activity and to strengthen the supplying system and purchasing activities’. Brevini Riduttori considered MaNeM easy implementation, its full integration with the management program used and its architecture being flexible and open to new evolutions as key elements in stimulating the partner firms towards a full and fervent growth and evolution path of its management processes in an integrated view. |
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