Unilever Expands Relationship With Informance in the Americas
08 März 2010 - 1:45PM
Marketwired
Informance International, a leader in manufacturing business and
enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions, announced today
that Unilever (NYSE: UL) (NYSE: UN), one of the world's largest
consumer packaged goods companies, has chosen to expand the
deployment of the Informance software solution across all of its
plants in the Americas. The deployment is part of Unilever's Total
Productive Maintenance program (TPM) aimed at enhancing
manufacturing performance in efficiency and quality across the
region.
The move toward a standardized approach to drive and sustain
manufacturing operations performance is the next chapter in the
long-time relationship between Unilever and Informance. Unilever's
expansion into additional plants, including those in the ice cream
business, brings to 21 the number of plants utilizing this
technology and includes Informance's software-as-a-service (SaaS)
hosted solution. The system and software allows manufacturers to
leverage real-time performance intelligence in order to assess
improvement opportunities, align plant tactics with corporate
strategies, and exercise the most efficient use of the information
to sustain the effects of operational excellence activities.
According to Terry Herber, Mgr. Supply Chain Capabilities
Americas of Unilever, "Informance allows us to apply TPM loss
elimination principles across our plants. For many years, we have
used Informance in plants to tackle OEE (overall equipment
effectiveness). We now have visibility of this information
regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement
gains across multiple factories."
Consumer goods manufacturers are constantly looking at improving
efficiencies across their supply chains. Global manufacturers
report that simple OEE tools are not adequate to drive the
improvement agenda, and leading manufacturers look to solutions
that deliver facts, pervasive visibility, and maximum knowledge
transfer, along with real-time data to drive their efficiency and
optimization plans.
"We are proud to partner with Unilever to help them achieve
their performance goals," comments Sunil Singh, CEO of Informance.
"It's not just about helping them advance their operational
excellence initiative, but further enabling them to quantify and
report the financial impact of improvements, and to contribute to
financial performance through those actions that will have the
greatest impact with the least investment."
Informance is already a leading provider of Manufacturing
Intelligence solutions, leading the market in offering Enterprise
Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) Software as A Services (SaaS)
subscription solutions. "This on-site hosted model has enormous
benefits for Unilever for deploying on a regional scale," said John
Oskin, Executive Vice President of Informance. "Informance Advisory
Services, coupled with a quick deployment model, will enable us to
accelerate the impact on their operations."
About Unilever Unilever's mission is to
add vitality to life. They meet everyday needs for nutrition,
hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good,
look good and get more out of life. Unilever is one of the world's
leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local
roots in more than 100 countries across the globe. Its portfolio
includes some of the world's best known and most loved brands
including thirteen EUR 1 billion brands and global leadership in
many categories in which the company operates. The portfolio
features brand icons such as Knorr, Wall's, Flora, Dove, Axe/Lynx,
Omo/Persil/Skip, Marmite and Pot Noodle. Unilever has around
174,000 employees in approaching 100 countries and generated annual
sales of EUR 40 billion in 2009. More information about Unilever
and its brands can be found at www.unilever.com.
About Informance International Informance
delivers Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions to
help clients accelerate operational performance initiatives, drive
operating strategies and capture actionable insight; measured by
speed-to-value. Using Informance, manufacturing teams can drive
corporate initiatives like Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and other
continuous improvement methods. Clients quickly unlock hidden
capacity, increase productivity without additional capital
investment, reduce inventory and labor costs, and increase working
capital. To learn more, visit www.informance.com, call
1-877-464-6262 or e-mail info@informance.com.
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