Isix provides services to assist with both strategic and tactical initiatives as follows:
Strategic Planning
Isix specializes in strategic consulting on business processes. Through the configuration and use of Oracle Applications, Isix can help you realize significant operational improvements to your business. Examples of our success in delivering operational improvements include:
- Assessment and modeling of mixed-mode and hybrid manufacturing operations, blending discrete, process and flow operations at the operational level to achieve desired control, costing and reporting performance indicators
- Evaluation, process design and benefit analysis for make-to-order (MTO) vs. make-to-stock (MTS) replenishment models, with consideration of guided selling, quotations, order configuration and capture, material ATP, demand scheduling, engineering bills & routings and planning
- Consideration of standard vs. actual vs. project accounting processes, including burdening, lean costing techniques, variance tracking, overhead absorption, cost apportionment and expense costing. Costing methodologies are built to comply with industry, regulatory and audit standards.
- Analysis and design of material control and supply chain replenishment models, including inventory organization, stocking and locator control – Isix provides comparative analysis between Forecasting/MPS/MRP, reorder point, min‐max and Kanban systems
- Audit and remediation of procurement and sourcing processes to leverage known business relationships, document automation, simplified receipt and payments
Tactical Objectives
Rely on Isix specialists to achieve tactical objectives related to all aspects of production, such as:
- Conducting master data modeling to remediate items, bills of materials and routings to maximize Oracle Applications functionality and improve reporting
- Designing quality data collection solutions for incoming, work in process, final and material review board inspection processes
- Putting together material control strategies to meet traceability and audit needs
- Identifying and implementing business rules and logic for warehouse put away, cycle counting, picking and shipment consolidation tasking
- Automating MRP, requisitions, approved supplier lists and sourcing rules to improve efficiencies and streamline document processing
