The non-conforming material (NCM) processes used in most manufacturing and assembly operations do not take advantage of modern systems to provide timely and accurate recording and reporting of the scrap and vendor rejected materials resulting in an inefficient process. The graphic below shows the traditionally manual process compared to the WhereNet STMS process.

STMS focus is on the non-conforming material (NCM) processes found in manufacturing and assembly operations. Typically, scrap and vendor rejected material is tagged with a hand written scrap or vendor reject tag and then days later entered into the material system. The process is slow and encumbered by lost, inaccurate, and poorly written tags. Resulting in the following conditions:

►   Inflated Balance On hand
►   High Premium Freight
►   Excessive Material Cycle Losses
►   Poor Supplier Cost Recovery
►   Minimal Rework Savings
►   Daily Manual Inventory Audits
►   Delayed Response to Problem Resolution
►   Poor Reporting Capabilities
►   Low Labor Productivity

Additionally, there is no common scrap and vendor reject processes followed across the typical large enterprises resulting in reduced opportunity cost for supplier recovery, poor purchasing negotiation data about material quality, and poor scrap continuous improvement data to measure against. The WhereNet STMS solution will eliminate the manual paper tag process and replace it with a real-time highly visible scrap tracking and management system. Resulting in the following:

The most powerful tool for any supervisor or team leader is accurate, real-time information about the condition and status of the work-in-process. The STMS solution is the first solution to provide such information to today’s manufacturing community.