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The widespread use of mobile devices and the internet has boosted interest in enterprise mobility across a range of industries but has also brought forth unique enterprise mobility challenges. Also, this covers remote access to the workplace, productivity, and business process transformation. To ensure more efficient business operations in sectors like manufacturing, companies look for real-time, updated information sources like online or mobile apps. Addressing enterprise mobility challenges is crucial for unlocking these operational improvements and seizing digital advantages.
This blog throws light on some of the critical enterprise mobility challenges that a manufacturing sector could face, and how an enterprise mobile solution could be a gamechanger in plugging those challenges, while transforming their overall business landscape.
ERP often encounters common challenges in the manufacturing industry. Certainly, your business deals with such issues too. Here are the top 8 enterprise mobility challenges that a manufacturing industry needs to encounter to maintain its competitiveness in the market:
Let’s see how you can solve these enterprise mobility challenges effortlessly with legacy ERP software and modern enterprise mobility solutions.
Currently, manual data entry in manufacturing centers is used for activities like shop floor, part details, and inventory audits. This method leads to low productivity, waste of time, and difficulty tracking the data. Oracle enterprise mobility solutions, combined with data collection techniques like RFID and Barcode scan, have transformed decision-making. Addressing these specific enterprise mobility challenges ensures errors are minimized, resources are saved, and real-time communication is enabled between systems.
Poor inventory control results in stock shortages, high lead times, overstocking, overbuying, or underbuying of supplies to meet demand. Moreover, delays in inventory control negatively impact customer satisfaction and the company’s costs. Tackling enterprise mobility challenges in inventory allows Oracle enterprise mobile solutions to enable real-time inventory tracking, faster stock replenishment, and better inventory management.
Companies face challenges in providing quality products and services while adhering to industry and government regulations. Manual or legacy IT systems make compliance management difficult. However, the company’s policies and regulatory guidelines complied via mobile apps reduce audit burden for enterprises. Real-time compliance management thus directly addresses these enterprise mobility concerns.
Optimizing a company's operations can be obstructed due to lack of coordination that hinders inter-departmental coordination. By implementing mobile solutions and RFID technology, these barriers are overcome—accelerating receipt, back-order reporting, and inventory management.
“Stronger integration between internal departments helps companies in better responsiveness to its customers.”
Decision makers receive critical statistics and reports from their complex and expensive ERPs late due to delayed and inconsistent data collection—one of the clearest enterprise mobility challenges. What use are these ERPs when the required information is not credible and readily available? Managers often make improper decisions, resulting in high opportunity costs due to limited information or delays in access. Avoid bad decisions with real-time information through mobile apps.
“Never wait for information. Let the information wait for you. Make it possible with Oracle enterprise mobile solutions.”
Ensure that the right person is allocated to the right problem with the right information by using mobile platforms combined with service apps. This improves customer service and mitigates the critical challenges of call cancellations or delays.
Mobile solutions aim to enhance business processes, improve information availability, and deliver higher shareholder value, cost savings, and productivity for organizations—addressing cost-related challenges.
ERP tools are often used by employees, but they are clunky and quite unfriendly. After all, mobile solutions offer a better user experience, productivity, and are easy to customize. Overcoming this challenge could significantly impact production centers, sales, HR, and finance.
Leverage the industry's widest application footprint to maximize mobility across manufacturing operations, including quality, production, warehousing, and time/labor.
To learn how the Propel Apps’ mobile supply chain management solution for Oracle helps your organization overcome the typical challenges listed above, while improving the overall efficiency and productivity, schedule a free demo with us.
Propel Apps, an award-winning enterprise mobility solutions provider, designs custom strategies to overcome enterprise mobility challenges for organizations using Oracle and SAP ERPs. With over 100 mobile app project implementations, Propel Apps helps organizations redefine business processes across industries, including wholesale, retail, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and logistics.
