Glovia Services Launches New GSInnovate eKanban Edition

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--Glovia Services Inc., a subsidiary of Glovia International Inc. and Fujitsu, the world’s third largest IT services provider, today announced its GSInnovate Electronic Kanban (eKanban) Edition business service for manufacturers. This innovative service allows customers to completely transform their Materials Resource Planning (MRP) and production strategies, and integrates seamlessly into their spreadsheet, financial, ERP and CRM systems. GSInnovate eKanban Edition provides customers with an “instant MRP” capabilities toolset that can improve many day-to-day business processes, such as: inventory, production, engineering, shipping and receiving.

“What today’s traditional manufacturing Kanban solutions lack is automation,” said Jim Errington, director of sales support for Glovia Services. “By automating Kanban processes with technology, we are providing customers with much wider and deeper functionality that enables real-time business value that wasn’t experienced before. Now our customers can truly practice lean manufacturing.”

GSInnovate eKanban Edition allows for continual measurement and evaluation of critical manufacturing processes through its comprehensive material tracking and reporting capabilities. With the advanced automation, GSInnovate eKanban Edition elevates Kanban’s simplistic “alert” capabilities to previously unattainable heights. Whereas before, Kanban could only alert low inventory levels, GSInnovate eKanban Edition goes a step further to not only monitor inventory levels, but to trigger automatic replenishment when a predefined minimum for each item is reached, and to analyze and report on these material flows in real-time.

GSInnovate eKanban Edition is accessible via the Web and requires no additional software, hardware or IT staff. Highly flexible in adapting to specific needs, GSInnovate eKanban Edition easily connects to current systems and applications without disruption to a customer’s business and is pre-integrated with the world’s leading on-demand CRM provider.

GSInnovate eKanban Edition can help progressive manufacturers striving to implement Lean Manufacturing principles to:

• Achieve lean inventory management and control
• Reduce time and costs associated with material flows
• Avoid the cost and risk of stock-outs and overproduction
• Respond with speed and agility to changes in demand
• Gain tighter shop floor control

Glovia Services realized that many manufacturers today still rely on outdated strategies that involve material safety stocks, material storage costs and over production of finished goods. GSInnovate eKanban Edition helps manufacturers find the right balance between material flow and production requirements, based on actual customer demand.

“As we move closer to demand-driven supply chains, we realized the need to deliver new technology-based strategies that help manufacturers improve inventory management, material flow and production,” said Randy Ehler, president and CEO of Glovia Services. “GSInnovate eKanban Edition is a technology innovation through which our customers can effectively manage production to meet market demand – while boosting operational efficiency and cash flow, and creating a positive impact on the bottom-line.

To learn more about GSInnovate eKanban Edition or Glovia Services, please visit www.gsinnovate.com.

About Glovia Services, Inc.

Glovia Services Inc. is a subsidiary of Glovia International Inc. and Fujitsu, the world's third largest IT services provider. GSInnovate on-demand manufacturing solutions are designed specifically to address key areas to improve overall business operations. GSInnovate provides customers with quick value, requiring no long-term commitment. Based on its own experience in manufacturing, Glovia Services designed GSInnovate for the specific challenges facing manufacturers today. For more information, please visit www.gsinnovate.com, or call 310-563-8700 or 877-474-8896 (toll free).