Manufacturing & Retail
Bringing innovative and cost-competitive products to market has led manufacturing companies to expand investments in technology enablers such as SEO/SEM, Ecommerce, Social Marketing, Business Intelligence, and back-office supply chain integration technologies like SAP.
Y&L brings industry expertise covering a variety of manufacturing and retail nuances. We understand manufacturing criticalities, procurement, production, shop floor control, sales, customer management, quality, and supply chain management.
Y&L solutions provide strategic IT advantages across all aspects of operations through strong technology and business-focused capabilities in enterprise resource planning, supply chain integration, and customer relationship management for manufacturing.
Some of our manufacturing/retail clients include Harland Clarke, HEB Grocery, Solar Turbines, Darden Restaurants, au bon pain, HON, Caterpillar, Cisco, Chemtura, Littlefuse, Stanley Works, RR Donnelley, Andrew, Monsanto, DOW, Construction Specialties, PharMerica, Rackspace, John Deere, Chemours, Charles River, Smith & Nephew and Merck.
Remote Monitoring Of Chemical Discharge Using DJI Drones
Y&L drone solutions coupled with state-of-the-art technology helps industrial Chemical Companies become EHS compliant with timely detection of operational anomalies in chemical discharge and respond quickly to critical situations like discharge color aberration, thermal temperature variance, detection of fumes & smoke, and fire detection with improved accuracy and lower cost.
It is an unnerving task for any chemical manufacturing company to carry out jobs like inspecting seas, ponds and lakes for hazardous chemical discharge. Moreover, companies must comply with health and safety standards which is not only difficult but also entails enormous risk and cost. With a problem in search of a solution, the Y&L chemical discharge remote monitoring solution allows users to access a live feed and monitor the change in defined parameters or status from a remote location.
The drone is enabled with IOT sensors to collect real-time data to carry-out predictive analysis for detecting any harmful incidents/accidents.
Remote monitoring of chemical discharge using DJI Drones allows for continuous monitoring of contaminated and difficult to reach environments, thermal imaging for temperature variance, detection of possible dangers and timely alerts to prevent mistakes. Intelligent drone usage overcomes human limitations by carrying out in-depth analysis, improve safety and compliance, risk and cost reduction associated with monitoring.
Y&L’s solution consists of a powerful integration of the following: DJI Drone SDK, Power Apps Mobile Application, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics & Reporting, Power of Cloud, Automated Workflows, Predictive Analytics, Internet of Things (sensors), Azure Cognitive Service.
Certified Industry Solutions
Our Industrial Manufacturing IT solutions are aligned with your business needs and tailored using advanced technologies. Y&L provides ManufacturingOne, an SAP Business All-in-One solution for mid-size enterprises. Comprehensive, powerful and pre-packaged, ManufacturingOne enables you to quickly respond to market fluctuations and provides for accurate forecasting and production planning.
ManufacturingOne
ManufacturingOne streamlines the process by providing a single, central location for submitting new project requests. It clearly assesses benefits versus risks, benchmarks, and other areas of a proposed project prior to moving forward.
ManufacturingOne delivers the necessary tools to improve business performance:
- Efficient management of channel partners and demand
- Quick and accurate forecasting, planning and responding to ever-changing market demands
- Optimized internal manufacturing processes
- Built-in support of industry best practices providing system flexibility to meet unique company needs. Scalable to meet future business growth requirements.
ManufacturingOne includes all of the tools necessary to get business up and running in a matter of weeks.
SAP HANA features the usage of a cutting edge in-memory database, enabling companies to access analytical and operational data together in real-time, maximizing the performance capabilities of the industry specific ERP solution. Organizations simplify their IT landscape by eliminating up to 50% of the number of typical servers, enabling faster reporting and transactional instances. Offering advanced features for enhanced user experience, analytics, and data management, SAP All-In-One solutions powered by HANA are guaranteed to accelerate and maximize business performance.
Key Features of ManufacturingOne
ManufacturingOne includes all of the tools necessary to get business up and running in a matter of weeks.
SAP HANA features the usage of a cutting edge in-memory database, enabling companies to access analytical and operational data together in real-time, maximizing the performance capabilities of the industry specific ERP solution. Organizations simplify their IT landscape by eliminating up to 50% of the number of typical servers, enabling faster reporting and transactional instances. Offering advanced features for enhanced user experience, analytics, and data management, SAP All-In-One solutions powered by HANA are guaranteed to accelerate and maximize business performance.
ManufacturingOne Supports Your Business Needs
Sales and Distribution
- Sales Quotations
- ETO – Quotations
- Configure to Order/ Make To Order Sales
- Returns & Complaints
- Third Party with Shipping Notification
- Sales with Scheduling Agreements
- Third Party Order with Subcontracting
- Advance Delivery Schedule with OEM’s
Financial Accounting
- Financial Global
- General Ledger
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Bank Accounting
- Period End Closing in Financial Accounting
Integration with Third Party Systems
- ADP
- Payroll
- Kronos
Procurement
- Procurement Contracts
- Procurement of Materials and Services
- Subcontracting
- Vendor Evaluation and Returns
- Consumable Purchasing
- Reorder Point Planning
- Safety Stock
Warehouse Management
- Inbound and Outbound Shipping
- Paperless Put Away and Picking
- Inventory Management
- Handling Unit Management
- Wave Picking
- Batch Management
BOBJ Dashboards & Reports
- Discrete Manufacturing
Manufacturing
- Make to Order, Engineer to Order, Make to Stock
- Production Subcontracting
- Tool Production
- Scheduling & Capacity Planning
- ECM (Engineering Change Management)
- Manufacturing Execution
- Serial Number Management
- Quality Management
Profitability & Cost Management
- Overhead Cost Accounting Actual
- Cost Center Planning
- Internal Orders
- Standard Cost Calculation
- Cost Object Controlling
- Profitability Analysis by Customer, Product, Product line
Solution Add–Ons
- Project Systems
- APO – PP/DS
- MES
- Plant Maintenance/ EAM
- Warranties
- Customer Services
- RF Handheld integration
- Shipment
- EDI Integration
- SNC (Supply network Collaboration)
- Document Management System
- Integration to PLM
- KANBAN/Cell Manufacturing/Sequence Production
- Asset Accounting
Case Studies
One of the largest Power Transmission companies in the U.S. had issues with their existing Enterprise Data Management (EDM) strategy and framework not adequately managing their asset inventory data. In working with Y&L, we created and implemented a new EDM system for the client that would more effectively: Provide asset monitoring and management Predict asset…
Our client, who operates optical retail stores across 36 states, was looking to perform a major POS system upgrade. All of the servers and POS stations were upgraded via remote access through Microsoft RDM. Hardware was shipped out in waves to the stores. Once received, Y&L technical support would call each store and walk them…
A major turbine manufacturer out on the West Coast, had a significant issue with handling imports from other countries into their main distribution facility. Import jobs were commonly 20 pages long, containing 300 line items. The long manual process required manually looking up each item approximately three times. Each part number had to be manually…
One of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the United States reached out to Y&L to provide operations management and helpdesk support to IT end users to include after-hours and offsite support. Y&L provides ongoing helpdesk support through Level 1 & 2 Techs, Network Administrators and Helpdesk supervisors. The…
A global manufacturer of Agriculture & Irrigation products decided to mobile enable their key web business applications. Y&L was chosen as the system and technology partner for the program mentioned above. The Y&L testing team provided end-end testing services that include test strategy & planning, functionality/regression testing, Integration testing, l18N & L10N testing and device…
A New Jersey-based manufacturing company wanted to uncover insight around their quoting lifecycle; won vs. lost quotes in comparison to all quotes. Using Tableau as a front-end reporting tool, the Y&L Analytics & Data Science team began comparing operational performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) established for the client. Our first KPI was the Closing…
Many businesses struggle to find professional IT developers that fit a specific niche. Our client, an industry leader in providing integrated payment solutions, marketing services, and retail products, was no different. The company faced challenges in finding professional IT contractors skilled in Oracle ATG, a niche skill set. Many of the professionals they came across…
Retail client wanted to analyze customer comments using text analytics. Customer calls into the Service Center are captured and saved in a raw text format. Y&L analysts extracted Service Center data and derived sentiment utilizing latent Dirichlet allocation, text pooling, and clustering algorithms in R. This data was first explored via Word Clouds from clusters…
