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Industries:

  • Manufacturing

Offering Groups:

  • Solutions
  • Software

Solution Areas:

  • Enterprise Resource Planning

Regions:

  • United States

Challenges:

  • Need to manage both its standard and technical contracts and projects
  • Need to streamline financial and customer service operations

Benefits:

  • Maintained same size purchasing staff while tripling revenues
  • Implemented combined standard cost and project system for cost visibility

Daktronics

Daktronics Reduces Engineering-to-Manufacturing Cycle Times

Enterprise-Wide Visibility, Improved Responsiveness and Streamlined Processes Spur Electronics Manufacturer to New Competitive Heights

Walk down Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, and you can't miss them – the huge "light murals" encircling the lower floors of Lehman Brothers' headquarters building. Or, in San Francisco, hop on a commuter rail car belonging to that city's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), and the directional displays in the cars and stations will guide you on your way. Several hundred miles to the south, take in a Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball game at Dodger Stadium, and keep track of that action on the brand-new DodgerVision scoreboard and video display. The murals, commuters rail displays and scoreboard couldn't be more different. Yet, they're all produced by the same company: Daktronics, Inc. Based in Brookings, S.D, Daktronics is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic scoreboards, computer-programmable displays and large-screen video display/control systems for the sports, business and transportation industries.

Managing the inner workings of an electronics manufacturer producing highly complex systems is never easy and it becomes even more difficult when you're building a mix of custom and standard products. Light murals and the Dodgers' scoreboard are obviously custom, or technical contract, projects for Daktronics. But the company also builds more universal products, for example, LED signage for roadways, high school gym scoreboards and billboard display systems.

For years, Daktronics attempted to manage both its standard and technical contract manufacturing via an MRP solution. Yet in the end, that proved only a half-measure.


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