SCM as a management tool to realize conformity to demand and cutting inventory are has to make the right plans for purchasing and manufacturing. For this, manufacturing centers and sales departments have to have the right information at real time. Also, with manufacturing centers moving across seas and the increasing amount of outsourced manufacturing, information exchange between centers and companies have become a daily affair. ERP proposes to play the role of the base (ex: standardizing order information & actual manufacturing information) for this information exchange. At Fujitsu, for global purchasing we have implemented glovia.com as our basic information system in our manufacturing centers and using it as a practical form of purchasing, increasing the precision of the data, while venturing into data sharing with manufacturing centers and suppliers. Here, Fujitsu plans to shorten the period for purchasing and manufacturing plans by having necessary volume calculation, contract information, supplier quote, delivery time, registering inventory and eliminating time lag due to time differences. Also, glovia.com provides functions to realize SCM for the automotive industry, while Manugistics's SCP software 'Supply-C' and integrated GLOVIA/SCP provide a SCM solution.
As the internet becomes a part of the basic infrastructure in today's society, e-commerce transactions and traditional business transaction methods will need to exist side by side. But in both these methods, the presence of a well integrated back office mechanism encompassing ERP to allow speedy delivery date notifications and real time inventory information to increase customer satisfaction and lower cost is very important. glovia.com integrates seamlessly with glovia.e which was announced last month. GLOVIA consists of 3 layers : Front office layer, Back office layer and Management office layer. In the Internet age Web browsers and not Client servers will be the main current. In this point glovia.e will be integrated as the Front Office Layer.
Up to now we have supported the implementation in 880 sites worldwide including Ericsson and Advantest. Average implementation time is 6-9 months outside of Japan and 9-12 months within Japan. With the cooperation of Fujitsu's overseas SI centers and GLOVIA International centers, we plan to use our strength of global support to continue providing unhindered implementation support to our customers.
