Elimination of Waste

Knowledge worker
OTTO supports manufacturing management with information specifically tailored and structured for each functional area. The result is actionable information quickly available and easy to use. The on-demand inquiries and reports provided by OTTO eliminate the need for off-the-system manual hot lists, expedite reports, and excel spreadsheets and databases.

“Unit” views
The “unit” concept incorporated into OTTO supports the grouping of information consistent with the manner in which manufacturing is managed. (Note: Unit can be an item, a customer order, customer PO, machine serial number, project, or truck load.)

Response times and information completeness
A quick response to information requests requires that the lead time to respond be shortened, while the level of detail and timeliness increases. OTTO provides actionable information, on demand, through inquiries and reports.

Demand-Pull
OTTO shows demands and supplies required to achieve the customer order shipment.
OTTO provides direct linkage from the customer order to shipping, materials, production, procurement and receiving in support of each customer order.

Customer-Centric Priorities
Any successful company must satisfy the essential customer requirement, to ship the customer order on time. It stands to reason then that manufacturing must be focused on the customer order as the priority. OTTO communicates these “customer-centric priorities” to manage plant and vendor activities to accomplish the on-time shipment of the customer order.

Just-in-Time
OTTO provides downstream to upstream time-phased actionable information to achieve just-in-time materials and production activities.

Supply Methodologies
OTTO functionality supports multiple methods of manufacture replenishment such as order based (work order), flow based (orderless), and kanban.
• Execute your plan despite delays, disruptions or changes.