ForeSight: Your Window into Custom Order Readiness
By focusing on individual customer orders, ForeSight gives you visibility into whether an order will be filled complete and on the original promised date, from the moment it hits the Order Entry system.
And if there are potential roadblocks, it identifies how to remove them in enough time to do so without requiring the personal heroics often needed today.
This table summarizes ForeSight's benefits, which are more fully explained by clicking on the links in the table or on the right navigation.
| What ForeSight Does | Why You Care |
| Provides early warnings of future problems that will prevent timely shipments of customer orders, based on a holistic view of production schedules, labor and material resources, and ship dates. | Lets you prevent delays or shortages before they happen, or allows enough time to implement remedies without manual workarounds, excessive variable costs, or last-minute heroics. |
| Provides prioritized task lists suggesting actions to be taken by appropriate operations personne to remedy the problem. | Offers not only visibility into the problem but the best way to fix it considering the total demands on parts and personnel for all order commitments. |
| Complements existing planning systems, using their data to track progress of sales orders from the moment they are entered until the moment they ship. | Leverages existing investments while giving you an order-centric view planning systems can’t provide, allowing for mass customization at controllable cost. |
| Automates, enforces, and sustains Lean manufacturing principles, providing end-to-end visibility of the readiness of each high- and component-level item in an order. | Highlights the impact of unplanned events before they become crises that put orders at risk. |
| Gives your customers secure access to status of their orders from any browser | Impresses your customers with your service, communication, and control of your business – leading to more profitable growth. |