Critical Manufacturing Processes Run Smoothly With Application Performance Management (APM)

Applications that manage manufacturing supply chain processes must continuously perform at high levels to get products and goods to market quickly and cost-effectively.

The problem is nearly every manufacturer customizes these applications to suit particular requirements. The result is a landscape of complex, highly customized, multi-vendor solutions with many parts, all prone to suboptimal performance.

The performance impact on the business can be huge. In fact, the average manufacturer suffers 61 hours of downtime each year⁽¹⁾, and one survey calculated that the cost of IT downtime in the area of supply chain planning in the automotive industry can run up to $22,000 a minute.⁽²⁾

An application performance glitch anywhere along the manufacturing supply chain can critically impact business operations and the bottom line.

Despite this, many manufacturers struggle to gain visibility into the true performance of their supply chain applications. Compuware Application Performance Management (APM) can provide this much needed insight and capability.

“Supply chain disruptions can reduce shareholder value by as much as 8 to 10 percent, or even worse in ‘time-sensitive’ environments where early market introduction is critical to success.”⁽³⁾

End-to-end Unified Visibility of Manufacturing  Supply Chain Applications

Compuware APM is the industry’s leading solution for optimizing the performance of manufacturing web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, it’s a new generation of application performance management (APM) that provides the only unified coverage of the manufacturing supply chain — from global suppliers, through the cloud, and to the data center — with deep insight that traces every transaction from user-click to code-line.

This visibility helps manufacturers pinpoint and validate the supply chain performance issue, understand the context — such as geographic location, error condition or performance characteristics — and then relay deep actionable information for impact analysis, prioritization and rapid resolution.

Top Global Manufacturing Companies Rely on Compuware APM

When it comes to important manufacturing operations, top manufacturing companies know that optimal performance of their global supply chain applications is critical to their businesses. That’s why top manufacturing companies, such as Audi, Dole Foods, General Motors, Dell, and Heinz, rely on Compuware APM to ensure excellent performance of their manufacturing supply chain applications. No other company offers this total visibility in an APM solution.

1) Liam McGlynn, Enterprise Management Associates.

http://www.itsmsolutions.com/newsletters/DITYvol5iss10.htm.

2) Survey Commissioned by Advanced Technology Services, Inc. (ATS),  conducted by Nielsen Research.

3) Report: “Reducing the Impact of Disruptions to the Supply Chain,” SAS.