Need to reduce inventories and improve visibility of operations in outsourced manufacturing environment.
Business Objectives
The Manufacturing Work-In-Process (WIP) Program will automate manufacturing factory floor information exchanges to reduce inventories and allow for more flexible operations.
Automation of inquiries and responses for work-in-process (WIP) on the manufacturing factory floor will enable better WIP visibility -- reducing inventories and allowing for more flexible operations.
Target Supply-Chain Roles
IDM/Fabless -- Foundry Fab
IDM/Fabless -- Assembly/Test
Foundry -- Assembly/Test
IDM/Fabless/Foundry -- Material Supplier
Value Proposition
Significant reduction of manual WIP status requests and reports.
Deeper penetration of PIP® deployments into the supply chain
Roadmap
Phase 1 activity developed the original WIP process (3D8 & 3D9).
Phase 2 activity to validate and deploy the new WIP (7B1) process and enable adoption of the WIP standard.
