Released on = March 20, 2006, 1:46 pm

Press Release Author = Kelly Pryor

Industry = Telecommunications

Press Release Summary = Build-to-Order Manufacturing Environment Most Effective in
Digital Kanban

Press Release Body = Increasingly manufacturers are moving to a customer-based
build-to-order model and away from a build-to-stock approach. Digital kanban is the
latest and most fine tuned iteration of this technique which started with paper
(card) kanban, then electronic kanban, and now real-time digital kanban.

According to Matthew Marotta, founder of Datacraft Solutions, "Pressure to reduce
lead times, expanding product lines, and global competition drives the value of
digital kanban, a lean manufacturing practice that automates consumption driven
replenishment across suppliers, customers, and the factory floor."

Digital kanban aligns inventory levels with actual consumption; a signal is sent to
produce and deliver a new shipment when material is consumed. These signals are
tracked through the replenishment cycle and bring extraordinary visibility to
suppliers and buyers. Working seamlessly with existing visual board systems,
Datacraft Solutions' Digital Kanban solution allows individual cells or entire
supply chains to realize an immediate and dramatic return from an extremely small
process automation investment, by vastly reducing the management time and
information gathering required to monitor, update and transmit card-based
replenishment needs.

Digital Kanban pioneer Datacraft Solutions, Inc. (www.datacraftsolutions.com) is
based in Durham, North Carolina. Marrotta notes, "Datacraft Solutions'
Internet-based on-demand delivery platform offers key benefits from the very
beginning of an implementation - namely, the elimination of lengthy, complicated and
expensive infrastructure upgrades before a company can even begin to see positive
ROI. There is simply no faster or easier way to begin exploiting the power of
Digital Kanban in a lean manufacturing operation." The ASP model provides global
visibility into the plant floor from anywhere in the world, with nothing to install
and no software to maintain.






Web Site = http://www.datacraftsolutions.com

Contact Details = Datacraft Solutions
www.datacraftsolutions.com
Kelly Pryor
media@datacraftsolutions.com
800-819-5326