Rick Carlson, Director of Information Technology, AMD
Solutions Overview
Get the Edge: Intelligent Operations Management
All of our solutions are leading examples of the Intelligent Operations Management software product category that Serus has defined and led, and has been validated for over six years with demanding customers and recognized by industry analysts.
Serus Intelligent Operations Management (IOM) includes data aggregation and content management, including facilities for data cleaning and error resolution, combined with collaboration across the extended enterprise. Our customers recognize that IOM removes the need for large, complex spreadsheets that are difficult to maintain and audit, and that it includes a set of modules for business functions on a platform that supports advanced reporting, decision-making, and action-taking.
Information Architecture
The Serus core information architecture is a “federated content hub for decision support”. The diagram below shows the layers:
This model of content and operations on content is ideally suited to solutions that are based on integrated information. It combines several aspects of reporting and business intelligence with the business process driven concepts.
Here are the functions of each layer:
- Content Management: this focuses on the raw representation of fetched or received content.
- Decision Management: this deals with deriving new information, or setting aside information or changes to values as part of scenarios.
- Goal-Driven Analysis: this deals with creating search routines that will consider different options, toward improving an objective function score. The objective function might be lowest cost, might be shortest delay, etc.
- Presentation: this deals with the screen-building and screen navigation that allows the user to access information at each of the different levels below, from row data to particular scenarios.
Because of the tight coupling between input, analysis, decision, and action, an IOM solution supports short feedback loops that keep your business on track: Consider the amount of time and waste typically required to change production plans due to a supplier availability issue, a product revision, or a unexpected demand spike. Now consider the reduction in such time and waste if the feedback delays were reduced. IOM enables this reduction.
The domain knowledge in our solutions was provided by manufacturing experts within our organization and our partner and customer organizations, to address the unique needs of distributed and outsourced manufacturing companies. Our solutions give you an unprecedented level of visibility and control over your entire manufacturing operation and supply chain. And our connections to the partners you already do business with will help you get real value more quickly.
Serus Solutions Provide:
- Visibility: Serus offers the only end-to-end, integrated solution that provides a full view of the entire manufacturing ecosystem, enabling you to greatly reduce your design to profitability timeframe.
- Control: Serus provides a solution that’s easy to customize, adapting to the way you work, with the ability to give all personnel access only to the data they need.
- Collaboration: Serus provides an integrated, standards-based platform that encompasses all ecosystem participants.
- Affordability: Serus integrates with and complements your existing infrastructure and systems, providing investment protection.
Solutions by Industry:
Fabless Semiconductors: Serus Advantage gives fabless manufacturing firms a complete picture of their outsourced operations.
Major Semiconductors: Serus Enterprise helps major semiconductor manufacturers gain visibility into far-flung outsourced operations for improved decision-making, delivery and profitability.
High-Tech Manufacturing: Serus Lean Operations is tailor-made to help high-tech OEMs and CMs gain more visibility throughout their outsourced manufacturing operations.
Learn more about how Serus can help all facets of your organization, including:
Operations: Effective supplier management to keep you on time and on budget.
Finance: Providing a complete and accurate picture to keep your financial house in order.
IT: Complement and extend your existing IT systems with the Serus Platform and the Serus Ecosystem.
