Manufacturing

The Manufacturing Industry and Spigit



Overview: Manufacturing companies view technology and business innovation in both products and processes as key to transforming their organizations. The application of IT for creativity and innovation in manufacturing has a greater potential than what has been realized across the manufacturing industry in general. Success in an increasingly competitive and disruptive global manufacturing marketplace will depend on innovation, with IT advancing value-added initiatives from the research laboratory, the product design team and the manufacturing operations.

Challenge: Few sectors are more competitive or cutthroat than the manufacturing industry, making the need for innovation that much higher. Managing the supply chain from the producers to the consumers is a difficult task that companies large and small have had difficulty with for years. Organizing partners and maintaining communication between employees, while coming up with innovative products is a struggle for any company, but is even more pressing for manufacturing firms.

Solution: Spigit's most basic feature is increasing communication across the workplace and between partners, but can be used for much more. Creating new techniques to improve inventory control, order fulfillment, shipping and logistics are some of the manufacturing industry's problems that can be solved using Spigit's powerful innovation platform. Staying ahead of the market is a difficult task and is almost impossible to do alone.

Use Spigit for Manufacturing with:

EnterpriseSpigit - leverage your expansive employee base for the brightest ideas
  • Full suite of social software tools: forums, blogs, wikis, social profiles, activity streams and tags
  • Advanced analytics engine for finding the best ideas among all contributions
  • Idea trading market allows employees to buy and sell ideas
  • and much more...
ContestSpigit - propose challenges and contests to your public base of support
  • Easy access via customer self-registration
  • Sharing of ideas via popular social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  • Full set of APIs for integration with other applications and sites
  • and much more...
PredictionSpigit - cut costs and reduce risk with accurate forecasting
  • Forecast project milestones, sales, and other events more accurately
  • Gain deep insight into your communities, tune your platform to your specified needs
  • Offer tangible rewards for useful contributions
  • and much more...


Benefits

Improve research and development, improve employee morale, increase customer loyalty and drive bottom line growth. Learn how.
Participation

Increase participation with IdeaSpigit 's built-in rewards and incentive program. Learn More.
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