  |  | | ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT EPM Software Solutions
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications promise to be the intelligence, or “brains,” that allow manufacturers to better leverage all their assets. Showing managers current performance against goals helps sharpen the focus on hotspot problems and available opportunities that drive results. The ultimate goal is to provide integrated information views from “the shop floor to the boardroom.” Today's graphic “dashboards” provide personally configurable snapshot displays of key performance indicators (KPIs). With a more accurate view of performance, managers and staff can make better decisions more quickly that will improve profitability and market success. Key benefits include: - Ability to see performance in context, to make decisions that will meet and exceed business objectives
- Ability to see the impact of changes on costs, revenues and customer satisfaction
- Ability to achieve continuous improvement goals
Unfortunately, most EPM initiatives fail to embrace operations and collaborative manufacturing. Further, most are not effectively tied to operational systems that deliver performance. It is a bit like providing a car with a dashboard, but providing no steering or brakes to respond to the displayed information. Applied Materials' EPM and simulation software solutions provide real-time data access, visualization, analytics, simulation, and decision support for adaptive manufacturing decision-making. We believe that EPM is the brain of the Real-Time Enterprise. Competing in real-time means quickly adapting to change and EPM provides the alerts, data visualization, and analytics for adaptive manufacturing decision-making. Applied Materials delivers real-time EPM systems that do the following: - Actively “listen” and alert you to important events triggered from multiple sources—including MES, Quality, ERP, and supply chain systems
- Aggregate, transform, and personalize that data for your specific manufacturing targets
- Deliver performance indicators through various means such as real-time “dashboards”, scorecards or simple notification by active agents
- Apply business logic and decision-making analytics to accelerate manufacturing responsiveness
- Simulate alternative scenarios for process optimization
- Integrate to manufacturing systems to drive decisions back into manufacturing for execution
  
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