Technology is a key component in facilitating business transformation initiatives such as Digital Manufacturing. These initiatives deliver value to an organization through automation and enablement of future state processes that bring together people, process, and technology.

Design Group’s proven framework of best practices, methodologies, and tool kits are key drivers for creating a Strategic Plan and Target Operating Model that support client’s vision and business objectives. Our approach captures the objectives of the various business units, geographies, and functions to ensure complete alignment across the entire enterprise.

Our Strategic Engagement Model includes:

• Journey Maps that capture Business Vision and Objectives
• Technology Strategy delivering Strategic and Operating Plans, Target Operating Model
• Future State Business Capabilities, Processes, and Technology Roadmap
• Value Definition, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), and success metrics
• Technology direction, assessment, and prioritization

Design Group is a full service provider for manufacturing and distribution industries.  We provide end-to-end enterprise and technology solutions including Enterprise Resource Planning, Quality Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Asset Management, and Factory Automation.  We partner with leading software providers to deliver solutions that connect the enterprise, enable Smart Manufacturing, and capture the value from your business transformation initiatives. 

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Infor XA New Implementations and Upgrades Training (classroom, Web-based) Products (SMPlus, ReceivePlus, ImportPlus, ECPlus) Infor CloudSuite Industrial Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Configure Price Quote (CPQ) Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Connected Enterprise Application Integration IoT Platforms Custom Development Custom and Mobile Application Development Application Rewrite Workflow and Alerts Data Services and Migration

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Design Group provides expertise to identify, target and rationalize business domains that can manifest into derived value, regardless of the client’s current stage in adopting analytics and reporting.

Our solution teams engage at the executive and operational levels to determine required Analytics capabilities, identify data and information requirements, and plan a course of action to drive an overall Analytics strategy. We collaborate with the current executives and staff to develop an overall adoption plan to yield the best results.

Solutions for Analytics-based strategies and implementations include:

• Enterprise Information Management (EIM) - Optimize information capabilities across your business operations
• Analytics and Reporting - Discover, interpret, and define meaningful patterns and insights of useful information across business and manufacturing operations
• Product Information Management (PIM) - Coordinate, capture, and syndicate product data across the product lifecycle
• Master Data Management Strategy (MDM) - Identify, align, and rationalize master and reference based data across business stakeholders, systems, and processes
• Data Quality - Ensure data consistency across the spectrum of business systems, operating groups, and stakeholders to ensure a positive trending in overall data quality
• Data Collection, Integration and Transformation - Capture and integrate data from various processes and systems

Design Group provides a variety of support services that allow the client to stay focused on core business and IT initiatives. We customize solutions that increase system uptime, improve ticket response time, reduce risk, and optimize resources and costs.

Our solutions include:

• Help Desk
• Application Managed Services
• Server Monitoring and Performance
• Backup and Disaster and Recovery

Design Group focuses on best practice processes to support your Integrated Business Planning (IBP) or Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) needs to optimize resources, lower inventory, and control freight costs.

We provide supply chain solutions that address every area in the supply chain process:

• Sales and Operations Planning
• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Supply Chain Execution
• Planning, Scheduling and Optimization
• Warehouse Management