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PRIMS (Performance Rating Inventory Monitoring Systems)

PRIMS' core strengths were first founded during research and development of Operations Management Systems and Utilities primarily to serve the needs of the mass manufacturing SME community. Our tailored solutions recognise the innate incompatibility of the classic MRP approach with a typical SME's operating and competitive strengths. Rather than seeking to implement yet another inflexible Material Resource Planning dictate, we aim to preserve the autonomous flexibility recognised as inherent strengths of an SME's structure. By aiming to provide timely Decision Support Analyses, our systems are designed to bolster and integrate with Lean Manufacturing (e.g. KanBan/Visual Management) methodologies, empowering management holons to make better informed decisions when, for example;

• setting the operating parameters for self-managing lean systems, 
• high-level & rough-cut capacity planning,
• assessing on-hand component inventory longevity,
• reviewing operating costs,
• pricing jobs, 
• valuing stock-on-hand and calculating holding costs,
• identifying bottlenecks,
• monitoring wastage/shrinkage,
• appraising productivity, et cetera.

Wherever possible we will leverage any information in your existing systems, often mapping real-time Sales and Purchasing data from your accounting systems against the PrimS model of your work-shop and operations. For example we may provide a Microsoft Access interface to your Sage accounting package, driving the demand model directly from on-the-books and forecast sales data, while also incorporating current inventory levels. This allows you to analyse and view the data in the precise format which works best with your business processes, all at the press of a button or two.