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Title: Raytheon Gets Tracking: A materials management application...

Author: King, Julia Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Computerworld, v38 n29 p23(2) Publication Date: Jul 19, 2004
  ISSN: 0010-4841
  Illustrations: Charts, Photographs
URL of Publication: http://www.computerworld.com

Raytheon's Network Centric Systems (NCS) business unit built MTrak, a materials management application that was originally developed to track materials in the supply chain for the defense contractor's NCS unit. Raytheon soon discovered that the application had other mission-critical functionality for enterprise-wide supply chains in other areas of the company and is fast becoming a tremendous cost-savings application. The NCS business unit set out to build a system that allowed visibility to all employees into the supply chain via a Web browser. NCS wanted to be able to track the lifecycle of materials, such as capacitors and customized computer chips, from ordering and receiving to testing, inventorying, and manufacturing into Raytheon products. NCS had to deal with multiple business processes and be able to integrate data from numerous incompatible mainframes. It then had to be able to make it Web accessible. Now MTrak is Raytheon's supply-chain data application. MTrak is the reason that lost and missing parts, as well as other inventory issues, have been eradicated. Thus far, Raytheon has saved $8.6 million and projects to save $26 million within a four-year period.

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