Primary study

To

Implement

Project

Title

The Electronic Factory ( e-Factory project)

1-Location

e-Factory is an Egyptian product designed for make-to-order and make-to-stock manufacturers and not limited the typical industry, and it works under Egyptian financial system. The project will be located in 6^th October industrial city, but support all the production and manufacturing organization around Egypt.

2 Summary

e-Factory is a logical factory has a huge production facilities and unlimited market,

e-Factory is the first Internet - based service to specifically target small to mid-sized, manufacturers and to provide the robust functionality of the Egyptian manufacturers and their production facilities, class business and production systems that until now were feasible only for large enterprises. It allows the producer to follow his business and production functionality, production, materials management, engineering, and other production process anywhere.

e-Factory is an outsourcing manufacturing facility designed for make-to-order and make-to-stock manufacturers, it provide the manufacturer to use al the facilities of e-Factory members production lines to produce and trace the required product and to determined his delivery order location under certified quality control system and bank control.

e-Factory members includes the following:

1-Presenters: which include all production organizations categorized according to industry and productions facility with money transfer assurance. e-Factory presents for them

· Resources & experience.

· Quality standards.

· Production (lines, routs, tasks, materials, manpower, etc.).

· IT systems & capabilities.

2- Requesters: which include manufacturers (can be manufacturer, broker, investor) wish to use outsourcing one or more production lines with quality control assurance (Request)

· Manufacturing facilities.

· Raw materials, semi / finished products and/or services

e-Factory provides manufacturing software interfaces for small to mid-sized, large make-to-order manufacturers.

e-Factory deal with the producer as a production lines owner during processing his tasks, the producer can be broker, investor, or actual manufacturer has no factory and wish to use all the facilities and time available on some factories production lines to produce a typical product.

As well as getting on-line manufacturing, industrial trading and community information - e-Factory gives outsourcing production requester access to his business and supply chain information via e-Factory specific software interfaces to most of ERP applications.

e-Factory has extended privileges to publish and disseminate the business information across the organization and selectively to other e-Factory Members.

e-Factory provides the tools to fully utilize every aspect of the business. With the help of e-Factory, service and production requester can get access to flexible, innovative service programs to help him bring his plant into production quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.

e-Factory is configured to suit each business need - sharing data with employees, customers and suppliers over the Internet (for example sharing information about inventory of each supplier).it gives access to real-time production applications, on-line trading and supply chain portals.

e-Factory, allow the access to own unique, personalized manufacturing portal. It provides the infrastructure; security and applications to transform previously disconnected business transactions into a single process.

e-Factory allows to access to production order in the real time where the payment release according to production process under bank control . e-Factory allows to its members to specify exactly what they want to buy. Or, if they are a seller it lets them compete on things such as price, quantity and quality in order to win new business

e-Factory allows to choose a business as a host to apply the most required software applications to be as a model for other similar business.

e-Factory provides Integrated Services for e-Business in Manufacturing including online trading, Real-time production portal and Business Applications Interfaces .

e-Factory Products

• Presenter Membership

• Manufacturers orientation program for traditional Presenters

• Providing MES&ERP solution consultancy and Interfaces for qualified Presenters

• Payment on production/delivery tracing system for Presenters (under bank control)

• Requester Membership

• RFP/RFQ fill down system for Requesters

• Production tracing system for Requesters

• Online money transfer and Bank account check (under bank control)

• Electronic contracting under Bank supervision

• Bank control

• ERP/MES/Manufacturing system interface or outsourcing

• AutoCAD outsourcing

Case 1

3- e-Factory aims

Aim to presenters

• To capitalize the un used production facilities

• Creating an industry linkage and wariness

• Export capacity development to new markets

• Dealing direct with international brokers

• Industry standards setting

• International competitiveness

• Partner search/match making between Presenters

• Using International low end Manufacturing application with high level industry culture and design applications without big investment (outsourcing)

• Start using online trading in manufacturing under bank control

Aim to requester

• Getting For importer outside Egypt, the best of Egyptian industry market using the low coast of production facilities and competition

• Importer can manufacture un standard product using the unlimited production facilities

• Good market for brokers and investors

• Using online trading in manufacturing under certified quality control system.

Aim to industry

· Awareness and information that contribute to changing mind-sets

• Analyse industry powerful & weakness indicator points

• Creating awareness about international requirements and benchmarks

Conclusions

Manufacturing companies are increasingly turning to business process outsourcing

• The use of multiple service providers will continue to grow.

• Within manufacturing, the use of service providers will increase faster in the area of discrete short-term projects than in the area of long-term projects.

• Cost-effective measures utilizing advanced technology (e.g., on-demand service for online capacity) will become increasingly popular.

4 Objectives

e-Factory target small to mid-sized manufacturers using and to provide the robust functionality of the Egyptian manufacturers and their production facilities, class business and production systems that until now were feasible only for large enterprises .

e-Factory designed for make-to-order and make-to-stock manufacturers and not limited the typical industry

e-factory members should have manufacturing system or agree to use e-Factory outsourcing , and should have Internet connection .

e-Factory works and activities

1- a company (registered Requester) submits a Request for Quotation. This RFQ includes an outline of the product or commodity they need - such as delivery dates, quantity and even attachments. The Requester then assigns a start and close date to the bid, decides whether they want the auction be an open or sealed bid, and then submits the RFQ on-line. From here, the bidding begins.

If the Requester is a first time e-Factory user and has no experience with preparing RFP nor RFQ, then the Requester goes through RFP registration screen and run RFP/RFQ fill down system for Requesters then the system release the RFQ. One mandatory data is a banking data

2. Bidding companies (registered Presenter) see the RFQ, and fill out the on-line form to respond - this includes their company details, product descriptions and payment information. The Bidder and Requester are invited to contact each other during the process. The bidder can submit their response and revise as many times as they choose - so long as it is before the close date.

If the Presenter is a first time e-Factory user and has no experience with present his capability. Presenter can obtain Manufacturers orientation program for traditional Presenters. And if the Presenter wishes not to include accessing presenter to his production process tracing through the net feature then he can disable Providing MES&ERP solution consultancy and Interfaces for qualified Presenters feature.

3. After the close date - the Requester reviews all bids and decides if any of the bids match their request. If so, they can accept any of the bids.

Once the bid is awarded, the Bank check system open or activate both Requester and Presenter accounts and inform them. And all parties including the bank sign the Electronic contracting. At the same time, a quality control parts get a copy of contract and RFQ AS well to follow quality assurance and to approve money transfer.

Thus , the Presenter and Requester have succeeded in reaching new business over the web while both of them can access and tracing production process and payment process through Payment on production/delivery tracing system for Presenters , Online money transfer and Bank account check, and Production tracing system for Requesters

Additional activities for e-Factory members

• Requester can access to r own unique, personalized manufacturing portal

• Secured by the infrastructure, security and applications to transform previously disconnected business transactions into a single process.

• Both Requester and Presenter can choose what he wants to see

· Requester can access the plant information via a manufacturing specific software interface solution.

• It is easy to extended privileges to publish and disseminate the business information across the organization and selectively to affiliated customers and partners.

Presenter facilities

• Security

• (Competitors cannot see his proposals).

• Real-Time Access

• (24 hours a day, 7 days a week to local, national and International markets)

• New Business Opportunities

• He can respond to requests for quotes across hundreds of markets.

Requesters Facilities

• Security (

• Competitors cannot see his requests for quotes and he decide if the trade is public or private)

• ))

· Costs vs. Values (

· He decides what factors effects his buying decision. )

• Choices (

• A virtually limitless range of products, goods and services that reduces the time and expense of locating and qualifying sellers)

Sample transaction

Spanish broker orders raw materials from Aswan. Locate a reasonable manufacturing facility in Alex. Sell his finished product anywhere

5 Justification

5.A. Target groups with an estimate of the anticipated number of direct and indirect beneficiaries.

A mentioned before that e-Factory target small to mid-sized make-to-order and make-to-stock manufacturers in all type of industry the beneficiaries with include the following categories:

Direct beneficiaries ( Discrete manufacturers )

Because the e-Factory project will be located in 6^th of October City, where will start the pilot project and 1^st phase to include around factories member to Egyptian Society for Work and Workers Development and Support (ESWWDS) and 6^th of October Association for Industrialization

The 2^nd phase will include all Egyptian manufacturers using ERP systems or oriented with ERP and approve to use e-Factory manufacturing and designing outsourcing system

3^rd phase will include the small size manufacturers attended manufacturing orientation training program provided by e-Factory.

Indirect beneficiaries