PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS
February 1st, 2003 BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKAINDIA'S Footwear Design and Development Institute has launched an INDRupee 40,000 computer software package designed to improve productivity levels for the country's footwear industry. Called PRISM (Productivity and Resources Information System Manager), the system is supposed to cut the time spent on administrative tasks in a leather-manufacturing unit to about 30 minutes from the existing three days of manual paperwork. It automates the management of manufacturing and materials, the processing of bills of materials, job cards and ...
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