| Maxager |
Enterprise profit optimization software including strategic pricing, customer mix and product mix profitability, sales planning, asset optimization, and production planning solutions.
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| Industries |
Maxager's patented enterprise profit optimization (EPO) solutions help leading chemicals, metals, plastics, electronics, packaging, semiconductor, and other asset-intensive manufacturers increase cash and profit worth 3% to 5% of revenue.
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| Chemicals |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for chemical companies that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Electronics |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for electronics companies that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Metals |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for metals companies that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Plastics |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for plastics companies that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Semiconductors |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for semiconductor companies that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Other |
Enterprise profit optimization solution featuring strategic pricing, product mix and customer mix optimization, asset optimization, sales planning and profitability analysis software for packaging, paper, rubber, textiles, and other asset-intensive manufacturers that is available on demand through a subscription web service.
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| Solutions |
Maxager is the first software solution to translate ROA — the key driver of shareholder value — into operational terms. A unique profit-per-minute approach, accessible in an easy to use Web-based software service, moves manufacturers beyond a margin-only view to enable entire operational teams — finance, sales & marketing, and production — to clearly see which products, customers and facilities truly drive Return on Assets (ROA). Progressive manufacturers are turning to Maxager to uncover profits and cash worth 3% to 5% of revenues.
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| Finance |
Finance organizations in highly-complex manufacturers face the same fundamental problem: Return on Assets — the metric that shareholders really care about — cannot be controlled at the operational level. With the inability to control ROA on a granular level, consistent delivery of profits is simply impossible. But what if there was a way to translate ROA to operational terms?
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| Sales & Marketing |
Even with advanced ERP systems and detailed costing and margin information, accurately answering the questions of "What should we make?" and "Who should we sell to?" and "How much should we charge?" is still a monumental task. Without critical information on which products, customers and markets produce the most cash the fastest, consistent and profitable decision-making is impossible. Are your sales people focusing on your most profitable customers and products?
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| Production |
Production organizations in highly-complex manufacturers face the same fundamental problem: they measure success with units-per-minute and cost, but the rest of the company is living in a margin-only world. With conflicting priorities across the operational team, collaborative decisions that contribute to true profitability are impossible. But what if there was a common metric that finance, sales, marketing, and production could use to eliminate conflicting priorities?
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| Investment Prioritization |
Using Maxager 7 to analyze ROA at a granular level allows informed investment decisions based on the true profitability of every product, order, customer, plant, and production line. Understanding ROA at this level and applying it to your investment decisions can help you invest in the production facilities and resources which will have the most significant impact on ROA.
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| Performance Rankings |
Control over the bottom line requires an ongoing means for measuring performance and making changes to improve profitability. Margin is important, but production rates also need to be taken into account for generating accurate profitability rankings of products, customers, markets, geographies, sales teams and facilities.
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| Portfolio Management |
Major manufacturers have an extensive portfolio of assets, products, and customers that need to be monitored and managed -- but monitoring them using only margin and revenue does not give the full picture of profitability. By analyzing these assorted portfolios at a granular ROA level, Maxager 7 can offer invaluable guidance regarding potential changes in portfolio mix.
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| Profit Monitoring |
Once you have used Maxager 7 to build the sales plans or production schedules to optimize Return on Assets (ROA), the next step is to see how your actual performance matches up to the plan. Maxager's variance analysis allows you to compare your actual performance to projections so you can make mid-course corrections and ensure attainment of profitability goals.
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| Strategic Planning |
Are revenue and margin the only metrics driving your strategy? Maxager 7 delivers historical analysis based on margin and production velocity data showing profitability at a detailed level. Assess the impact of potential changes to product-asset-customer mixes, production strategies, pricing and more.
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| Product Mix Optimization |
To optimize product mix, companies need to measure and control how fast each product delivers profit to the business and then prioritize the products that generate cash the fastest. Lower margin products that can be manufactured quickly may in fact be more profitable than those which have higher margins but are slower to produce.
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| Product Rationalization |
While some products may be vital to key customers, they could also be having a negative impact on your bottom line and you would be better off without them in your portfolio. Maxager offers more accurate profitability analysis -- ranking products by key performance metrics including profit-per-minute, Return on Assets (ROA), total cash, and profit in addition to revenue and margin.
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| Customer Rankings |
Maxager offers manufacturers a solution to rank customers by key performance metrics including profit-per-minute and ROA as well as by total cash, profit, revenue, or margin.
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| Market Segmentation |
Maxager 7's profit-per-minute approach applies this critical analytical ability and allows modeling of strategic changes to sales and marketing strategy by vertical market, geography and sales team to determine impact on Return on Assets (ROA).
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| Strategic Pricing |
To price more effectively in a rapidly changing world, your company must be able to first understand what to sell, who to sell it to, and where to make it. Then it is time to decide what to charge for it.
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| Sales and Profit Planning |
To accurately predict the cash and profit impact of pricing, volume, or mix changes manufacturers need to know how fast each product or customer generates cash. By uncovering profit gain opportunities that are obscured by the traditional "margin only" analysis, Maxager 7 combines margin and production velocity information to generate more complete and realistic forward-looking models based on profit-per-minute at the product, customer, order or market level.
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| New Product Modeling |
By applying Maxager's unique profit-per-minute approach that combines margin and production velocity information, manufacturers can model new product introductions and ensure that new products are strategically conceived with a focus on Return on Assets (ROA) and profitability.
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| Facility Profitability |
Maxager 7's profit-per-minute approach combines margin and production rate data to yield a detailed understanding of the profit impact of individual plants and production lines, leading to better control over product mix and scheduling.
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| Capacity Loading |
Maxager allows you to effectively manage your business — based on Return on Assets (ROA) and profit-per-minute — by making better decisions on how to most profitably load your facilities when capacity is at a premium.
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| Alternate Routings |
Decisions on where to produce certain products are typically based upon costs and the scheduling constraints of your manufacturing facilities. But what about profitability? Using Maxager 7 to view profit-per-minute and Return on Assets (ROA) for individual products at the production line or plant level allows you to discover alternative production routings that increase profits.
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| Lot Size Profitability |
Exactly how much more profitable is this product if I am producing in batches of 1000 units/tons/kg vs. 500 units/tons/kg? How much does profitability vary with the length of the production run? Maxager 7 can provide a view into true profitability of products at the production lot level.
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| Dollarizing Downtime |
Deciding where to focus and invest in improvement efforts is more effective when Maxager is used to show how much cash per minute each downtime reason is really costing you.
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| Dollarizing Yield Losses |
Waste on a production line falls into two areas — materials and time. There are many analytical tools available to help minimize wasted materials, but wasted time is not as readily considered. Traditionally, manufacturers have not been able to determine scrap time — that which was used to make products that end up getting scrapped — and the resulting cost to the organization.
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| Capacity Planning |
If capacity planning is not based on detailed analysis of profitability and ROA by product, product type, production line and facility, overall company profitability will never be maximized. Maxager's profit-per-minute approach enables companies to accurately predict the cash and profit impact of changes to capacity.
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| Executive Overview |
How Maxager can help manufacturers to optimize product mix and customer mix, sales and profit planning, asset optimization, and strategic pricing.
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| Getting Started with Maxager |
In less than four weeks, your company can be using Maxager's enterprise profit optimization software for strategic pricing, sales planning, customer mix and product mix improvement, and asset optimization.
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| Controlling Velocity |
Velocity: the key to controlling profitability; deploy software that monitors profit flows and gives you true control over your bottom line.
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| Customer Case Study |
The profit per minute information revealed by the Maxager system enabled U.S. Steel to increase cash by millions of dollars.
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| Exploiting Product Mix |
"Our strategy is to shift our product towards products with a higher Profit Per Minute so we can make significant improvements in cash flow and overall profitability."
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| Pricing for Manufacturers White Paper |
"... pricing is...difficult to manage for asset-intensive manufacturers - those that have spent millions, if not billions, of dollars on plant, property and equipment."
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| Customer Profitability Focus |
Your margin data may be blinding your company from $ millions in cash. Generate more cash by exposing how fast each product or customer generates profit.
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| Pricing Focus |
Stop leaving $ Millions on the table. Capturing rising materials costs requires an easy-to-use and strategic pricing solution that allows sales teams to maximize cash, not just revenue.
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| Product Mix Focus |
Stop leaving $ Millions on the table by prioritizing products based on margin. Generate more cash by exposing how fast each product or customer generates profit.
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| Product Profitability Focus |
Your margin data may be blinding your company from $ millions in cash. Generate more cash by exposing how fast each product or customer generates profit.
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| Profit Optimization Focus |
The only Enterprise Profit Optimization solution focusing on manufacturers and profit-per-minute. Improved pricing, sales planning, higher quality product and customer mix, and improved customer profitability.
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| Sales Planning Focus |
Start maximizing cash by dynamically optimizing price, volume, and product mix. Our Enterprise Profit Optimization solution is offered as a web service and can be up and running in less than 30 days.
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| FAQ |
Questions and answers regarding enterprise profit optimization software: product profitability, pricing, mix management, and capacity planning solutions.
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| About Maxager |
Uncovering profit gain opportunities that are obscured by traditional "margin only" analysis, Maxager uses both margin and production velocity information to analyze history and generate realistic forward modeling that provides management teams an entirely new level of control over Return on Assets (ROA) — the key driver of shareholder value. Maxager's unique technology calculates precisely how fast each product, customer, or market generates cash and profit from the assets, allowing managers to truly optimize product mix & customer mix profitability, sales & profit planning, strategic pricing, and production planning.
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| News |
Press releases, industry quotes, trade articles and analyst briefs focusing on Maxager and enterprise profit optimization.
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| Events |
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| Press & Analysts |
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| Management |
A list containing the names, titles and bios of Maxager's Senior Management Team.
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| Board of Directors |
A list containing the names, titles and bios of Maxager's Board of Directors.
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| Careers |
Maxager seeks talented and customer-focused individuals who can contribute significantly to our growth.
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| Locations |
Maxager Technology, Inc. (Headquarters): 2173 East Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901
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