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International fashion icon Burberry has chosen the XeBusiness Real Time Production Control System (Xe-RTS) for implementation at its Castleford manufacturing site in West Yorkshire.

The XeBusiness Production Control System is a shop floor event driven system that manages productivity, closely tracks and optimises work-in-progress, monitors time and attendance and optimises capacity and production scheduling in real time; i.e. as events on the shop floor are actually occurring. The system is totally flexible allowing changes to production priorities to be made 'on the fly'.

"We are proud to be able to partner Burberry on this major IT project," said David Cullis, chief executive of XeBusiness, "We are confident that the system will generate the business benefits that will provide a very short ROI. Typically, our system provides a pay-back on initial investment of a few months making it a must-have business management tool for most sizes of manufacturing operation."

About XeBusiness

XeBusiness supplies computer based supply chain solutions for quick response and cost reduction - simply and economically. The company is a leading business to business provider of supply chain solutions to the textile and apparel sector that allow client companies to automate their in-house functional processes and to integrate these with systems in use at their customers, suppliers and business partners to improve service levels and reduce operating cost.

About Xe-RTS (Real Time Manufacturing Control System)

Xe-RTS is a world class Manufacturing Control, Time and Attendance and Work in Progress (WIP) management system that monitors, records and feeds back information to operatives and managers instantaneously (in real time) about shop floor manufacturing processes as they occur, enabling productivity to be substantially increased (5% - 25%), work in progress to be optimised, production orders to be tracked and operating costs to be reduced.