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Headquarters: 2099 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20006

Phone: (202) 828-0850

Business: The sensors and controls division of Danaher Corp. makes devices for controlling industrial processes, such as timers, counters and temperature sensors.

Chief Information Officer: Joe Beery

Project Manager: Tom Mathis, vice president of supply chain management for the controls division.

Financials in 2004: $6.8 billion in sales for parent company Danaher Corp., with net earnings of $746 million. Danaher Sensors and Controls had sales of about $400 million.

Challenge: Allow manufacturing materials buyers to spend more time negotiating with suppliers, instead of chasing down parts.

BASELINE GOALS:

• Cut "unproductive" time spent on expedited orders for out-of-stock parts by at least 57%, from 105 to 45 hours in at least one plant.
• Eliminate the need to replace or update inventory tracking cards, saving about 30 minutes a day per manufacturing plant.
• Increase turnover of inventory to 30 times per year in 2005, up from 20 in 2004, in at least one manufacturing plant.

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