Posts Tagged ‘business process improvement’

Introduction

Companies today are faced with two major hurdles. Doing business in a fiercely competitive global environment and challenging economic times. To survive and prosper organizations must employ new technologies and techniques at a velocity that may challenge the very fiber of their company. They will be required to establish seamless integration from their customers, internally into manufacturing, and out to their suppliers. In other words, the integration must wholly link all of the finite elements comprising the total supply chain.

The ability to adapt to change in the way they plan, manage and operate will set apart the winners apart from the losers. This will require a sharp focus on achieving excellence in all areas of the business. Company leaders will need to develop a strong bond across the value chain to achieve this high standard of excellence and effectiveness.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the strategic tool that equips the enterprise with the necessary capabilities to integrate and synchronize the isolated islands within their companies into efficient and streamlined business processes and workflows. Further, world-class organizations take it one step further by linking their ERP deployment to the processes and tenets of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Supply Chain Management.

Making the decision to implement an ERP system

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