 | Ten Components of Effective ERP Governance: A Gartner Report
Too often, organizations that implemented ERP fail to recognize the need for enterprise level governance until post implementation issues have highlighted the gap between IT oriented governance and the governance needed for ERP. |
| Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management. |
| The Visible Supply Chain : Ensuring End-to-End Optimization
Today’s supply chain is the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. Supply chain visibility is a tall order, but some of today’s IT systems can meet it. This paper will describe the characteristics of a visible supply chain, explain why having one is important and discuss the technology resources that can deliver it to you. |
| Tuning ERP and the Supply Chain for Profitable Growth
The supply chain is, of course, the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. But today, it is a multifaceted, multi-company, multinational structure that makes it the most complex management challenge found in any enterprise. |
| The 2008 ERP in Manufacturing Benchmark Report Summary
Pressures to reduce costs outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2008. While ERP is generally viewed as a necessary infrastructure, it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and automating business processes – while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise. |
| Designed to Manage Lean Principles
Lean manufacturing has been an evolving practice in manufacturing for nearly 20 years. As a result, consumers have enjoyed lower prices, higher quality and more involvement in the overall supply process.
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