The Implementers’ Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning doc

... Team-Fly ® there. They’ll take care of getting and keeping the data accurate. They won’t allow the “computer tail” to wag the “company dog,” as has been the case far too often. People are the key. C LASS ABCD At ... He’d never even make the cut. The rea- son: To be competitive at the highest levels of the game, you need a full set of clubs in the bag. Enterprise...

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... strengthen the change process begun in the outsider-led classes. • To equip these operating managers with the tools to reach the critical mass. • To develop detailed definitions of how the company’s ... starts to build, the meetings can start to be run by others in the group. This gets the managers accustomed to running these kinds of meetings before they start le...

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... the rest of the items are cut over to ERP. The pilot must be successful to go to cutover, and visible success supports behavior change. Therefore, make sure the other planning folks can see the ... Both of the above. In any of these cases, the very worst thing would be to proceed into the cutover phase to put all the remaining items onto the new sys- tem. Firs...

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... stock, and increases the book inven- tory as material is received into stock. The key concept here is that the book record is updated together with the movement of material out of or into stock. ... time to the cus- tomer. Where options or other subassemblies are stocked prior to cus- tomer orders arriving, the term assemble -to- order is frequently used. M AKE - TO -S TOC...

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... and they certainly know the set of tools being used to manage the day -to- day business. In some cases, they become deeply involved with other improve- ment initiatives in their company. In other ... tasks from any of the checklists. To do so would weaken their ability to help monitor compliance with the Proven Path. Getting Ready 107 Q & A WITH THE A UTHORS T OM : P...

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... difficulties with the software supplier, etc.). The Torchbearer The term torchbearer refers very specifically to that executive with assigned top-level responsibility for ERP. The role of the torch- bearer 2 is ... is the people. It’s people who’ll make it work. Education is fundamental to making it happen. It’s teaching the people how to use the tools, and getting the...

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... means to start to run the new system while continuing to run the old one. The output from the new system is compared to the old. When the new system is consistently giving the correct answers, the ... if they’re skewed to the high or low side, the efficiency factor can be used to translate the standard hours to clock hours. Another good rule of thumb: If th...

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... people use the latter term when referring to themselves shipping to their cus- tomers, while they’ll use VMI for the process of their suppliers ship- ping to them. With either term, the process ... solution to the situation presented to it. Then it displays this solution and the relevant factors (stockouts, cost, inventory, changeovers, output, etc.) to the person co...

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... about inventory: “Inventory is like having a fever. The higher the temperature, the worse the dis- ease; the larger the inventory, the worse are the processes.” Inventory is one of the least flexible ... level is much the same. A company needs to understand that: • Today’s success is no guarantee of tomorrow’s. • People are the key. • The name of the game is to...

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... 329 D EMAND M ANAGEMENT Forecasting/Sales Planning Forecasting/sales planning is the process of predicting what items the sales department expects to sell and the specific tasks they are go- ing to take to hit the forecast. The sales ... opera- tion replaces the need to have expensive inventory scattered around the country. In either case, the company has the oppo...

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