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... and they certainly know the set oftools 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 ... meanschanging the way the business will be run. This requires knowinghow the business is being run today.3. It will take a long time for the outsider to learn the products, the processes, and the people—and ... due tothe need to connect the ERP wiring to ES. However, this cost should be relatively small com-pared tothe rest of the project.Here’s a familiar question: Does size matter? In terms of the...
... for thesuccess of the changeprocess, hence, thesuccess of ERP at the operational level of the business.ã They must know, as a group, how the business is being run today.ã They must have the ... 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 them to believe they canwork with the tools ... difficulties with the softwaresupplier, etc.). The Torchbearer The term torchbearer refers very specifically to that executive withassigned top-level responsibility for ERP. The role of the torch-bearer2is...
... so forth.Then they go back to their jobs, think about what they learned, andmatch it up to what they’re currently doing. As they’re doing theirjobs during the rest of the week, they can shoot ... they can do their ownbulletproofing, internally, as they mentally formulate the solution to the problem that just occurred to them. In other cases, not so. Theythink of the problem but not the ... because forERP to succeed, they will need to change the way they do their jobsin some important ways. They will need to manage the business dif-ferently than they have in the past. Attending...
... The shorter the lead time to enter the customer orders, to make the product, to buy the material the less vulnerable a company is to forecast error.Consequently, the company is better able to ... if they’re skewed tothe high or low side, the efficiencyfactor can be used to translate the standard hours to clock hours.Another good rule of thumb: If the standards today are goodenough to ... means to start to run the newsystem while continuing to run the old one. The output from the newsystem is compared tothe old. When the new system is consistentlygiving the correct answers, the...
... 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 planningfolks 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. First, aggressively go after the problem: ... help them because they stoppedrunning it some weeks ago, and the data isn’t current. ERP isn’t help-ing them; it’s overwhelming them.By the time they realize the seriousness of the problem, they...
... 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 tothe situation presented to it. Then it displaysthis solution and the relevant factors (stockouts, cost, inventory,changeovers, output, etc.) tothe person controlling the software.When ... central stocking point tothe DCs.ã The amount of safety stock or safety time needed to protectagainst stock outs at the DCs.Going on the Air—Supply Chain Integration (Phase II) 259 “We have to...
... about inventory: “Inventoryis like having a fever. The higher the temperature, the worse the dis-ease; the larger the inventory, the worse are the processes.” Inventoryis one of the least flexible ... level is much the same. A company needs to understand that:ã Todays success is no guarantee of tomorrows.ã People are the key.ã The name of the game is to win, to be better than the competi-Operating ... view of the Internet as the short cut to make sense of theirsupply chain. There is no question that the Internet offers real po-tential to change the way that the supply chain works. The mistake...