Required Actions: The Steps to Success. Whether a company is a “laggard” as defined in the Aberdeen Group’s report entitled ERP in Manufacturing 2010: Measuring Business Benefit and the Time to Value, or an “industry average” firm looking to move up to Best in Class, certain actions need to be performed in order to spur [...]
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Manufacturing Takes the Lead (Part 5 of 5 in a series)
Posted in SERIES: ERP in Manufacturing (5 posts), tagged Aberdeen, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, ERP in Manufacturing, ERP in Manufacturing 2010, Improving operations with ERP and MRP, What pressures encourage ERP adoption? on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Manufacturing Takes the Lead (Part 4 of 5 in a series)
Posted in SERIES: ERP in Manufacturing (5 posts), tagged Aberdeen, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, ERP in Manufacturing, ERP in Manufacturing 2010, Improving operations with ERP and MRP, What pressures encourage ERP adoption? on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The entire Aberdeen Group manufacturer’s survey we’ve been reviewing in this and our prior three posts covers a lot of ground. You can read the full report here at your leisure. We simply want to recap some of what we found to be the key lessons that any manufacturer would do well to note. One [...]
Manufacturing Takes the Lead (Part 3 of 5 in a series)
Posted in SERIES: ERP in Manufacturing (5 posts), tagged Aberdeen, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, ERP in Manufacturing, ERP in Manufacturing 2010, Improving operations with ERP and MRP, What pressures encourage ERP adoption? on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A key finding in Aberdeen’s ERP Manufacturer’s Survey was how in years past manufacturers failed to take full advantage of the capabilities of their systems. (As ERP implementers, we see this all the time: a flurry of activity to get basic processes implemented, coupled with some effort to cut cost by minimizing training, and all [...]
Manufacturing Takes the Lead (Part 2 of 5 in a series)
Posted in SERIES: ERP in Manufacturing (5 posts), tagged Aberdeen, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, ERP in Manufacturing, ERP in Manufacturing 2010, Improving operations with ERP and MRP, What pressures encourage ERP adoption? on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The title of this series of posts comes from idea noted in our first post on the topic that manufacturers lead all other industries in the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning systems – and benchmarking their results, we might add – by a factor of two to one. Hence, manufacturing leads when it comes to [...]
Manufacturing Takes the Lead (Part 1 of 5 in a series)
Posted in SERIES: ERP in Manufacturing (5 posts), tagged Aberdeen, ERP, ERP in Manufacturing, ERP in Manufacturing 2010, What pressures encourage ERP adoption? on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The roots of ERP, and its successor MRP, are firmly rooted in manufacturing. So when the Aberdeen Group delivers its annual research report it often provides great guidance on how real-world manufacturers use tools such as ERP and MRP to improve operations and become Best of Class enterprises. The most recent report details Aberdeen’s efforts to [...]
