... 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 ... can see the success.
C
UTOVER
Once the live pilot is working well and the users are comfortable with
it, it s time to cut over the rest of the items onto the...
... not
only keep ERP alive but to capitalize on the full potential that now
exists in the company.
The capabilities that you can create with ERP, particularly when
coupled with Enterprise Software, ... Manufacturing/Just-in-Time proces-
ses initiated and successfully completed
within the company and with suppliers.
______ ______
Operating ERP 3 17
Q & A
WITH THE
A...
... company must
learn how to deal with demand and supply issues in a new way. The
speed of information flow with enterprise software combined with
ERP s new approach to all of the planning and execution ... various tools within Enterprise Re-
source Planning need to be the same folks who will operate those
tools after they’re implemented.
3. It s not priority number on...
... com-
puter deal to order parts and help close the books faster, and that’s
what they wound up with. Others in this category tried to do it with-
out educating their people and/or without getting their ... priority drops, so do the odds for suc-
cess. The best approach is to establish ERP as a very high priority;
implement it quickly and successfully. And then capitalize o...
... that’s the best place to do it. But why
on earth would we say to cut out computer costs with the strong ES
linkage with ERP?
The answer goes back to Chapter 1—installing ES without the
proper ERP ... put together the cost/benefit analysis and then
attempt to sell the project to their bosses. If top management has been
to first-cut education, there should be no ne...
... 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 can
work with the tools ... people in the company prior to going live with ERP,
with the balance being educated shortly thereafter. That’s all the
people, from the folks in mahogany...
... are:
• To accelerate and 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 ... (criterion 4). These people need to know
about ERP and how it ll affect them and the way they do their jobs.
However, in most companies, they simply don’t need to...
... on the shelf inside the
stockroom, within the counting tolerance. Don’t go to the pilot and
cutover steps without it.
There are a few more things to consider about counting toler-
ances. The ... and institutionalized.
Accounting deals with facts, with what has happened. It s primarily
historical. When things happen, we record them. On the other
hand, resource planni...
... 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 ... demonstrated to sen-
ior management the enormous power of what was then called Man-
ufacturing Resource Planning. Once they saw it with their own eyes,
they were convinced....
... 57
enhancement of, 65–68
vs. ERP, 3–4
without ERP, 51
installation of, 68 70
without ERP, 240
and the Internet, 325–326
on-going support for, 70 71
overview of, 63 71
and Quick-Slice ERP, 272 , ... planned
prior to the order arriving in order to reduce the delivery time to the cus-
tomer. Where options or other subassemblies are stocked prior to cus-
tomer orders arri...