subject: Responding to business pressures from beyond the organisation [print this page] Responding to business pressures from beyond the organisation
Looking at each approach individually we can identify in more details what your organisation can do in order to better prepare and respond to external pressures from the environment and competitors.
Continuous measurement and improvement
It is vital to undertake a situation analysis to understand where you are now, where you want to be and how to get there with the resources you have. To enable you to do this effectively and efficiently you will need to know what to measure and have specific and reliable metrics to hand.
Product innovation and quality
Managing products to ensure that you are optimising the return on investment (ROI) throughout the product lifecycle is paramount. You will need the right tools to hand to undertake product management tasks such as:
Managing the product development
Collaborating with all involved in the product
Establishing workflows
Managing quality
Delivery speed and agility
It is absolutely essential that you are in control of the supply chain downstream. Control of the manufacturing process is fundamental in enabling you to know where your stock is and when it is required; information is king. Establishing more accurate and timely data-flows can bring significant rewards such as:
Improved lead times
Improved delivery
Better inventory management
Reduced labour requirements
Elimination of waste
Being lean and green
Managing the enterprise assets more efficiently can bring significant cost-reductions but not only cost-reductions, though. The lifetime of the asset can be extended by proper asset management and reducing maintenance and repair costs. Proactive things to you can do with the right tools to become lean and green are to:
Track energy consumption by asset
Monitor assets and ensure compliance
Monitor equipment for performance
Aim to reduce consumption and emissions
Proactive alert and exception management
Once you have established what you need to do, be aware of what's happening, be innovative and quality aware, agile and leaner and you will need to use technology to assist you in being proactive and responsive. What we are talking about here is managing exceptions in real-time with advanced software solutions to deliver real benefits to your organization and ultimately value-added products to your customers by being efficient and effective by design.
This strategic approach to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) allows the organisation to remove the complexity of the day-to-day management tasks by using industry leading and business specific performance tools. Typically, by using dashboards, reporting and alerts for performance monitoring; better and faster decision making can be achieved.
That is why Infor Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software will help you to reduce your operational costs, improve efficiency and adopt lean and green manufacturing processes in your organisation.
