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Lack of connection and collaboration between people, processes, and information: Collaboration among the company’s employee and its vendors, customers, and business partners is rudimentary and difficult
Posted by AJ Amjad Khanmohamed — December 24, 2017 in Lack of connection and collaboration between people In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager), Peter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager) The Agenda title: Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following: What are your customers telling you about their ability to find company information, such as ship dates or order confirmations, online? Would they like to have better access to business data from you? Are you happy with the quality of the relationships with suppliers and business partners? Would you like to increase the strategic value of these relationships? How do the business…
Read More »Lack of connection and collaboration between people, processes, and information: Collaboration among the company’s employee and its vendors, customers, and business partners is rudimentary and difficult
Posted by AJ Amjad Khanmohamed — December 24, 2017 in Lack of connection and collaboration between people In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager), Peter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager) The Agenda title: Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following: How well do you collaborate with your outsource vendors? Can you easily create purchase orders for them and track shipments to or from such vendors? How fruitful are those relationships? How do you broadcast quality assurance information to suppliers? Do you make it available to customers at all? How do you communicate it to regulatory agencies? Has that process been successful and…
Read More »Lack of connection and collaboration between people, processes, and information: Forecasting, material requirements planning, capacity requirements planning, and item engineering lack access to dependable, comprehensive information and effective management tools
Posted by AJ Amjad Khanmohamed — December 23, 2017 in Lack of connection and collaboration between people In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager), Peter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager) The Agenda title: Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following: How do you analyze actual and projected capacity demands, and avoid both under- and over-utilization? How successful have those efforts been? Can you peg to the source of demands in material requirements planning? How do you make engineering and design information available to the manufacturing process? How well is that working? How do you introduce new products into manufacturing? Do you…
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