{"id":1502,"date":"2017-12-24T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:24:47","slug":"managers-lack-reliable-planning-tools-and-comprehensive-data-to-increase-the-profitability-of-products-and-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/managers-lack-reliable-planning-tools-and-comprehensive-data-to-increase-the-profitability-of-products-and-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineffective cost control and high overhead of manufacturing operations: Managers lack reliable planning tools and comprehensive data to increase the profitability of products and processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager),<br \/>\nPeter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Agenda title:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ineffective-cost-control-high-overhead-manufacturing-operations-5.png\" alt=\"Ineffective cost control and high overhead of manufacturing operations\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you manage external resources? How cost-effective is that outsourcing process?<\/li>\n<li>Do you anticipate that outsourcing might play a larger role in the future?<\/li>\n<li>Are your vendors and suppliers working cost-effectively for you?<\/li>\n<li>How do you manage those relationships for best economy?<\/li>\n<li>Can you perform what-if costing scenarios to help you in your decision-making?<\/li>\n<li>What planning tools do you use today? How satisfied are you with what they allow you to do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}