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Is ERP always the best solution?
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Manufacturing Systems Europe
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June 22, 2000
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2000 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Imagine a manufacturer with revenues around Euro 1 billion. After years of cost cutting, its departments are fairly efficient: production achieves good utilization; transport costs are low; sales hits revenue targets; and a mix of in-house AS/400 and Microsoft-based systems capture all transactional data.
However, management lacks useful information. Each report request requires coding, and the request backlog is months long, since the information exists, but is difficult to access. Subsequently, sales has little idea of stock-keeping unit profitability, and production tends to make what it can cheaply manufacture, rather than what sales can sell. No one knows if the ...
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