Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond

Integrating Your Entire Organization

Gary A Langenwalter

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781420049060
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Operations
• Index: Business

To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly.
Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication and coordination throughout a company as well as between the company, its suppliers, and its customers.
The author explains Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in non-technical terms, describing how an ERP system can fully integrate all functions in your manufacturing organization. He demonstrates the system's capability to increase efficiency and profitability - and to delight the customer - as well as its current deficiencies.
In addition to his thorough coverage of ERP, the author introduces Total Enterprise Integration (TEI), the process of integrating all the information required to fully support a manufacturing company. TEI represents a logical extension of complete information integration throughout a manufacturing enterprise and into the supply chain. This new concept shows you how the intelligent use of work flow allows responsibility to go to the most appropriate front-line decision makers while maintaining proper budgetary and operational controls.
The power of TEI is in the integration of communication across the entire manufacturing company, and out through the supply chain to customers and suppliers. Enterprise Resource Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization focuses on what a fully integrated system can do for you.Features

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Customer Integration
• Other Topics
• Acknowledgments
• The Author
• About APICS
• Testimonials
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Executive Direction and Support
• Strategic Planning
• Voice of the Customer (VOC)
• Market Research
• Executive Decision Support
• Measurement Systems
• Time
• Quality
• 3 Customer Integration
• Electronic Commerce/Internet Commerce
• Distribution Resources Planning (DRP)
• Order Entry
• Handling large volumes of orders
• Product substitution rules
• Demand Management
• Step 1 — Determine Demand Value
• Step 3 — Rank by Relative Value
• Transportation
• Field Service
• References
• 4 Engineering Integration
• Concurrent Engineering
• Integrating with Suppliers
• Project Management
• 5 Manufacturing Integration
• Master Production Schedule (MPS)
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling
• Synchronizing Plans
• Purchasing Integration, Internal
• 6 Support Services Integration
• Standard Costing
• Advanced Costing
• References
• 7 Technical Considerations (in Nontechnical Language)
• Advanced E-Commerce
• Security
• References
• 8 Other Topics
• Multi-Plant
• References
• 9 System Selection
• How NOT to Select a System
• Step 1: Create the Vision
• Step 6: Review Proposals
• Step 7: Select Three Finalists
• 10 Successful Implementation
• Twelve Steps to Successful Implementation
• Step 3: Create the Initial Detailed Project Plan
• People are Comfortable, and Don’t See the Need for a New System
• 11 The People Side of TEI
• Failure
• Organization
• Citizenship and Herding Cats
• Being in Integrity
• References
• Appendix A: Features and Functions for Repetitive Manufacturing
• Appendix B: Features and Functions for Process Manufacturing
• Planning and Scheduling
• References
• Appendix C: Professional Associations