#U.S. manufacturing continues to expand with 15 consecutive months of growth, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). As one manufacturer reported, “Business is solid…Awesome!” As the manufacturing sector grows, the clear winners in the race for market share will be those with the most efficient and connected organizations. The simplest way to…
Well, it was almost instant. That was the first message sent by Morse’s telegraph system in 1844. Prior to that, communication could take months and connectivity beyond one’s town was about nonexistent. Today’s connectivity power of the Internet can put manufacturers in touch with suppliers and buyers anywhere in the world at any moment. Our…
Each time you’re confronted with an important decision there is mental tension. This can lead to fatigue and stress. Harvard Business Review recommends the use of routines to reduce decision making. For instance, if you are a morning person, then get the difficult decisions out of the way before lunch. Rules-based approval routing and workflow…
For all those who attended our session at the QAD Midwest Users Group (MWUG) conference, we’d like to extend a big THANK YOU for joining us. We were delighted by the packed room and the buzz generated by the session we performed with Senthil Kumar Ragupathi of Avery Dennison. As promised please find a link…
This past summer, the University of Louisville learned the hard way what can happen with financial process controls are lax or MIA: six employees were accused with taking school money or grant funds when an audit uncovered evidence of embezzlement. In our experience, companies that have the right business process optimization can improve their financial controls,…
Manufacturers are on the cusp of a digital tsunami with digitalization poised to transform the way they’ve been doing their supply chain for the past two decades, according to MIT News. Companies that buck the digitization trend are not leveraging 21ST Century technology’s value to improve their business processes, including the Cloud, mobile devices, social media,…
“The parchment is hairy,” griped a medieval monk who spent months copying biblical text. We know of his grievance because he wrote it in the margin of his painstakingly copied manuscript. I imagine the evolution from 20th Century analog to 21st Century digital is as much of a world transformation as what happened after Johannes…
Look within any organization large or small and you will find that many of their business processes are stuck in Analog! That does not mean that they are not automated. Rather, it means that they are not leveraging the value that today’s technology affords to improve business processes in a number of ways which have…
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