The Need for Business Agility Business agility is a source of competitive advantage – allowing organizations to adapt to new business imperatives, technology changes and various other industry forces. The ability to adapt quickly is the name of the game in today’s business climate Build a business that is adaptable, and it will become better positioned to swiftly make Read more
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications are often referred as a ‘single system of record’ for product data across the product creation lifecycle. As maturity increases, product and process information flows from PLM to downstream systems, namely Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). As the product matures throughout its lifecycle, the need for closed-loop integration increases. PLM-ERP-MES Read more
The number one challenge of manufacturing is getting ‘the right product, at the right time, at the right price‘. Competitive advantage used to come from automation and more recently digitalization, but this has now become the norm with the advent of new technologies and modern apps. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Read more
Manufacturing organizations aim to create more and better innovative products and bring them faster to market. This is enabled by enterprise product development and manufacturing tools and technologies to automate core business administration and execution functions so that they operate in an integrated manner. As such, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) Read more
What do global manufacturers have to do to benefit from shifting to the localization model of globalization?