tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7624- 2007-12-03T11:53:03Z Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7624.2415 brian houston "This" is the future my friend. However, to react quickly you need timely and accurate information and by the way it really helps to have decision support tools when you are dealing with thousands of pieces or information. The '90's were all about fully integrated and ERP/MRPII tools. It was a great leap forward in managing the business in total, not isolated pockets or efficiency/inefficiency. I think this decade will be about taking all those great or not so great ERP systems and use them to make globally optimized decisions. For example, a customer places an order. Traditional ERP systems would have a single source for that customer and you would ship from there. This is locally optimum, but is it globally optimum? By not looking at all the pending orders on the books, you may rob the inventory for another order that is much more expensive to source from elsewhere. This is one of 1000's of decisions that business can optimize on from forecasting, production, inventory management, transportation, etc.

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In our experience an assumption that "culture will be a barrier" turned out to be partially wrong.We found that there are cultural sweetspots that have already bought into the change idea.The challenge is to get the success stories from here and disseminate it across the organization.Better,if it happens through word-of-mouth and horizontally rather than top-down.

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