Sherwood Turns Up The Heat With VISUAL ERP
With Integrated Financials, KPI Dashboards and streamlined Material Planning and Operations, Sherwood will really be turning up the heat with VISUAL ERP. Synergy Resources today announced that Sherwood...
View ArticleWhy Are A Handful of Leaders Better At Performance Improvements?
Assuming you have effectively answered the 4 questions that every business must continuously ask themselves during and after setting the company’s strategic plan and objectives: “Why” is it important...
View ArticleWhy Everything You Know About ERP is Wrong
ERP has been the backbone of manufacturing IT for so long that it has taken on its own myths. The trouble is that these myths are now ‘accepted wisdom’, despite being anything but acceptable or wise....
View ArticleWhy Is Lean More Popular Than Six Sigma And The Theory of Constraints?
I think there is much more in common between Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC) than we’d like to admit. As big and broad as Lean is, the real benefit of implementing it the right way attacks the...
View ArticleAre you growing for growth’s sake?
Growing, of course, is much better than the alternative, but when we are in growth mode, we are often so satisfied (perhaps even thrilled) of that specific direction, that we fail to keep an eye on the...
View ArticleGiving Up the Crystal Ball – Enough is Enough
If driving actual production from a forecast is insane, what should we do instead? Not using some plan for production would produce even worse results. How about this? Let’s stop being afraid of not...
View ArticleSynergy Driving Performance Improvement
Synergy uses LEAN/TOC/SixSigma principles in conjunction with implementing ERP to drive performance improvement throughout the company. Below are two articles from a new Synergy customer’s employee...
View ArticleKaizen: A Marvel Solution for the Manufacturing Industry
In Japanese, “Kaizen” means “Continuous Improvement”. In simple terms, it means a continuous effort to enhance the quality of products or services offered by a business. It is all about making positive...
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