Manufacturing
Jul 28, 2009 Lean Accounting's Fat Problem
In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods examines how businesses implementing Lean practices are finding that standard cost accounting stands in the way.
Put simply, the column says that "in a lean process, the demand signals pull the materials through the flow processes and the right number of products is created with as little waste as possible. More »
Jun 20, 2009 First Impressions on 'Perfect Plant' Book from Clive Wilby, Senior Consultant, BASF-IT Services
Clive Wilby has been kind enough to give us his impressions of the "Perfect Plant" book: More »
Jun 20, 2009 Adolf Allesch, Global SAP NetWeaver Lead Partner for IBM Global Business Services Reviews 'Perfect Plant' Book
What follows is a review of the Perfect Plant book by Adolf Allesch, Global SAP NetWeaver Lead Partner, IBM Global Business Services:
In my practice I have invested in numerous books and articles searching for a comprehensive piece of work that ties the challenges of manufacturing with useable, actionable enterprise software implementation. In Search of the Perfect Plant sets new ground in understanding a realistic approach to true actionable improvements for plant operations. More »
Aug 27, 2008 Instrumenting the Enterprise
Performance management allows today's corporations to take in all the information coming from disparate systems as well as from the markets and news wires and use it to run the business in highly agile and effective ways. Instead of looking back (driving using the rear view mirror), performance management lets you see where you are now and where you are going. Dan Woods' column on Forbes.com provides a pithy deep dive into performance management.
In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant: A Business and Technical Guide
In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant goes beyond business and industrial methodology books published in the past, conceiving of the entire chain of production from order to delivery as a single, living organism with distinct, but wholly interdependent parts.