Manufacturing

The manufacturing sector has been at the forefront of leading management approaches such as ERP, TQM, Six Sigma, ABC and Balanced Scorecards. Overseas competitors and partners, rapidly changing and expanding product lines, the ever increasing role of services and demand volatility have combined to present unique challenges for this sector. Effectively addressing them requires greater collaboration to coordinate an ever increasing number of component parts. Greater management process integration is central to achieving this to effectively address a number of common business issues:

• Managing demand changes and capacity constraints using sales & operations planning (S&OP)
• Improving S&OP by combining it with NPD processes to more effectively manage capacity constraints
• Improving financial planning by combining it with S&OP processes
• Understanding and managing total costs of products, services and customers
• Managing supply chains across different business units and legal entities
• Improving granularity of stock-profit eliminations
• Ability to analyze sales and intercompany in transaction and reporting currency
• Generation of factory, distribution center and business unit P&Ls