The key issues in the manufacturing 'crises'; a series of 'question and answer's.

Australia is at a crossroads in manufacturing. With global competition coming from many sources like India and China we are under threat of losing our manufacturing capability.

Common complaints emerging from organisations implementing ERP systems.

It is time to take a realistic look at the industry and the what's behind the high cost and high failures of ERP.

"Sign a cheque solution" implies that if you sign this cheque, it will all fall into place. The cheque will typically be very large, with few, if any, guarantees of success.

For companies included in 70% statistic of underperforming ERP systems, the warning signs are there from the beginning.

Moving on from MRPII: The fundamental principles behind Lean Manufacturing.

Lean manufacturing is a comprehensive term referring to methodologies based on maximising value and minimising waste in the manufacturing process.

Our work with many organisations on ERP project analysis, project recovery and expert witness work indicate some interesting recurring events.

Consciously re-engineering manual processes and eliminating 'cost-adding' activities that provide no value.

With only 30% of implementations achieving the returns expected, it is time to take a realistic look at how we are going about things.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, whilst seen as essential for todays business, comes with a considerable amount of risk. The statistics on success are alarming.

A new era coming to Australia in ERP and this will result in a more open transparent honest relationship between sellers and the company.

One of the ten main reasons ERP systems implementations fail to match expectations: “The Lack of Top Management Commitment”.

ERP, yesterday's great vision! Today we don't discuss it in public!  This article gives us 'The Devil's Triangle'.

Over the last five years the success rates of ERP implementations have run at somewhere around 30% to 40%.