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1) What is a dashboard? A dashboard is an easy-to-understand, visually intuitive graphical representation of key business performance metrics, easily accessed by users from a single screen. Color coded bar charts, graphs and other visual depictions of data give users a fast look at key metrics important to their functional area. 2) What do dashboards [...]
ERP systems play a role in performance improvement goals, from facilitating automation to streamlining business processes. But how can you use ERP to drive performance improvement? What’s the first step? Ultra’s ERP consulting team and the manufacturers we work with share this goal of implementing process improvement programs to drive business performance improvement. Technology as [...]
1) What is a process map? A process map lays out each of the step-by-step workflow activities for a functional part of a business organization. Each step isolates an individual process into a workflow diagram for a clear depiction of a process or series of parallel processes. Within the process step, we document what happens [...]
Happy New Year from all of us at Ultra Consultants! As the New Year gets underway, many CIOs and manufacturing IT departments are entering into projects to improve their organization’s overall competitive position in the marketplace. With this focus in mind, we read with interest an InformationWeek article that suggested six ways IT is still [...]
Why Change? Recently we began working with a $100 million consumer products company. The company manufactures and distributes products that are sold to retail chains and distributors in the sporting goods and hardware industries. Over the last decade their business model has shifted from solely manufacturing to a combination of manufacturing and distribution. In fact, [...]
Most ERP systems today capture, store, and trend a range of information such as quality, production, shipping, financial, supply chain activity and much more. With access to more timely and accurate information, the assumption is that manufacturers use that data to take the needed action to improve business processes. Data helps improve quality, minimize late [...]
We work with many companies at various stages of an ERP implementation to help them realize business performance improvement and to charter a journey of continuous improvement. Frequently, we find that our mid-market clients do not have a formal execution plan to match the goals of their business plan and that their innovation, supply chain, [...]
On Thursday May 10th I attended the 13th annual Technology Executive Network (TEN) Conference in Rosemont, IL. In attendance at the conference were over 50 CIOs from the Chicagoland area. The focus of the conference centered on the evolving role of the CIO and the need to combine business savvy with the ability to successfully [...]
At Ultra, we generally advocate for transforming ERP and other organizational data into Star Schema Data Marts, and using those data marts as the input to Business Intelligence (BI) software suites. There are other valid approaches such as using the live ERP data (or a copy of it) as input to the BI tool (lower [...]
Over the years I have seen different types of conflict at manufacturing companies when they consider ERP software. Many of these companies have implemented “lean” manufacturing programs. The majority of those efforts has focused on shop floor improvements, but has also found their way into “lean” office improvements. The conflict occurs when the company begins [...]
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