Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, September 13, 2017 / Categories: Infor LX & BPCS Tips BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: The 3 Secrets to Improving Your MO (Manufacturing Optimization) Identify the key metrics. You need benchmark data so you know what realistic goals are, then track them and publish your performance along with a brief comment from time to time on how things are trending and how you compare with others, particularly your primary competitors. The best thing about this is that it is a system that develops a life of its own. Measure it. Automatically, people start to think about improving things. Then the fun part, stuff begins to improve by itself. Once in place, the system just hums along and the benefits appear, because it has motivated people to think about it, and figure out what they can do to make it better. Communicate it. Publish your numbers, and explain to people how what they do affects the company as a whole and its success/failure. Once they see the numbers, employees quite often start to modify their behavior for the better. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! Previous Article BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Gain Efficiency & Save Money – Evaluate Your Production Lines Next Article Baan/LN Tip of the Week: 4 Benefits to Consider - Cross-Docking Print 30767 Rate this article: No rating Anthony EtzelAnthony Etzel Other posts by Anthony Etzel Contact author Facebook page Twitter Linked In YouTube Website
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