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Enterprise Modeling Management module in Common: define the calendar of companies (company calendar) and enterprise units.

Warehousing: link calendars to warehouses.

Service: use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing.

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• In the Enterprise Modeling Management module in Common, you can define the calendar of companies (company calendar) and enterprise units.
• In the People module, you can link calendars to teams of employees. The Hours and Expenses module in the People package uses this information to get the default number of hours from the calendar lines.
• In Common, you can link calendars to business partners and addresses; Procurement and Sales use this information when planning goods transfers.
• In Manufacturing, you can link calendars to work centers. The work centers' working times determine the available production capacity.
• In Warehousing, you can link calendars to warehouses.
• In Service, you use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing.

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Loss of Key Experienced Personnel– More and more of the original “super users” have changed jobs or retired. In their place are skilled individuals who may have been trained to execute specific tasks, but lack the experience required to respond to new and unplanned business needs and opportunities. As a result, decisions are made that may cause unintended problems. 

What is the best way to deal with this BEFORE the problem occurs? Read our blog to find out:

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Congratulations! You bought that shiny, new car! It has all the features you can possibly want and goes a million miles an hour. It can take you anywhere your heart desires…….but you rely on a manual scooter to get you around. You know, the kind you had when you were a kid…BEFORE you could drive…before you could afford the BMW. Make sense? Uh... no.

You’d never do this, right? So, why are you doing this with the ERP system that runs your business? Why are you relying on spreadsheets and separate little Access databases to record and store the information that is the most critical to your business when you have an ERP system that is meant for this? Why continue to plod along at a snail's pace when you have the tools to take your business to the next level?

Your ERP system is your BMW. Use it. See what it can do for you. Think you’ve used it to its potential? Unlikely. We’ve helped customers breathe new life into their EXISTING ERP version all by unlocking functionality for them that was already there and ready to use! We’ve also helped by offering add-ons to the ERP that can make your productivity skyrocket.

Ask us how. We’ve got an extra set of keys to the BMW in case you lost yours.

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1. 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.
    
2. 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.
    
3. 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.

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1. Train Your Employees
2. Give Your Employees the Right Tools
3. Automate Processes
4. Give Your Employees Real-Time Feedback
5. Provide Incentives to do More

For more ideas, read this article from the Harvard Business Review:

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Efficiency is something we all strive for in our personal lives and at work. How can manufacturers increase their efficiency? Take a hard look at the 4 key areas:

1. Planning
2. Bill of Material and Job Accuracy
3. Inventory Planning
4. Real Time Reporting / Processing 

Need help figuring out how to become more efficient in each of these areas? Contact us, we’d be happy to help.

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