How to implement a manufacturing system: Best practices and pitfalls when implementing an MRP/ERP system - Softcover

Bailey, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527249263 ISBN 13: 9781527249264

Publisher: Martin Bailey, 2019

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered how to take your manufacturing business to the next level with an MRP system? Martin Bailey reveals the tried and tested formula that has helped hundreds of businesses to streamline their processes, showing what MRP can really do for your business.

If your company has yet to take the leap into implementing an MRP/ERP system or are struggling with existing software, then this book is for you. It explains and breaks down the methodology behind a MRP implementation.

This book will show:

1. Why many MRP/ERP implementations fail
2. MRP versus ERP
3. How to win the hearts and minds of staff
4. Planning your software/vendor selection process
5. Data - what to take and what to leave
6. Breaking down the implementation process
7. Managing the go-live process
8. How to measure success
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Regardless of your business or manufacturing process this book is packed with anecdotes of real-world problems and how manufacturers overcame them, breaking down the selection and implementation process in an easy to understand, non-technical way.

Includes a foreword by Dave Tudor, Editorial Director for Production Engineering Solutions magazine.

About the Author: Martin Bailey has written dozens of manufacturing case studies. This is his ninth book, and he regularly writes for the manufacturing trade press.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Bailey is an unashamed geek. His passion for technology started aged 11 when he bought a Sinclair ZX81, and quickly learnt basic programming before migrating to a ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and then onto PCs in the early 1990s. Since 1999 he has worked for software automation specialists JETCAM International, based in Monaco, where he is currently Managing Director. He regularly writes for the manufacturing sector press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Bailey
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1527249263
• ISBN 13: 9781527249264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152