Discover how you can use your ERP as a strategic weapon: Read the 2008 Aberdeen Benchmark Report
Intense pressures to reduce costs outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2008. While ERP is typically viewed as a necessary infrastructure, it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and automating business processes – while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.
This report explores feedback provided by over 1,200 manufacturers, and aims to serve as a roadmap to those in the manufacturing community who want their ERP implementation to help them:
- reduce costs
- improve accuracy of inventory and schedules
- develop customer responsiveness
Five Compelling Facts from the Research Report – Through their ERP system, Best-in-Class Manufacturers achieve:
- 15% reduction in manufacturing operation and administrative costs.
- 20% reduction in inventory levels.
- 95% manufacturing schedule compliance
- 97% complete and on-time shipments
- close the month in only 3.3 days on average.
Use this Roadmap to use your ERP as a strategic weapon.
Strategic Actions of Best-in-Class

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