Tham khảo tài liệu 'effective success with enterprise resource planning_9', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 274 ERP Making It Happen deal to order parts. They won t take the time to learn about ERP nor will they authorize an audit assessment. A Proven Path implementation on a company-wide basis is just not in the cards. The solution here could be a Proven Path implementation on a Quick-Slice basis. Quick Slice is low dollars low risk high return quick results. It just might get their attention. It did at Engelhard Industries Chemical Group in Great Britain. The project leader there Andy Coldrick 1 made it happen on a Quick-Slice basis. In so doing he and his team demonstrated to senior management the enormous power of what was then called Manufacturing Resource Planning. Once they saw it with their own eyes they were convinced. They then proceeded to lead a company-wide implementation with Class A results. 5. Jumbo-sized company. Companies2 whose head count is well into the thousands typically have a more difficult time implementing ERP or just about any other major improvement initiative for that matter . The reason is simply more people more layers in the organization more communications interfaces more competing initiatives underway more opportunities for people not to get on board more time required to make things happen and so on. The Quick-Slice approach dramatically reduces the size of the effort. One can get one s arms around an organization of a few dozen or even a few hundred people and things can happen quickly. Obviously the first slice would be followed by another and another and another. 6. We re unique we re different. Let s say the company is in a somewhat specialized industry perhaps it makes widgets. The company thinks it may want to implement ERP but it s not sure. The reason No one in the widget 1 One of the pioneers of Quick-Slice ERP and formerly managing director of Oliver Wight UK. 2 Specific business units not necessarily entire corporations. Quick-Slice ERP Overview 275 business has ever tried ERP. Management is reluctant to invest big bucks .
