Lean ERP and engineer-to-order manufacturing can go together, says AMR
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For make-to-order and engineer-to-order manufacturing companies, the ability to embrace product and engineering changes is central to achieving responsiveness to demand – and it can be done with lean ERP.
So says Mike Burkett, vice president of research at analyst AMR Research, and he adds that his comments are especially true for anyone working in the aerospace and defence industry.
“In highly engineered, complex manufacturing environments, constant change around design has a direct impact on how lean you can actually be,” he says.
That being the case, he argues that lean ERP in this sector has to focus on attaining the highest levels of accuracy and replicable quality possible, in all sourcing, production and fulfilment activities.
Which is important, since government programmes are demanding more risk-management from aerospace and defence vendors, particularly in regard to cost, schedules and design.
Burkett claims that his strategies can help achieve 50% to 90% increases in requests of quote and engineering change-order response time, as well as up to 90% reductions in order errors and as much as 80% cost reductions in documentation.
Engineer-to-order lean ERP specialist Cincom has recorded a 30-minute webinar, ‘understanding and Optimising Engineering’s role in a Lean Value Chain’, in which Burkett discusses strategies that aerospace and defence companies can take to become lean, externally focused and value-driven.
