Lean Manufacturing for Inflated Bottom Lines
Lean-enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) reduces shop floor wastage and enables on-time delivery and zero inventory levels, according to Infosys’ experts. Lean manufacturing helps companies streamline operational levers and maximize benefits from an ERP implementation.
Manufacturing systems must manage demand flexibility even as they support a wide range of products. Our experts blog on how ERP techniques such as Kanban, backflushing and flow manufacturing, real-time communication with supply chain partners, and workflow-based processing can complement the principles of Lean manufacturing to improve the bottom-line significantly.
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Standardization: Top-down vs. Bottom-up
Our expert recommends a two-pronged standardization strategy as an option to the top-down and bottom-up implementation approaches.
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Is Lean Manufacturing the Answer to your Operational Woes? (Part I)
Lean manufacturing techniques such as Kanban, Just-in-Time and Value Stream Mapping eliminate wastage across the manufacturing process.
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Is Lean Manufacturing the Answer to your Operational Woes? (Part II)
Lean techniques can be incorporated into ERP packages and supply chain products to enhance process efficiency.
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Top-down vs. Bottom-up Techniques in Manufacturing: The Debate Continues (Part I)
The level of standardization in an ERP implementation depends on the uniqueness of business processes.
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Top-down vs. Bottom-up Techniques in Manufacturing: The Debate Continues (Part II)
Companies must analyze the impact of customization before undertaking a package-enabled business transformation.
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Give your ERP a Lean Boost
The unified data model of ERP packages can be used to customize Lean initiatives.
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Why Lean may Need ERP
While Lean signifies a pull-based system and ERP involves a push-based mechanism for managing supply chains, they complement each other, when used properly.
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