The purpose of an ERP is to make work easier; if you need a separate team just to enter data, the ERP is eating man-hours. In many manufacturing companies an ERP is bought, but over time the hours spent at the screen grow, data arrives late and the ERP becomes unreliable.
6 signs
- Delivery note and certificate values are typed into the ERP line by line
- The operator's paper sheet is entered into the ERP by someone else at the end of the shift
- When the manager wants a chart, someone prepares a report by hand in a spreadsheet
- Material shelf life or instrument calibration is only noticed during an audit
- The same information is entered separately in sales, in the warehouse and in quality
- The sentence "it is in the ERP, but we are not sure it is right" is heard often
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Which ones do you have?
Most of these signs come not from the ERP itself but from a person having to enter the data. The remedy is to let the ERP prepare the data instead of the person: a draft record from the photo of the document, a work order that starts and ends with a barcode, and early warnings of a likely error.
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Prepared by NTB SpecPro process quality engineering; reviewed by an engineer holding the International Welding Engineer (IWE) qualification. Questions: info@ntbspecpro.com
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