By providing the right system that helps the procurement managers plan their purchase; the production manager manage the production activities on the shop floor; the sales guys manage their hot leads and existing clients; and above all, the top brass with all the relevant data and reports for strategic decision making, you make your life as a CIO easier.
Let’s understand it better by first delving into the challenges the modern-day CIOs face, and then looking at the possible ways how an ERP software helps them address those challenges.
Challenges that peg the CIOs back
There are a number of issues that confront the CIOs in their day-to-day routine.
Delivering on the production, sales, and other fronts, and enabling service agility with the existing IT resources is a massive challenge for the CIOs.
These disparate systems are often characterized as information silo as they operate in complete isolation from other data systems, resulting in lack of communication between different areas of the business.
So when the different set of needs of process manufacturers could not be met by software that was built to follow the production on assembly lines, the dedicated ERP solutions for process manufacturing industry came into existence.
The methodology uses Bills of Materials (BOMs), and assembles components along with a routing.
Process manufacturing items include food, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, cosmetics and paints to name a few- the products that are the result of recipes and formulations which when mixed, change the composition of the original raw material and cannot be disassembled.
In discrete manufacturing, the products are BOM based, and can be broken down as they are assembled by nuts, bolts, brackets, wires, etc.
In discrete manufacturing, the production follows a route, such as an assembly line, where identical products are duplicated as the raw materials used to create these products are the same from the first job to the next.
On the other hand, in process manufacturing, the ingredients are blended or refined in batches and manufactured using formulas/recipes.
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It is not just the pervasive presence that makes the cloud a game changer for manufacturing, it is the integration achieved through cloud adoption that makes it lead transformer.From the first moving assembly line of Ford Motors more than a hundred years ago, to the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, automobile manufacturing has undergone changes that have added massive value to the products.
Most importantly, as a tech dependent sector, industries that embraced innovation and technology continue to taste success.
Cloud – the enabler of solutions
Among the various reasons that make cloud imperative, five factors standout as compelling.
A commercial reality, globalization has helped manufacturers tap into expertise and cheaper overheads, to stay competitive.
The need to integrate all operations into a unified process makes cloud the only infrastructure that can meet all needs.
Originally posted on 3i Infotech - Orion ERP
