-- 21% reduction in inventory levels
-- 17% reduction in manufacturing operational costs
-- 16% reduction in administrative costs
In addition survey results showed Best-in-Class firms take 3.6 days to
close a month, less than half the time it takes Laggard companies, and
achieve superior performance in metrics critical to customer service
including:
-- 95% manufacturing schedule compliance
-- 96% on-time and complete shipments
-- 97% inventory accuracy
"While both profitable growth and customer service are dominant factors
impacting ERP strategies, as mid-size companies grow, they must learn to
operate in a distributed environment and often experience a proliferation
of ERP systems. This may be unavoidable if growth is through acquisition,
but can be controlled when growth is organic," says Cindy Jutras, Vice
President and Group Director, ERP Research, Aberdeen Group. "Even when
confronted with disparate ERP implementations, companies are well-advised
to adhere to standardize ERP implementations. Where multiple ERPs have been
acquired, you will ultimately be faced with a decision to rationalize ERPs
or not. Consolidation efforts have an enormous potential for saving time
and money, but there is a price to pay in terms of software and services
costs as well as business disruption in order to reach this goal.
Ultimately those projects which have a dual purpose of reducing costs and
standardizing business processes achieve the most success."
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