Whether you are a Manufacturer, or simply a project-based service business where getting lots of small projects completed on time is how you earn your living, a flexible project planning tool may be the critical factor to your success and profitability.
Let's face it, manufacturing is all about efficiency. It's the process of transforming raw materials into a unique finished product through a series of coordinated activities.
Around 30 years ago, Eli Goldratt revolutionized manufacturing theory by challenging the notion of individual job costing. He introduced the concept of throughput costing..
High Duty Plastics uses MORE-MX to plan all production in one central place. Everyone works off one plan, which is displayed to all involved through one avenue. Staff go to one place for information, whether it’s to look at recipes or find answers to questions.
“We’re getting huge time efficiencies – an average of 35-40% – from the start of the order right through to dispatch,” says Tom Vigor-Brown, Design and Production Manager, High Duty Plastics Ltd.
MORE-MX has seamless integration with MYOB. It provides a full, flexible business solution for all types of manufacturing environments. A perfect solution for MTO (made to order) production environments. MX has the flexibility to manage the production process and handover to accounts.
So you've been offered a Cloud solution. Sounds compelling. No upfront cost, dump your old server and let the experts manage your data at a 'surprisingly affordable monthly rate'.
But wait - the basic premise is, you have to hand over one of your most valuable assets - your data. As a manufacturer, you probably possess commercially valuable data: Product recipes that took years to perfect. Know-how, job costings and quality records that you wouldn't want to make public..?
Sometimes in the buzz and hype of new technology being offered, commonsense factors are overlooked.
One of those is the role of corporate accountants. While they are not the villains here, they are paid to do a job, and that job is reasonably inevitable. So it would be foolish to ignore the future implications to the industry.
Something that cloud developers know right now but haven’t told their corporate accountants yet, is that the hardware economy of scale argument for a cloud app is not what they think..
