How can a midsize manufacturer streamline its order-to-delivery process?(Ask AberdeenGroup)

Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005

According to AberdeenGroup, many companies have already improved return-on-assets for the order-to-delivery process with long-standing and well-run programs such as lean manufacturing. Now these companies are focusing on the 80 percent of order lead time associated with order management, warehousing, transportation, and supply management.

However, order-to-delivery flexibility is one of the significant competitive advantages that midsize manufacturers have versus large manufacturers, and it can't be compromised as part of the streamlining process. Midsize manufacturers understand their current order-to-delivery processes are nothing but a set of loosely coupled functions that aren't as integrated and streamlined as they should be. As a result, midsize...

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