Discrete manufacturing
Delivery dates are guesswork. Nobody can say where an order stands. The drawing changed but the floor is still building the old revision. Every new system adds another set of books.
Start with ERP so the ledger is under control, then add in order of pain: APS for dates you can actually hit, MES for traceable execution, PLM so nobody builds a stale revision, then WMS and SRM. Each addition registers one more data type in the authority matrix — never two places posting the same thing.
Discrete manufacturing
- Quote a date computed from real capacity and real material availability
- Trace every issue, pass and report back to person, machine and batch
- Inventory and payroll stay on exactly one ledger, in ERP