Business analysis can help manufacturers better achieve their goals with improved organisation, less waste, better technology, lower costs, higher profits, compliance achievement, higher quality and more.  So how can strong business analysis improve your manufacturing warehouse processes and therefore your business? (more…)

Strong business analysis in manufacturing will help simplify processes, reduce costs, improve sales and enable high quality software and systems to be built.  Poor business analysis will only hugely hinder these elements, can constrain the business within poorly designed systems, technology and software that limit innovation programs, reduce flexibility, increase budgets and reduce profits and constrain growth.  So what are some of these costly mistakes and how do you avoid them? (more…)

There are basic lessons that can be learned from designing brochure, shopping or marketing websites that can be applied to websites designed for manufacturing business operational use.  Here are 5 quick tips.

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Spreadsheets are used everywhere in manufacturing outside core systems, from planning lines and labour requirements through to tracking over time hours, understanding capacity, reviewing materials against order requirements and analysing waste.  There comes a point however when far from being a temporary solution for a business, the spreadsheet instead becomes a major part of how an operation functions.  When this happens the business increases its risk and can start falling behind in terms of understanding and applying cost saving measures, having restrictions imposed when carrying out improvement initiatives and not providing some key management information either timely or accurately.  Here are 10 tips if you’re using spreadsheets why you ought to consider an upgrade to using software and databases. (more…)