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How to help improve operational efficiency
 

Run your business like clockwork!

Columbus has gathered the experiences and best advice of manufacturing customers and experts in 4 topical guides. In this one, we discuss how to achieve operational efficiency in four easily implementable steps:

Improve forecast and budget accuracy through an integrated approach to fi nancial planning and budgeting

Increase supply chain visibility and collaboration with trading partners

Optimize inventory levels through the use of Lean tools throughout the enterprises

Reduce inefficiencies in the Engineering Change Orders process by creating a single version of the truth

Columbus Food Know How Guide #3
 
Torsten Lytken quote
 

In a company that relies heavily on an acquisition strategy, operational efficiency comes from putting all parts of the acquired company, finance, sales, supply chain, and manufacturing onto the corporate standard platform as quickly as possible.

 

 

 

Best-in-Class discrete manufacturers are more than 50% as likely as Laggard organizations to use automated software systems to manage engineering change orders.

According to a recent Aberdeen Group Benchmark Research Project sponsored
by Columbus

 
 
         
 

Don't miss our other guides on "How to improve revenue growth", "How to improve supply chain collaboration" and "How to improve quality control & industry compliance".

 
 
 

Columbus is widely recognized as a global leader in maximizing efficiency and business performance for manufacturing and distribution companies. With deep industry expertise we know how to make our clients more successful by adapting and implementing proven Microsoft-based solution sets for immediate business impact.


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