tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10695297179681136752011-07-28T07:21:13.052-04:00To openly report and discuss issues related to the implementation of Exact Software's MAX ERP system and related philosophies and technologies.William R. Elder, CPIMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069529717968113675.post-88096886066116331992009-12-07T18:04:00.004-05:002009-12-08T18:33:01.597-05:00

There are many different schools of thought in operations management and within each we often find the purist. Two such purists would include the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) purist and the Lean Manufacturing (LM) purist. According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, a purist is: “One who adheres strictly and often excessively to a tradition; especially: one preoccupied with the purity of a

William R. Elder, CPIMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069529717968113675.post-41865864340695220932009-08-16T16:54:00.001-04:002009-12-07T18:13:17.499-05:00

Your company is a long time user (i.e., since early 1990's) of a small business Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This manufacturing planning system contains an integrated accounting system as well. One of the major characteristics of these systems is that they are transaction based. This means that as transactions are processed in operations (i.e., receipts, issues, transfers, etc.)

William R. Elder, CPIMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069529717968113675.post-42484590438723749112009-07-11T14:00:00.001-04:002009-07-11T14:01:43.489-04:00

Welcome to the first post on Solutions - BlogBlogs have been around since the beginning of the Internet, it just took until 1999 for them to be named as such. Blogs with simple user interfaces (like Blogger) have been around for about ten years. I figured it was time to move to the bi-directional blog format.Just as with the printed newsletter, blog articles will be published as interesting

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