New tools provide expanded choices that support today's business environment.
Plants only deliver to the customer what is asked of them, on time and of sufficient quality, and report exceptions if they fail. Facilities are monitored and, if not profitable, sold or shut down. To make things more difficult, some sites have had to increase head count because of the increased number of manual entries required to support ERP applications. Sometimes the challenge for plant operations is to just stay even. But these considerations usually do not surface outside of comprehensive business process reengineering efforts.