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5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean

Description: Becoming lean has been a goal of most companies over the last few years. Why is lean so popular? Lean delivers what companies really need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity, and better customer service.

To become Lean, a company must take a hard look at processes and practices to identify those that do not add value. The continuous pursuit of waste elimination is the essence of Lean.

As Lean thinking has evolved and the concepts broadened, Lean advocates have come to recognize that ERP and Lean work together very well. The 5 lean principles of value definition and specification, value stream mapping, uninterrupted flow, customer pull and the pursuit of perfection are all supported and enhanced by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.

Publisher: Epicor Software Corporation