Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, February 14, 2017 / Categories: Infor LX & BPCS Tips, Infor LN & Baan Tips Tip of the Week: The 3 Secrets to Improving Your MO (Manufacturing Optimization) Identify the key metrics. You need benchmark data so you know what realistic goals are, then track them and publish your performance along with a brief comment from time to time on how things are trending and how you compare with others, particularly your primary competitors. The best thing about this is that it is a system that develops a life of its own. Measure it. Automatically, people start to think about improving things. Then the fun part, stuff begins to improve by itself. Once in place, the system just hums along and the benefits appear, because it has motivated people to think about it, and figure out what they can do to make it better. Communicate it. Publish your numbers, and explain to people how what they do affects the company as a whole and its success/failure. Once they see the numbers, employees quite often start to modify their behavior for the better. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! Previous Article Metric of the Month: The Cost of General Accounting Next Article 10 Network Security Tools and Tests Everyone Should Use Print 38881 Rate this article: No rating Kathy BartheltKathy Barthelt Other posts by Kathy Barthelt Contact author Facebook page Twitter Linked In YouTube Website Leave a comment Name: Please enter a name. Email: Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Comment: Please enter comment. I agree This form collects your name, email, IP address and content so that we can keep track of the comments placed on the website. For more info check our Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use where you will get more info on where, how and why we store your data. You must read and accept this rules. Add comment