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Paul Deis, CFPIM, is CEO, PROACTION (www.proaction.net). He brings over 25 years of consulting and senior executive experience to his work, including detailed work with nearly 60 companies. Prior to acquiring PROACTION, Paul's experience includes running a small ERP software company, leading other consulting businesses, prior work with PROACTION, Manager at Deloitte & Touche, VP Manufacturing at Raypak, Inc., where he was very successful with an early Lean management initiative, and dozens of projects in the areas of enterprise software, operations management, crisis resolutions, in a wide variety of industries, business types, and scales. Visit our website at PROACTION - Generating Best Practices.

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Inventory Accuracy in 60 Days
Despite great advances in manufacturing technology and management science, thousands of organizations still don't have a handle on basic inventory record accuracy. This paper offers an approach that has proven successful a number of times, when companies were quite serious about making improvements. Not only can it be accomplished, but it can likely be done within 60 days per area, if properly managed. The hardest part is selling people on the need to improve and then keeping them motivated. Read
By: Paul Deis | 15/08/2006 | Small Business
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Process Improvement - a How to Guide
This paper first defines key terms, then discusses how to improve inputs to the process, the improvement process itself, and wraps up with some "lessons learned" advice. Although production and manufacturing terms are employed, nearly everything herein works for service businesses and office operations. Read
By: Paul Deis | 15/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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Aggregate Inventory Management
Aggregate inventory management is an often neglected Best Practice area. This article explains, and serves as a mini-Best Practice checklist for proven methods and techniques that, when done correctly, bring substantial improvement into the inventory performance for almost any company. Most of these techniques are not dependent on any enterprise software system in particular, and so are relatively universal. Read
By: Paul Deis | 11/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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Lean and Erp - Can They Co-exist?
Some pundits have opined that ERP is dead and Lean replaces it. That's like saying that the car chassis is replaced by the new engine. ERP is the backbone system of a modern enterprise, for integration of supply chain and administrative activities. Lean is a management philosophy, with supporting tools and techniques to run a business much faster, cheaper ­ better. They are NOT mutually exclusive, but Lean ERP must differ from the traditional approach. Read
By: Paul Deis | 11/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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Erp Implementation Lessons Learned
Despite great advances in manufacturing technology and management science, thousands of organizations still don't have a handle on basic inventory record accuracy. This paper offers an approach that has proven successful a number of times, when companies were quite serious about making improvements. Not only can it be accomplished, but it can likely be done within 60 days per area, if properly managed. Read
By: Paul Deis | 10/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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Reengineering: 40 U$eful Hints
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) principles have been around for a long time, and in recent years they started coming together as a discipline, incorporating world class business principles and focusing on quantum improvements. BPR is the complete or partial "reinventing" of how business processes are done, to attain major performance improvement. This article will contribute by stating and helping to clarify a number of important principles, plus useful insights, techniques and hints. Read
By: Paul Deis | 10/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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The New Conference Room Pilot
This article looks at the definition and role of the conference room pilot in success of major business system projects. Most importantly, the article discusses how to set up and operate a CRP. Read
By: Paul Deis | 10/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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A Guide to Inventory Reduction
Inventory is the largest single asset on the balance sheet of many manufacturers and distributors. It is usually the most expensive asset to own and maintain. This paper addresses how to manage Inventory investment to optimum levels, which means a reduction or major redistribution of it in most companies. Read
By: Paul Deis | 10/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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How to Manage a Business Systems Implementation Plan
It is rare that the Best Practices outlined in this article are rigorously applied to implementation projects. As a result, they typically run into a series of problems. This article will enhance your insight into what constitutes the best ways to plan, manage, and complete implementation of small or major enterprise software system. This article also covers the steps your team needs to perform to assure the greatest chances of success. Read
By: Paul Deis | 09/08/2006 | Strategic Planning
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Inventory Accuracy Hints
Does your company need to improve inventory accuracy? Often, writings on inventory accuracy improvement focus on techniques, such as cycle counting. You probably aren't going to cycle count your way to inventory accuracy, without also making major improvements in the material handling, transaction control, reporting and feedback process. Read
By: Paul Deis | 09/08/2006 | Strategic Planning