Manufacturers finding business intelligence elusive
Doug Bartholomew has written an article at IndustryWeek entitled “Manufacturers finding business intelligence elusive.”
The article talks about the growing need for real-time information to make better decisions. According to the article, “ultimately, the goal of manufacturers is to be able to combine real-time information on the supply chain, operations and business information such as cost data to enable better decision-making.”
As I’ve talked about many times here, there is a tremendous amount of interest in this area. The key to realizing benefits though is to not just focus on visibility alone - but to think about the employees and business processes that need to leverage the visibility and how they need to do that. It is only by empowering people with the information and tools they need to improve responsiveness that companies will realize true business benefits.
This is not just a function of reporting. You need to be able to act on the information to solve business problems - and reporting alone is insufficient to do this. You need tools that facilitate multi-enterprise collaboration and rapid, accurate decision-making that is aligned with business objectives.
