Articles - Reward and Risk Questions
Increasing competitive pressures and increasing manufacturing complexity are combining to force more and more management teams to struggle to cope with conflicting demands to simultaneously win new business and to keep existing business. Many management teams are turning to TACTIC advanced planning and scheduling software to help improve competitiveness.
Rewards
As changes and problems occur, management teams use TACTIC's sophisticated what-if features and the improved visibility and flexibility provided by TACTIC to develop plans that simultaneously:
- Increase sales revenues
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Tie up less capital in their businesses
Risks
As with any new technology, there are bound to be required changes to achieve benefits. With change comes risk. Risk to achieving the benefits associated with adding TACTIC can be divided into two broad categories.
- Migration from existing manual or automated capacity management and delivery promising methods to the use of TACTIC.
- Integrating TACTIC with new or existing computer systems, paper work systems and operating procedures.
Application Articles and White Papers
As you investigate the potential of TACTIC for your management team, you may want to read one or more TACTIC Applicaton Articles or White Papers. Application articles are written by TACTIC users. Each describes their business situation, how they managed the risks of implementing TACTIC, and the benefits they achieved. White papers describe various concepts associated with advanced planning and scheduling. They may help you balance the potential benefits and risks of adding this capability to your business.