Throwback Thursday: Info sharing, meet sharing info
This manufacturing company decides it's finally time to start sharing information between different operations, according to a pilot fish on the scene.
"Specifically, we wanted to give inventory data from the warehouse to the manufacturing facility," fish says. "It would be used two ways, and as is typical of a large company, two independent groups were tasked to perform the two functions."
The first group's job: take an existing shop-floor, just-in-time application and add warehouse inventory data to the things the app considers when deciding which of the in-house orders to make next.
The second group's task: take an existing sales-projection program and bring in inventory data to allow orders to be placed for various products.