Can Lean and ERP Work Together?

By Doug Bartholomew

April 18, 2012

With its top-down approach to materials planning and production scheduling, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems often conflict with lean production's pull scheduling. Despite this and other conflicts, many large and midsize manufacturers are finding ways to have their lean initiatives and ERP systems coexist, and even work together, as this IndustryWeek story shows.

http://www.industryweek.com/systems-integration/can-lean-and-erp-work-together

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Doug Bartholomew

About Doug Bartholomew

Douglas Bartholomew is a journalist specializing in manufacturing, information technology, and finance. A former Senior Technology Editor and IT Columnist at IndustryWeek magazine and Senior Writer at InformationWeek, he has written extensively for a variety of manufacturing publications and online sites.