What should e-business solutions have learned from ERP mistakes?
To be successful, solutions must narrow the scope and define the integration needed. They must plan for slower implementations of global rollouts and the required languages and support issues. Bigger is not better. Small providers can respond faster and provide far better service than a 500-pound gorilla. What is the critical success factor to making B2B APQP a reality? This is the automotive industry; people should not be forced to use software services. Costs should not be passed down the supply chain. There are 3 key components: (1) The OEM View – paid for and used by the OEMS; (2) Document authoring tools – to actually create the APQP documents and assignments, and actually execute the APQP process (paid for and used by the Supply Chain); (3) the B2B XML transfer from the Document Authoring Execution tools to the OEM view (this is a significant elimination of waste compared to re-entering information into every OEM home page by hand – and would be paid for by the supply chain). Do
