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- Products & Services
- Software & consulting services in alphabetical order
- Products and consulting services arranged by category
- Bells & Whistles software bolt-ons for BPCS & ERP LX
- Lickety-Split automatically loads spreadsheet data through the green screen program that would otherwise be used to keypunch the data
- By Invitation Only greatly simplifies maintenance of BPCS/ERP LX user authorities
- Due Diligence discovers separation of duties conflicts in BPCS / ERP LX user authority definitions
- Stitch-in-Time keeps a what-who-how-when record of every database change for observed iSeries files
- PaperSaver delivers high-$-impact MRP exception messages that are not available from vanilla BPCS / ERP LX
- Locksmith archives BPCS / ERP LX master files, extension files, and transaction files
- Item Undertaker greatly simplifies the task of deactivating item master records
- Security compliance products and services
- Download Unbeaten Path software products
- 2-day training: paints a target on world class performance and lays out a plan to get there
- Standing Ovation classroom training, reference manuals, training books for BPCS / ERP LX
- Strategic assessments: business practice + profit opportunity identification
- JumpStart Strategic Assessments - undiluted and unvarnished advice for CEOs
- No Stone Unturned strategic business practice assessments
- Identification of profit enhancement opportunities using strategies for more precise financial measurement
- Letters of recommendation received by Unbeaten Path
- Written by BPCS / ERP LX users: software usage assessments, consulting support for users, professional services, technical consulting, programming
- Authored by manufacturing enterprises: assessments of operational effectiveness, strategic direction, BPCS / ERP LX implementation readiness
- Composed by overseas BPCS, ERP LX, iSeries users: technical consulting, education, training, programming, version migration, and implementation professional services
- BPCS and ERP LX professional consulting services
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- Enhance the performance of overseas operations
- Prepare for the next external audit visit - SOX or JSOX or QSA or PCI
- System migrations: implement new software or move iSeries operations to a new box
- Establish authentic corporate commitment to achieve World Class performance
- JumpStart Strategic Assessments - undiluted and unvarnished advice for CEOs
- Identify opportunities to move towards a World Class performance target
- Commitment for Excellence classroom training
- Description of education designed for senior executives and managers
- Amazingly positive feedback from Commitment for Excellence students
- Sample Unbeaten Path training proposal
- Reference letters -- Unbeaten Path Commitment for Excellence classroom education
- Sample pages from Commitment for Excellence training material
- Author operating policies that are in harmony with both world-class principles and ERP software functionality
- Present a complex project plan to the CEO in a graphic, single-page, digestable format
- Improve your company's usage of BPCS/ERP LX manufacturing functionality
- Get an expert opinion on how your company can earn a better ROI on BPCS in manufacturing
- Provide classroom training on manufacturing functionality
- Investigate unused functionality by preparing an expert prototype for a few representative items
- Coach individual users how they could do their job more effectively with BPCS
- Assess the integrity of data in manufacturing-related master files
- Make better use of MPS/MRP exception reporting
- Polish the way your company uses BPCS/ERP LX software
- Assess how well your users are applying BPCS/ERP LX functionality
- Demonstrate how software can be used in a more robust way by developing an expert prototype
- Manage BPCS user security profiles more efficiently
- Provide your BPCS or ERP LX users with Standing Ovation classroom training
- Assess the integrity of BPCS/ERP LX master file data
- Get expert technical support for BPCS + ERP LX software
- Classroom training for BPCS/ERP LX users
- Navigate by Type of Problem
- I don't see my problem described in this list
- Internal controls / Sarbanes-Oxley compliance uncertain
- We don't have audit trails for crucial iSeries master files
- User profile definitions are very hard to manage in BPCS / ERP LX
- By Invitation Only software makes user profile maintenance much easier in BPCS / ERP LX
- Learn why user definition functionality is so clunky in both BPCS and ERP LX
- We need an efficient + reliable way to determine if there are any separation of duties surprises concealed in our BPCS / ERP LX user definitions
- Our Sarbanes-Oxley external audit costs too much and takes too much of our time
- We don't have a solid game plan for achieving a better audit result next year
- It takes way to long to answer audit questions about who has permission to access what in BPCS/ERP LX
- Last year the auditor complained that we didn't have a fool-proof audit trail for our master files
- Our auditor billed us about 100 hours to check for vulnerabilities in iSeries OS internal controls
- We took some heat for purging old transactions in BPCS instead of archiving them
- Auditors have told us that our software change process doesn't have strong enough controls
- The principles of Software Change & Configuration Management are not understood by senior executives
- Confusion between different versions of the same code have caused some nightmares
- When the programming and testing is done, we have no automatic/reliable way to deploy the changed code back to our many production environments
- Perhaps the IBM i operating system has an undetected security vulnerability
- It takes too long to perform an iSeries operating system vulnerability assessment
- iSeries operating system security vulnerabilites are hard to understand -- not sure we have a full list of the potential problems
- Don't have in-house expertise to find + fix iSeries operating system security vulnerabilities
- Review free sample of an iSeries vulnerability assessment report
- The "SSA Group Profile" security hole hasn't been fixed
- We need to know more about compliance requirements
- Support decision pending: purchase INFOR maintenance ... or ... identify alternative support solution for BPCS / ERP LX
- Financial operations don't run smoothly or efficiently
- Accounts payable process isn't efficient
- Our general ledger postings from sub-systems are not uniformly reliable
- Key members of our financial staff require training on the functionality of financial modules in BPCS or ERP LX
- We don't have a go-to technical person that can unravel posting accidents
- Unauthorized setup changes happen and they are invisible
- Sub-system posting vulnerabilities are very difficult to pinpoint
- Standard cost information isn't precise / variance measurements are not reliable
- The accuracy of inventory postings to the general ledger is not high enough
- Turnover in the accounting staff has caused knowledge voids
- We need classroom training for new employees in the financial department
- The staff isn't confident handling multiple currency/FX translation requirements
- Our measurement/presentation of financial results requires some polish
- We don't have qualified technical support to find/correct jammed up entry errors
- We've never had an expert assessment about the suitability of our CEF setups
- The month-end close jobs take way too much machine time
- Our level of inventory accuracy is below the 95% minimum
- Inventory postings into our general ledger are not reliable enough
- User training is needed because knowledge about inventory module functionality has eroded over time
- Shop floor employees don't fully understand the need for inventory data accuracy
- Inventory write-offs are too frequent and/or too large
- We don't have a reliable way to estimate the adequacy of our balance sheet reserve for obsolete inventory
- We've never had expert advice on how to configure standard costs and cost variances
- We've never had an expert assess our current inventory and standard cost practices
- Our costs might be off and we don't have the BPCS/ERP LX training we need to start fixing them
- Database integrity is not adequate
- Inventory model and macro setup faults could be causing problems
- Routing definitions are not comprehensive enough
- There is an internal debate between better shop floor reporting and too many transactions to keypunch by hand
- We have approval to invest time improving our routings: now we need some coaching on how to do that well
- Our engineers require training on on how to establish routings and configure work centers in BPCS/ERP LX
- We're getting results that suggest that our BPCS database configuration is not optimal
- The accuracy of bill of material data is not at our 98% target
- Our BPCS database is littered with obsolete item records
- We don't have audit trails to track changes in master files
- Most BPCS column headings and many formats are wrong -- that makes Query + SQL harder for us to use
- Manufacturing planning modules aren't working in BPCS / ERP LX
- We're running the plant and material planning with Excel spreadsheets
- Plant-specific material planning results not consolidated at our HQ level
- Our company doesn't have a formal policy/procedure for manufacturing planning
- We don't have a step-by-step plan for how to go about implementing BPCS/ERP LX planning functionality
- Employees don't understand MRP II principles; our company doesn't really know what "World Class" looks like
- We've never had an expert assess how we could use BPCS/ERP LX planning better
- We know MDM functionality and our BOMs are OK, but we don't know how to go live with MPS/MRP
- Our BOM structures may not be accurate enough nor constructed well enough to allow MRP to function
- Training is needed for our planners because they have incomplete knowledge of manufacturing planning functionality in BPCS/ERP LX
- It's unrealistic to use MPS/MRP exception reporting -- important information buried by too much chaff in the report
- We don't have an efficient, reliable way to load PC-generated sales forecasts into BPCS
- We're running the plant and material planning with Excel spreadsheets
- Elements of BPCS / ERP LX not well used vis-à-vis full functionality of the software
- Key strategic decision pending: migrate up to ERP LX ... or ... drop BPCS and move to SAP or Oracle or something else