The Exacting Needs of Metal Service Centers
P.J. Jakovljevic - November 30, 2005

Needs Definition

There is one market where the vast majority of general enterprise resource planning (ERP) products show a number of "fatal flaws". Metal services centers, which perform operations like cutting, slitting, painting, galvanizing, anodizing, etc., and their related converting operations, which may involve paper, textiles, plastics, etc., suffer from an absence of "must have" capabilities. Such omissions impede an enterprise's operation—often resulting in complete failure...