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Midsize Companies Need a Systematic Approach to Cost Analysis

By Rob Sher

Description:  As companies grow from small to midsize, manual checks will no longer suffice to track a broader array of costs back to individual products or services. Growing companies then require technologies such as ERP (enterprise resource planning), MRP (material requirements planning), and project management software to keep them on the right (and profitable) track by examining what creates value and at what cost, tracing the flow of labor and materials through the value-generation process, and minimizing the costs of excess assets like inventory or underutilized human assets. This is a key turning point in the digital transformation of midsize firms. Here’s how one of them pursued its digital transformation and implemented upgraded technology successfully. 

Read this article on Harvard Business Review online.

Systematic Approach to Cost Analysis
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