Designing and making products specifically to customer requirements imposes specific constraints on any business but, as Ian Henderson notes in the introduction to the 68-page booklet, it is one area of manufacturing where UK companies still retain market advantage over low-cost producers from the emerging economies.

This book offers the lessons of experience derived from many years of consultancy and interim management experiences in ETO businesses. Planning and control approaches in such companies must reflect the different nature of the processes. The booklet explains the dangers and provides step-by-step guides through the minefields.

The guide was written firstly to help companies in the ETO sector struggling to cope with the difficulties of having to plan product design and perhaps installation and commissioning as well as the manufacturing of a product with only the tools of standard MRP / ERP systems. Secondly, it is intended to assist businesses feeling the pressure in the standard product environment and contemplating a move into a market where their product specialism offers competitive advantage.

It is of particular value to ETO companies about to embark upon the implementation of a Supply Chain / ERP package.

ISBN: 978-1898822042

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Other books and booklets available from MLG are:

Manufacturing Resource Planning by Robin Goodfellow

Sales & Operations Planning by Robin Goodfellow

Planning and Control of Manufacturing Operations by John Kenworthy