title: Maximizing the potential of your systems.
abstract: In the last two decades, manufacturing businesses throughout the United States have learned that an important factor affecting the productivity of their manufacturing systems when implementing manufacturing resource planning is the way they approach the implementation itself. Eighty percent of an implementation effort needs to be devoted to preparing people in the organization to use the system and only 20 percent should be devoted to purchasing the system.
authors.affiliation: P.J. Bettini Consulting, Oliver Wright Companies, Clemmons, NC, USA.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Bettini
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011357:Product Line Management; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D012984:Software; D013597:Systems Analysis; D014481:United States