To improve organizational performance, you must improve your business processes, but you cannot improve until you bring it under control, and you cannot bring it under control until you have modeled the process and its internal business (data) rules.

The Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model represents Wizdom Systems's years of experience applying time-tested Business Process Reengineering tools and methods to manufacturing firms both large and small. This book was developed by manufacturing experts for manufacturing experts as well as business process improvement analysts - and their managers - in manufacturing firms of all shapes and sizes.

Learn how to:

• Develop process improvement goals in half the time.
• Test and evaluate improvement plans before you implement them.
• Guide your team through a successful process improvement project from start to finish.
• Convert process models to application code.
• Maximize operational effectiveness.
• Read, use, and develop activity models.

Contains easy to understand models, templates, tips, and techniques used in actual Manufacturing Enterprise Improvement Projects! No more starting from scratch. This book can help you speed process improvement efforts by more than 50%! Get a jump start on improving your manufacturing enterprise with this unique book. Everything you need is right here.

This book provides process improvememt teams with process templates to streamline the time it takes to analyze and redesign business processes. Inside, you will find a a comprehensive, graphical model of best business processes in a typical U.S. manufacturing company, as well as a process improvement primer, explaining the model and how to apply it. The companion CD includes an electronic version of the model and a viewer version of Wizdom's ProcessWorks!98^TM to access the model.

• The Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model represented by thirty diagrams, decomposed to the third level of detail and thirty pages of associated narrative test describing all of the pertinent activities of the Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model.
• Integrated glossary of terms, as well as the "where-used" identification of the specific diagram(s).
• A "how to read an IDEF0 process model" and other tips.
• Solutions for operational effectiveness.
• Modeling and analysis theory and techniques.
• WizdomWorks!^TM and DataWorks!^TM Viewers.
• ProcessWorks!98 Viewer software and Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model CD.