Whether you are a producer or a retailer, today’s industry tendencies made important changes on design, product development and procurement cycle which affect everyone in the industry. All these orientations puts more pressure on new style development, confirmation processes and supplier relations. Besides all these developments, most of the business enterprises in the sector doesn’t have a system that can handle this pressure. Processes are usually handled manually and by excel tables, e-mails and tons of phone calls. That makes processes very disjointed which brings weak communications between departments and in the end, problems which can’t be undone.
A good Critical Path (CPM) management’s goal is to guarantee you that all your operations from product design to sample works, customer orders to procurement operations, cost to actual cost , confirmation processes and quality control, shipment and delivery will be on time.