WORLD-CLRSS CHOICES

摘要

World-class manufacturing plants are more likely to use information technology and are better at squeezing profitability from that usage, according to results from the IW/MPI Census of Manufacturers. When compared with the overall pool of 828 participants, plants that identified themselves as having made "significant/full progress" toward world-class were investing in all listed business applications at a higher rate but especially asset management (17.7% more than all plants), warehouse-management systems (18.3%) and electronic data interchange, or EDI, at 18.8%.