Computer Management--Proactive Management

"Our manual system caused an awful lot of running around, being reactive rather than proactive, when making production decisions," Cannon states. "As we decided to go with an MIS system, we recognized that this was a good opportunity to look at our business processes as a whole and initiated a process re-engineering project to coincide with the MIS implementation. We felt this would help in implementing the chosen system and ensure that we design our own best practices, rather than the system dictating them."