Enfotek A.S. General Manager Tuğrul Tamtürk talked about the added value that 'lean digitalization' brings to businesses as a new concept in ERP. "Quality comes first in lean digitalization," said Tamtürk, and continued: "Full compliance with customer needs is not complete compliance with customer requests. Sometimes customers may not be aware of their wishes. Here, the expert staff is very important. A team of analysts who have gained experience in this sector should identify the problems and apply the solution clearly. These processes make the product quality. If you ask another person to do the process analysis, another person to do the business development, another person to do the algorithm, and another person to do the installation, this will cause a split in the business process, create a disconnection in communication and disrupt the business process. Due to the lack of communication, the product becomes disconnected from the processes and is useless… What we call lean digitalization means that the personnel also go through these processes. In other words, there is human resources training in this process. Such a holistic approach.
How does lean digitization increase cost control?
Another issue is cost. First of all, since simplification is involved, we eliminate the need for employees to enter the same data in more than one environment. This means less workload and time savings. It enables the entire business process to be followed-up, from pricing to actual cost, with its fast comeback. I made a profit at this point, because it offers you transparency as if I made the right decision here. the raw material and production wastes of the process are seriously reduced, too. E.g; You will produce one hundred units. You say that I should buy 10 percent more goods, my loss can be this much. But if the waste is 3 percent, you increase the cost by 10 percent from the beginning and you pay as much money as the 7 percent difference. Maybe your profit is 7 percent and you are losing your profit from the beginning because of faulty tolerance planning. It is very important to be able to see this. Instant comparison is very important. It will not help to see this damage 3 months later.
How does lean digitization improve time management?
The third factor is time. Since there is fast data flow within the enterprise, planned and coordinated management is provided. Don't just think it as the planning department. Since the whole organization is aware of the product that comes to the company and the product that comes out, it is possible to quickly perceive the coming work, and quickly identify solutions and problems. It becomes a transparent organization and brings you fast decision processes. Repetitive work disappears. The principle of doing the job right, one time, comes to the fore. That is the nature of simplicity. Extra processes that do not add value are eliminated. This should be the main principle of a digitization. In addition, time becomes much more precise as it enables the company to plan its future and future, and manage with targets, by using process management automation, even more advanced estimation techniques, and artificial intelligence techniques. Time awareness of the business increases. Goals that go up to each employee become much more active. After all, with lean digitalization, there is the total cost of ownership of the system, license, consultancy, personnel, hardware and time costs. You invest with the expectation of an income, but will this gain return in 6 months or 1 year? The extension of this period means the extension of the profit period. Lean digitalization should not cover processes that take years. It should be activated in 2-3 months and price-cost analysis should be done at the end of 6 months. “