The Importance of Cost Centers in Manufacturing

MES was born precisely to decouple from the over rigidity of MRP and ERP. Everything you need to know about your business is on the plant floor, he says. There's nothing you spend in a manufacturing operation that isn't designed to support operations,. It's still there to now in vertically integrated businesses where the link in the supply chain from here to here is kind of fuzzy. But in manufacturing, everything supports operations.