Business Assessment

1. What characterizes your organization's strategy for the next 18 months? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Survival; holding on, or maybe a bit more
• Cutting costs
• Increasing top line revenue
• Slight growth
• Increasing profitability

• Rapid growth using all means
• Growth through M&A
• Increasing market share
• Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

2. To what extent does your organization regard technology as critical to that strategy?
(Rate 1 to 5, 1 = minimal role for technology, 5 = technology plays a critical role): *This question is required.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

3. What are the challenges that stand in the way of growth? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Cash, access to credit, etc.
• Inability to change with market conditions
• Outdated IT systems
• Tired products or service offerings

• Chronically slow decision-making
• Slow time-to-market issues
• Inefficient infrastructure
• Poorly integrated systems

• Supply chain irregularities
• Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

4. Which of the following systems do you regard as most critical to your department's success? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

• Supply Chain Planning (SCP)
• Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES)
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
• Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

5. What Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business system does your organization use? *This question is required.

• Epicor
• Oracle Peoplesoft/JDE
• Microsoft Dynamics
• SAP
• Infor
• Lawson

• Oracle
• IFS
• Sage
• Not using ERP
• Other Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

6. What Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system does your organization use? *This question is required.

• Dassault ENOVIA
• SAP
• PTC-Windchill
• Siemens

• Oracle-Agile
• Not using PLM
• Other: Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

7. What Supply Chain Planning (SCP) system does your organization use? *This question is required.

• Epicor
• Oracle Peoplesoft/JDE
• Microsoft Dynamics
• SAP
• Infor
• Lawson

• Oracle
• JDA
• Logility
• Not using SCP
• Other: Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

8. What Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system does your organization use?

• Salesforce.com
• Oracle Siebel
• SalesLogix
• Oracle
• SAP

• Infor
• Amdocs
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Not using CRM
• Other: Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

9. What are the status of the following systems? *This question is required.

Space Cell	No plans to replace or upgrade	Plan to replace within 18 months	Rough plan to replace, but no time-frame	Plan to upgrade	Budgeted to replace within 12 months
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)	No plans to replace or upgrade	Plan to replace within 18 months	Rough plan to replace, but no time-frame	Plan to upgrade	Budgeted to replace within 12 months
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)	No plans to replace or upgrade	Plan to replace within 18 months	Rough plan to replace, but no time-frame	Plan to upgrade	Budgeted to replace within 12 months
Supply Chain Planning (SCP)	No plans to replace or upgrade	Plan to replace within 18 months	Rough plan to replace, but no time-frame	Plan to upgrade	Budgeted to replace within 12 months
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)	No plans to replace or upgrade	Plan to replace within 18 months	Rough plan to replace, but no time-frame	Plan to upgrade	Budgeted to replace within 12 months

10. Where can your current enterprise business systems do better? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Our data formats can be more consistent
• We lack good supply chain visibility
• We lack interoperability across systems
• Our systems are not global
• Need better access to financials

• We have a poor view of customer data
• Getting data across functional areas is too slow
• Our systems are not tailored to our industry
• Other: Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. What are your organization's budget trends for technology investment next year? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Declining budgets, cuts
• Modest budget growth
• Budgets can always open for right solution/plans
• No change, flat budgets
• Good budget growth expected

12. Which of the following represent areas of improvement you plan to address in the coming year? *This question is required.

• Managing inventory
• Improving manufacturing operations
• Improving customer responsiveness
• Improving sales and operations planning
• Improving collaboration with suppliers
• Other: Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

13. What are the top initiatives you plan to address this year? (Check all that apply): *This question is required.

• Reduce time to quote complex projects
• Better management of complex engineering to order processes
• Create more accurate project quotes
• Better manage projects to assure visibility and profitability

• More efficiently handle engineering changes
• Minimize equipment downtime with better planning
• Improve collaboration between sales, engineering and production
• Increase revenue by performing more services or growing spare parts business

14. Which of the following are the top three product development initiatives for your organization this year? *This question is required.

• Reduce product development costs
• Improve configuration and change management
• Shorten product development cycle time

• Improve collaboration with customers, design centers and partners
• Standardize product development processes
• Implement lean engineering methodology

Our sponsor eLogic Group and its partner Microsoft, offer simplified solutions for the lean manufacturing enterprise. These solutions can provide game-changing improvements in cycle times, error rates, and margin. Please let us know your preferred method of contact. *This question is required.

• Email
• Call
• I prefer you contact my scheduler: email Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.