Mankato, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/10/2014 -- Manufacturing organizations are challenged to continuously create a competitive advantage by reducing or eliminating costs. This goal requires a deeper understanding of cost concepts, cost issues, and cost drivers while applying analytical tools that produce results. Manufacturers’ Pain Points, a weekly newsletter, examined creating a competitive advantage in manufacturing featured in the November 7th issue. The weekly e-newsletter identifies manufacturing pain points that many industrial leaders are facing.

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The newsletter also explored how purchasing and supply management professionals must take cost/price analysis further for long-term cost-competitiveness; utilizing techniques for multi-firm process mapping, as well as activity-based costing between organizations are fundamental necessities. In the often reactive crisis mode, it is difficult to examine the approaches to compressing time, and therefore costs, creating ways for containing costs, and setting cost-containment goals with suppliers.

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About People Driven Performance
People Driven Performance (PDP) Solutions is a software development company providing an internal, innovative, and interactive communications system for manufacturing plant floor employees. Patented combination of software and touch-sensitive employee information kiosks bring vital and important information to the plant floor in a non-desk employee environment. PDP proves that Employee Engagement results in quantifiable productivity improvement.

The impacts of improved internal communications, via interactive design, delivers an employee-centric engagement system driving improved employee retention, best-practice lean productivity, and increased bottom-line profitability.

Unlike desktop solutions promising better engagement, The PDP solution (http://www.pdpsolutions.com) is uniquely suited to on-the-move plant floor production employees ensuring a simple and straightforward way to access key company metrics and other information. The result is full participation and understanding of the functions, status, and standing of the company. Employee communication ensures a personal responsibility for well-being of management and colleagues with whom they work each day.

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PDP Solutions
http://www.pdpsolutions.com
Louise Dickmeyer
President
PR@pdpsolutions.com
507-382-7756