As manufacturing technologies and methodologies have evolved, so too have customer demands, creating a highly competitive business climate where the company most able to respond to customer demands with speed and accuracy prevails. But with the complexities of disparate plants, data sources, and processes, how can manufacturing organizations best rise to these heightened expectations?

In this Research Spotlight, LNS Research discusses the top challenges manufacturing organizations are facing today in responding to customer demands, and how leading companies are achieving significant operational improvement in agility through adoption of standardized processes, cross-functional departmental collaboration, and supporting Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software applications.