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… towards discrete manufacturing, often leaving process industry manufacturing without a software solution designed for its specific requirements. One of the most common approaches is for software vendors to develop a discrete solution and then sell it into other manufacturing environments. It is a poor match to propose to executive decision-makers that their discrete solution can meet all their needs. This can and does go on for years. I have seen applications that were never designed to meet the process industry’s requirements be continually sold into process industry accounts, with the previous failures of the application in similar …

… the DS off of PPDS and making it PP-Best of Breed. This is the only thing that companies (who have anything but elementary scheduling needs) can do to recover their PP/DS implementation.
Who is Continually Recommending PPDS? For The Wrong Environments?
The usual suspects. I continually see large consulting firms like Deloitte, Accenture, and IBM recommends PP/DS for environments for which it is inappropriate.
Part of the reason is that many software selections are performed by the strategy groups in these consulting firms that have never touched the recommended systems.
Secondly, large consulting firms can bill the …