Both are capital-intensive, with long product development times, intricate supply chains and complex manufacturing processes.
It's not an easy task — complex manufacturing needs already shrink the pool of potential locations.
ERP is used to control complex manufacturing, run corporate functions like financials, or manage a company's systems of supply.
Chief executives run large and complex manufacturing and IT companies, and local governments, Head teachers run schools and football teams have managers, and so forth.
The education system, meanwhile, has produced too few skilled and semiskilled workers for Vietnam to move up quickly into more complex manufacturing industries.
He said that many complex manufacturing problems would have to be solved before a phone could be created on a single chip.
Today, that flicker can crash the computers upon which the country depends for most everything from control of complex manufacturing processes to the downloading of middle-school homework.
She said she thought it mostly applied to someone who needed to raise money — she's self-financing — or who was setting up a more complex manufacturing business.
He had mastered Detroit's discovery: the enormous power of using precisely tooled, interchangeable parts to break down complex manufacturing into far simpler steps.
Managing director Andrew Moses explained: "A big company can implement the payroll, HR, payments and ledger applications of SAP on a broad general business basis, but might struggle to come up with a solution for a complex manufacturing plant.
So too is Mr. Whitacre's competence in managing a complex manufacturing business -- something Alan Mulally of Ford and Sergio Marchionne of Chrysler, also chief executive of Fiat, had proved before heading to Detroit.
