DIAS
Pollack: “DIAS was developed by the data processing organization (MIS). Everybody signed up. For the first time, management provided the resources to maintain a common system. We could assign different groups responsibility for maintaining various parts of the system.
Then managers realized that
their IS department could be eliminated. They became nervous and claimed that their departments had to be preserved because they had become too specialized.
In production control and materials management planning you need to have the corporate entity in mind -- not just engineering or accounting or assembly or manufacturing.”