Wierd Uses of Visual Enterprises

These are a few of the wierdest uses for Visual Enterprise that I have helped to implement.

• I assisted a company that manufactured the underpinnings of highway bridges.  The most unnerving thing that I took away from this implementation was the fact that bridges are sold by the pound.  I have never driven across one in the same frame of mind since!

• I worked with a company that created training programs for large companies.  Visual Enterprise was used in a project management and costing mode.  They had previously used another manufacturing software package for the same purpose and so Visual felt normal and comfortable.

• One of the first companies that I worked with had a serious planning problem.  They owned a patented technology that needed to be manufactured in Asia, close to their customers. 
  
  They purchased custom manufactured materials from a supplier in middle-America. Under normal circumstances these materials were shipped via rail to the west coast where they were loaded on a ship bound for Asia.  Once in Asia, they would be processed and sent to the customer.  However, when they misjudged requirements, materials would have to be air-freighted to Asia.
  
  They purchased Visual to plan materials and avoid air freight charges.