As a business leader, you seek the most sustained value from your enterprise software. Whether you’re in the process of selecting, implementing or improving your systems, we’re looking at the trends and issues that help you get the most out of your business.
Integrating CRM and ERP: Crucial Sync Points In our infographic published last week, Enterprise Integration: 8 Crucial Considerations, we noted that data sync directions and times were one of the most important factors to plan out before integrating CRM and ERP. However, what if you haven’t even figured out exactly where you’re going to be syncing …
Build A Better Process Collaboration Model You would be extremely hard-pressed to find a more prominent buzzword in the enterprise world right now than collaboration. Organizations all over the world are seeking to enhance their internal process collaboration model, and it’s no secret to software publishers who are rushing to keep up with their demands. …
CRM and ERP Integration: How It Can Help You Too complicated, too expensive, unnecessary: these might be excuses you keep giving for not integrating your company’s CRM and ERP software systems. In truth, these excuses do not hold up when you truly begin to understand the results you can achieve when you connect your …
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Leverage CRM For Manufacturing: 3 Tips As a manufacturing business, you may think that you don’t need CRM; whether you’re currently getting by on just an ERP system or (heaven forbid) mere Excel sheets. After all, CRM is for sales companies, and your focus needs to be on the quality of your product, right? However, …
Harnessing The Power of Real Time ERP Analytics For Real Business Growth As manufacturing shop floors become more sophisticated than ever, machines are hooked up to the Internet of Things, and the information available to ERP systems is expanding in leaps and bounds, it’s hard to deny the quickly growing power of ERP analytics. By …
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Using ERP for Lean Principles: 5 Ways to Make it Work In yesterday’s blog post, I fought back against the notion that employing ERP for lean principles in manufacturing was not a compatible situation. Now, on the surface this might seem true—lean is all about trending your business towards zero waste and you’ve no …
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So, you’re looking to implement a new enterprise system on your shop floor. You go to Google, you go to colleagues and wander around vendor websites for what seems like an eternity. 500 different options and phone calls with salespeople later, you’re no closer to figuring out which ERP system will give you the most …
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Benefits of ERP Implementation When most businesses look to begin implementing an ERP software system, they usually only have the big-picture benefits in mind—including increased productivity, maximized efficiency and greater data management. But what you might not know is that a properly planned and smoothly executed ERP software implementation can integrate your business and give …
Epicor Insights 2016: Get The Lowdown RSVP For Epicor Insights 2016!We’ll Be In Touch! As Epicor Insights 2016 approaches, we are getting more and more excited about all of the invaluable information that will be available to solution providers, clients, and all Epicor end-users at the event, being held at Mandalay Bay in Las …
The Questions You Need to Ask Every Epicor Consultant So, you’ve finally selected the ERP software you’re going to implement, where to host it, and convinced everyone else of the long list of benefits that that system will provide your company. It’s all smooth sailing after that, right? Probably not. As we’ve mentioned before on …
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Leverage ERP Inventory Management For Manufacturing Success Ask any manufacturer and they will tell you; Inventory management is a crucial part of their production strategy and one area that requires significant time and investment to really refine and get right. After all, a weak inventory strategy can cripple a company; excess product can become a …
Manufacturing In The Cloud As a manufacturing business, you are constantly focused on staying competitive; improving accuracy and streamlining your manufacturing processes to keep both customers and stakeholders happy. By basing your manufacturing in the cloud through online software systems like Plex or Epicor, your company can achieve these goals faster than ever. As businesses discover …
Think You Don’t Need CRM? Think Again. Time and time again confident sales people will passionately tell you that they, and their team, don’t need CRM software to track their clients, follow up and close their sales consistently. They might exclaim “I have a spreadsheet system that works!”or “I’ve never dropped a lead before!” …
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3 Ways To Tell If A Business Process Is Failing Those that watch ABC’s hit series Shark Tank have likely heard the show’s many famous and discerning entrepreneurs say over and over again, “There’s got to be a better way”. This refrain can also become a common phrase and expression of frustrations for the end-users tasked with enterprise …
Common CRM Strategy Pitfalls There are no one-size fits all CRM software systems on the market today—and that’s a good thing. Modern enterprises operate in such varying and unique ways that it would be unreasonable to expect a silver bullet CRM that could be mapped onto any business and instantly improve their sales processes. As …
