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.
6 Challenges Manufacturers Can Solve With an ERP System You might need an ERP system if you are currently wasting time with manual data entry or you see inaccuracies in reporting because they are not happening in real time. Take a look at the common challenges and concerns manufacturers without an ERP system face.
It may not be simply a rhetorical question or thought exercise as to if robots will be capable to do many human jobs by 2050. Cost saving measures are typically cited as a major reason for implementing automation. Robotics could save Amazon more than $900 million a year, according to the Wall Street Journal article: …
Leadership Skills CFOs need for a Successful ERP Project CFOs can have a major role in the success of an ERP implementation. I gained valuable experience during my first Epicor ERP implementation at a former company. As CFO, I was the project manager. Other CFOs may play more of an executive sponsorship role. Whatever the …
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What Manufacturing Executives Can Learn from the Healthcare Rollout As a company, which specializes in software deployments, we have been paying close attention to the roll-out of the new healthcare site. The mishaps that have mired the website are an all too frequent and often preventable occurrence. Looking at this situation, I have seen similar …
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Outgrown Quickbooks and Need an ERP System? If your organization is reaching a point where the business is outgrowing Quickbooks, that means your organization is growing; and likely in the need a of a more comprehensive enterprise solution. First of all, you may have asked the question “do I need an ERP System?”. In some …
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The Global Edge, Manufacturing as a Strategic Partnership? Can global manufacturing create more strategic partnerships? Recent reports are citing the surge in American Manufacturing. And with these reports will be the need to evaluate partnerships and global positioning. The Boston Consulting Group recently published a report about the boom of export manufacturing in the United …
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Manufacturers Deserve ROI on Enterprise Software Systems What is the ROI a manufacturing firm can expect to see on a big software implementation? Gantry Group, a strategic advisory and custom market intelligence firm, conducted a research study to find that out. In it, they took a look at the Total Cost of Ownership and ROI. …
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ERP Implementation Completed on Time and On Budget? I read an article on Proformative called ERP Implementation Failure Cost Me My Job- Here is What I learned. After the initial shocker of this headline I had to read more. Basically, the author, who opted to stay anonymous wrote the post as a benefit to …
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Inside ERP, an industry leader in research provided a great top ten checklist when a company is looking to choose and ERP system. As a software system, ERP is costly, time-intensive to implement and requires proper planning before deciding to jump into the software selection process.
Integrate Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce CRM with my ERP? Should your business integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Salesforce with your ERP will allow you to quickly and affordably sync customer and business data between both systems. “CRM by itself is just a tool. Marrying it with ERP data makes it valuable.” David Peterson, Enterprise Collaboration Manager …
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM ’13 gets a face-lift “Companies looking for a cloud-based CRM solution that is built for modern business needs, is simple to use and easy to adopt, will need look no further,” said Bob Stutz, Corporate Vice President Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft’s new edition of Dynamics CRM has a newly designed user interface. The …
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3 Reasons to Integrate CRM and ERP Software Integrating CRM (Customer Relations Software) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Software can seem like a daunting task. Perhaps the two systems should remain separate if extensive software development is needed. Fortunately, this concern is one that we have addresses numerous times during our ERP software implementations. On …
Remembering what you learned from ERP training is a continual struggle. The best fix focuses on what you can do to improve the usability of your ERP system.
ERP Installation As Easy As Installing a Mobile App We are living in such an app-friendly world. Popular mobile apps such as Skype, Twitter and Adobe Flash Reader are so easy to download and install. What does this have to do with an ERP system? An ERP system, when configured correctly, is a wonderful cost …
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Sure, you might be nostalgic for the ‘90s or early 2000’s, but your employees and bottom line will thank you for being innovative. Groupthink is why technology isn’t updated, why policies are outdated, why there’s no new blood (or ideas) on a team, why you hear the sentence ‘you can’t do that, that’s not how we’ve always done it!’
