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.
Examples of Lean Manufacturing ERP Support Businesses everywhere are harnessing the power of lean manufacturing methodologies. Once a primary approach to batch manufacturing and distribution, now a modern means of running a business of any size. Lean six sigma, a form of process excellence for businesses, encompasses the idea of lean ideologies and the elimination of …
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Epicor SSRS Report Setup and Overview As a leading Epicor consultant for the mid market, we’ve noticed that a lot of Epicor customers have recently reached out to us regarding Epicor SSRS reports. As with any new system, Epicor 10 has some great new innovations; however there are always new items that take a little …
Food ERP White Paper – Epicor For Food Businesses Introduction Download the free white paper Recent changes in food quality and contamination prevention mandates have changed the face of food manufacturing, supply chain, packaging, and distribution. New federal regulation—coupled with—demands from major retailers, are forcing food industry entities to streamline, revamp, and reform their product …
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Discrete Manufacturing Technology Trends 5 Emerging Discrete Manufacturing Technology Trends Discrete manufacturing technology is evolving at a rapid pace. The availability of powerful new ERP’s, the IoT, and other new cloud-based software is changing the dynamics behind many of the principles that have served as a foundation for discrete manufacturing for years. And, while change …
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How to Read Current ERP Implementation Stats and Data It won’t too many internet searches to determine that there is a lot of info out there regarding ERP implementation stats and data. One of the primary reasons is because so much of the data that’s available appears overwhelmingly negative. You can find yourself examining all the …
List of 16+ Solutions In Epicor Project |Epicor Consulting Company Solutions Reports With every Epicor consulting client we work with we create a final project sign-off that helps us ensure that all of our goals at the beginning of the project were met. We’ve noticed over time that this is something Epicor users groups have found …
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Why Connect Epicor With CRM? If you want data to help your business deliver more efficient processes and to improve how your business uses software you should strongly consider integrating your ERP with your CRM. Your business could save hundreds of hours a week, make processes more efficient, and create a single source of the truth. We …
Three Epicor ERP System Trends In 2015 There are several major topics on the minds of Epicor ERP system users that seem to keep popping up this year. Recently, Epicor conducted a global research project, surveying companies around the world on the effectiveness of their current ERP – regardless of if they were a current customer …
B2B CRM and ERP Trends Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is evolving faster than ever. Systems providers are creating new ways to meet the demands of new, prospective industries by leveraging additional services and capabilities further enhance popular out-of-the-box software. All of this is in the name of collecting and purposefully …
Asking the question, “Do we need CRM program”? Our founder, Bryan Sapot, tackles the most important questions that companies should evaluate when considering the jump. Implementing a CRM program is not a flippant task. Organizations carefully plan these implementations, and must have follow-throught and proper vision from the beginning to achieve the highly touted benefits of …
FDA mandate creates new challenges A new mandate from the FDA aims to standardize food safety and traceability methods. On July 25th, those involved with food supply chain management must be capable of conducting a full scale product recall from its entire supply chain in electronic format in less than 4 hours. With that date …
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Upgrade ERP or CRM Without Leaping Off A Bridge When your company embarks on the quest to upgrade ERP or CRM, something will likely inevitably throw the project off its intended goals; and could leave the internal stakeholders considering throwing themselves off something suspended high above water. OK, maybe it’s not quite that bad; however, A McKinsey …
Implementing a CRM or ERP or other enterprise system at a company – of any size – is an immense challenge and investment of manpower and money.
But without an investment in organizational commitment and the right mindset, the project could be doomed from the beginning, resulting in over-runs and low adoption of the new technology. And while project over-runs are the immediate pain, lack of adoption prevents you from capturing all the value of the new enterprise system for years to come.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. This week, Kyle looks at the Kotter 8-Step Process for Leading Change as a framework for realizing the value of your enterprise software investment.
Over the course of the week, Kyle Harsha had the opportunity to meet a variety of other Partners, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Users that all operate in the Microsoft universe. Through those meetings, a number of things stood out. Here are three that really made an impression.
Defining Business Processes for Your Organization (Part 1 of 2) When setting up the project plan for a software implementation, companies often seek to cut out business process modeling in the interest of saving time and effort. However, at Datix, this step is a non-negotiable part of our process, because we know there is …
