Distributors: How to Be Like Amazon (3 Steps)
At this point, business customers, like consumers, expect the Amazon experience: They want what they want ASAP. And they want the buying process to be frictionless.
12 Questions to Ask About Your Procure-to-Pay Processes
For today’s forward-looking distribution organizations, improving productivity is about improving core business processes. How mature are they? How efficient are they? How close are they to best practices?
ERP Conversation: ‘Hidden’ Manufacturing Capacity and Smart Technologies
Most manufacturers have a “hidden factory” that runs in parallel to their primary manufacturing plant. It’s the unused capacity caused by quality issues, process inefficiencies, rework, schedule loss, availability loss, and performance loss.
When “Green Screen” ERP Hinders Expansion, Modern ERP Opens New Doors
Incorporating hygienic design is critical for food safety – and for reducing the risk of lawsuits, recalls, replacement, fines and damage to reputation
How to Select the Right CRM for your Technology Stack
CRM has changed a lot since its heyday in the early 2000s. Back then, it was all about upselling customers on products. But today, CRM has evolved into more of a customer experience management solution that encompasses sales and marketing while tying back into ERP systems.
Is Your ERP Project on Hold? 6 Things to Do While You Wait
Many manufacturing and distribution organizations put an ERP project on hold for a variety of reasons.
4 Potential Solutions for the Manufacturing Labor Shortage
Skilled manufacturing jobs continue to go unfilled, despite the ongoing economic recovery from the pandemic downturn, strong job growth overall, rising wages across nearly every vertical and high unemployment in the service sector (and others). The result is production bottlenecks, reduced capacity, unfilled orders, low inventories and lost sales. What…
Global Consumer Goods Organization Improves Business Processes and Prepares for Growth
Global organizations, particularly those dealing in Consumer Goods, often struggle with piecemeal systems, which create inconsistent approaches to business processes and financials.
5 Guidelines for Evaluating ERP Systems for CPG Manufacturers
Today’s ERP systems for Consumer Products Manufacturers (CPG) must drive true transformation. In order to compete, consumer goods companies must keep pace with customer demand while managing margins and complying with ever-changing safety and environmental regulations
