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?
5 Reasons Manufacturers and Distributors Should Consider Cloud ERP Solutions
Today’s IT departments increasingly leverage the cloud to deliver applications and services throughout the organization, as well as to customers and partners. In fact, last year Gartner reported that 40% of organizations in North America plan to spend the majority of new or additional funding on cloud technologies.
Top 5 Reasons to Move from On-Prem to the Cloud
The Ultra ERP Blog keeps pace with enterprise software market activity – especially as it relates to ERP selection and enterprise software implementation.
Greater Efficiency Requires Organizational Change: Case Study
Pacific Plumbing Supply is a 71-year-old, family-owned and operated company, with 14 branch locations and 200 employees. We weren’t looking to spend the kind of money it would take to implement a modern ERP solution,” Stafford continued, “but we understood that the ROI is in new capabilities and new tools we can use to operate more efficiently.”
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
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 Consumer Packaged Goods 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
