
Food & Beverage Organizations: How to Function Fearlessly
If the past year has taught food & beverage executives anything, it’s the value of being able to quickly adapt to changing business conditions.

If the past year has taught food & beverage executives anything, it’s the value of being able to quickly adapt to changing business conditions.

My previous blog post entitled Getting Started with Master Data Management and ERP looked at key definitions as related to ERP and Master Data Management.

What is ERP health and why is it important to assess the health of your ERP system? Because the results reveal the capabilities and strength of the technology you lean on to manage your core processes and drive the performance of your business.

When Ultra Consultants CEO Jeff Carr spoke at the Vision33 Customer Event in late 2020, his presentation – “Tech Outlook for the New Normal” – covered a broad list of topics, including how manufacturers are coping with today’s business challenges and how Industry 4.0 technologies offer mid-sized organizations huge benefits.

ERP project success follows from a structured, purposeful approach aimed to help transition people, teams, and organizations from their current state to the desired future state. Included in this ERP methodology based on Ultra’s successful projects, here are change management and ERP lessons learned.

The Ultra team is often called into a client engagement when a private equity (PE) investor acquires a manufacturing enterprise — whether in automotive, heavy duty, aerospace, food processing or other sectors. During an acquisition process, issues with legacy or outdated ERP systems come to the forefront, since PE firms usually seek to have centralized ERP, including performance data, reporting and IT.