Business process improvement (BPI) is an approach used to identify inefficiencies, and analyze, redesign and improve existing business processes to optimize performance, enhance workflows, conform to best practices and improve the user experience.
Enterprise resource planning software links most of today’s business management systems, and thus ERP software implementation is a necessary part of today’s digital transformation for manufacturing and distribution companies. To remain competitive and relevant in a fast-paced, globally competitive economy, senior executives know that an ERP system implementation with new technologies is unavoidable.
Acquiring complicated ERP software and enterprise solutions is, for lack of a better word, complicated. And negotiating the best-possible deal is difficult – and not something organizations do often. Most companies end up paying more than they should – for years. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The end of the year is the perfect time to look back and see what was successful (and what was not). And at Ultra Consultants, we like to use this opportunity to evaluate our interaction with customers, potential customers and the manufacturing and distribution industries via our ERP-focused blog. Here, based on the number of page visits are our 10 most-read blogs for 2021. Check out these informative articles featuring the knowledge and insight of our expert consultants.
We asked Ultra’s Shannon Harrop and QAD’s Maureen Hunt about these practices, and in this six-minute video from our recent webinar, “Benefit or Blunder, Fast-Tracking ERP Sofware Selection,” they offer their insight – and the pros and cons.
We blog regularly about the benefits an organization can derive from Business Improvement processes (BPI) and the initial steps required to set up the project for success. The steps of a BPI we have covered so far include the following:
