When you avoid committing any of The 7 Deadly Sins of ERP Implementation, your project team can laser-focus on business process improvement. At the most basic level, the primary function of an ERP solution is to help your organization efficiently and effectively execute core business processes.
A product recall is one of those events that every manufacturer dreads. Just the words alone convey lost production time, innumerable calls with suppliers and customers, and other activities that take you away from your core business.
Most organizations start ERP selection with a list of the big names in the ERP software marketplace, research features, functionalities and total cost of ownership, and then schedule multiple rounds of sales presentations and demos.
Seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the food & beverage industry is different than it was at the beginning of 2020.
The IT department and the C-suite do not own (and may never interact with) your core business processes. So the project team should include key people—end users and functional managers—from across your organization who are regularly involved in those processes.
The turmoil created by 2020 has been unprecedented for manufacturers. Even in normal times, right-sizing inventory and managing your manufacturing operations and a complex distribution supply chain are some of the most challenging parts of an enterprise.