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Digital Manufacturing: Differentiate through Customer Communication

Today’s manufacturers are faced with a competitive environment that demands more innovative, unique, highly-configured products and services designed to fit customers’ specific needs. One aspect of Digital Manufacturing is providing real-time visibility into customer relationships and streamlined communication.

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Industry 4.0: What’s the Impact on Manufacturing & Distribution?

Industry 4.0, as the name implies, is widely considered the 4th industrial revolution. It’s the culmination of automation, big data, integrated systems, and the connected enterprise.

With each of these areas maturing in their own right, it’s where they all collide that makes this 4th revolution so exciting.

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Use MES to Grow and Stabilize Your Business

MES and ERP – a powerful combination.

View this on demand webinar session for manufacturers looking at how to thrive today and into the future with modern enterprise technology. The in-depth presentation will help teams understand how Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) can drive the digital transformation of your business in ways not otherwise possible.

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Modern Approach to Manage Project-Based Manufacturing

For project-based manufacturers including Defense contractors and discrete manufacturers, companies of all sizes are challenged by quality control, cost accounting, and compliance. In an effort to address these challenges, manufacturers intend to integrate manufacturing with other business functions such as finance or enterprise resource planning.

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Blockchain & ERP – What’s the Impact on Manufacturing & Distribution

We’re hearing a lot about blockchain. But how will it impact the manufacturing and distribution sectors, and their extended enterprise?

Blockchain can be described as a “decentralized, open-source ledger that enables all parties to reach a consensus in a system without a central authority” and offers organizations the potential to support traceability, records management, supply chain automation, payment applications and many other transactions.

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

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