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.
This blog post continues the success story outlined in a recent blog post entitled “Steel Services Company Drives Improvements Through Technology Upgrades”
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.
As an ERP consulting firm, we often guide teams to work through enterprise system selection to improve key processes related to gaining visibility into the enterprise.
As an independent ERP consulting firm, we’re pleased to share the successes our clients achieve when driving business process improvement.
We’ve seen the many red flags that tell manufacturers and distributors it’s time to upgrade from an aging legacy ERP system, or that it’s time to examine processes with an eye toward a new solution.
In many cases, we hear teams discuss compelling business reasons for changing ERP systems, including improving the level of integration between their current ERP system and other mission-critical applications such as CRM, supply chain portals, quality, and other applications.
