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ERP Best Practices for Engineer-to-Order and Complex Manufacturers

For many manufacturers, it is a challenge to create quotations given the amount of time and effort it takes to manage complex product configuration processes.

The issue is to increase the volume of quotes, streamline the process and manage the complexity of sales quoting, customer service and production processes.

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Your Roadmap to Operational Efficiencies

What’s the secret to driving operational efficiencies, especially in the face of volatile markets, strict customer requirements and increasing competition?

View an on demand webinar session which outlines the challenges manufacturing plants face including underutilized assets, maintenance downtime, material and labor shortages.

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Food Safety Compliance and ERP: How to Stay on the Safe Side

Food and beverage processors face significant disruptions with changing consumer demand, growing complexity in supply chains, and ever stringent food safety mandates.

Today’s food and beverage processor must implement the appropriate processes and systems that not only manage recalls, reporting and document control, but also offer the flexibility to respond to changing regulatory requirements.

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B2B eCommerce and Integrated ERP: Improve the Customer Experience

Business-to-business buyers now expect the same experience available to business-to-consumer buyers, favoring a “self-serve model” of fast, accurate online purchasing platforms instead of legacy models of past decades.

No longer do industrial buyers wish to interact with sales reps in person, on the phone or via e-mail. Nor do industrial buyers wish to pour over paper catalogs or other manually-intensive and time-consuming processes.

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Survey Says: 5 Questions About ERP Implementations

In “The Real Facts about ERP Implementations,” the research firm Mint Jutras surveyed hundreds of North American manufacturing and distribution companies to explore the myth of past ERP implementation success rate data which told a dismal story.

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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