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Can ERP Streamline the Complex Manufacturing Process?

Best Practices Webinar: Can ERP Streamline the Complex Manufacturing Process?

In complex manufacturing, it is necessary to manage complex projects and long product lifecycles, all while managing increased market pressure for shorter time to market for new products and stricter regulatory compliance oversight.

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Why Assess Business Process Maturity?

As independent ERP consultants, we’re often asked about the right time to select a new ERP solution and inevitably the conversation leads to business process maturity.

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5 Steps to Justify Your Investment in ERP

When looking for a new ERP system, your organization must begin your journey by making a business case for ERP. This involves numerous steps, including determining an expected return on investment, anticipating total costs, and fully documenting the business case for investing in a new or upgraded system.

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Tracking the Metrics that Matter

Manufacturers and distributors work to improve performance against benchmarks such as cost, time-to-market, product quality, and inventory optimization. But does your team have access to the metrics that capture these critical processes?

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What are the Most Common Challenges with ERP Implementations?

We hear from many manufacturing and distribution teams facing challenges with ERP implementations.

Based on Ultra’s depth and breadth of experience with enterprise technology projects, we know what a failed project looks like and we know how to avoid it.

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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