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.
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.
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?
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.
On Demand Webcast: The Dangers of Outdated ERP Systems
Ultra’s Founder and CEO Jeff Carr recently teamed with Manufacturing Business Technology magazine for a webinar entitled “ERP for manufacturing and distribution: Are You Blind to the Dangers of Outdated ERP Systems?”
Starting an ERP Project? Why do a Current State Assessment?
ERP project teams ready to embark on a new or upgraded enterprise technology project are often eager to jump immediately to vendor demos to see the latest and greatest in new tech.
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
