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Today’s Top ERP Software Solutions

The right ERP solution can deliver the capabilities you need to improve processes, find new efficiencies, enhance decision-making, increase velocity, reduce waste and, perhaps most important, ensure that your company can prosper despite any challenges that lie ahead. But what is the best ERP solution for your organization? Learn which ERPs are best suited to the food & beverage, industrial equipment manufacturing, fabricated metal products manufacturing and distribution industries.

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Smart Shortcuts? Strategies to Accelerate the ERP Software Selection Timeline (Video)

What strategies can be used to accelerate the ERP software selection timeline? Skipping the long list of vendors and going straight to the short list. Leveraging standard requirements lists. Using cross-functional teams to simplify requirements gathering. But will these shortcuts make it more difficult to choose right solution for your organization and processes? And will they potentially be a big mistake in the long term?

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Make the Right Choice: The 5 Primary Enterprise Software Selection Factors

Are you confident that your team can select the enterprise solution that is best-suited to your organization and industry? Is your company able to objectively evaluate the software options? Is your organization prepared to navigate the complex (and competitive) vendor landscape? Ensure that you consider all the key factors – and make the right choice – with this checklist and these important questions.

Avoid these common ERP Software selection mistakes

5 Big Mistakes to Avoid in ERP Software Selection (Video)

The ERP software you choose will affect the way you conduct business for years to come, and it will impact virtually every business function. It’s a significant investment, too. So it’s critical to find a solution suited to your industry and your company’s unique needs. Whether or not you manufacture industrial equipment, you’ll learn how to choose the right ERP solution for your organization in this excerpt from a recent webinar.

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5 Best Practices for ERP Vendor Selection

Whether your company is implementing an ERP system for the first time, or replacing a legacy implementation, it’s critically important to make the right
choice. What new capabilities do you need and want? What problems are you trying to solve? We asked our expert consultants to give us their thoughts on best practices in ERP selection, and this is what they told us.

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How to Select the Wrong ERP Solution

The ERP solution you choose will affect the way you conduct business for years to come. But many organizations get off-track right at the start when they go into the selection process believing in some common myths about the process – misconceptions that can result in the wrong solution for your business. Here are the top five misconceptions that derail the enterprise software selection process.

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Pacific Plumbing Supply Enables Future Success With Broad Change Now (Video)

Like many mid-sized distributors, Pacific Plumbing Supply Company chafed against the limitations of its legacy management platform and scraped by with a number of time-consuming manual workaround processes. Owners and managers knew it was well past time to implement a modern ERP solution and gain the advantages it would offer.

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Expert Q&A: Manufacturing Execution Systems

A manufacturing execution system (MES) offers different things to different manufacturers – and different things to manufacturers in different industries. To reduce the confusion, and to provide insight into the value of MES solutions in the IEM and industrial products verticals, we asked a longtime consultant to share his insight.

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7 IEM Pain Points (and How Modern ERP Offers Solutions)

With extraordinarily complex products, complicated production processes and unique management, financial, integration, quoting and planning challenges, industrial equipment manufacturers are looking at today’s advanced ERP solutions to ease their pains.

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What is the Role of an Independent ERP Consultant?

We find that most mid-market manufacturing and distribution organizations are challenged when selecting and implementing new ERP technologies. The reasons center on project scale, skills, resources and experience. Which is where an independent ERP consultant comes in. Expertise is valuable.

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