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Join Ultra Consultants starting Tuesday, August 8 through Friday, August 11 for a series of informative webcast presentations that will prove indispensable to your enterprise selection project. See today’s top ERP vendors Epicor, IQMS, JD Edwards and Kenandy present online demonstrations of how their systems meet the needs of discrete Read More
When it comes to ERP selection challenges, manufacturing and distribution organizations often find that navigating through the many available solutions can be an obstacle in today’s industrial environment. Enterprises saddled with legacy, outdated ERP systems often don’t know where to begin when it comes to an ERP selection project. Worries over Read More
A U.S. make-to-order specialty metal packaging and lithography company, Independent Can Company, faced challenges from a poorly functioning legacy ERP system tied together with software bolt-ons and Excel spreadsheets. Given a 12-week deadline from contract signing to production start-up at a newly acquired location, Ultra Consultants identified Read More
As Cloud ERP vendors gain momentum in the manufacturing and distribution industries, ERP selection teams continue to give serious consideration to the technology platform. For today’s project teams, since adoption and ERP implementation are more widespread, Cloud ERP considerations are very much on the minds of today's small to medium Read More
For a manufacturing company looking to upgrade or replace their enterprise software system, it’s wise to put the focus on ERP implementation strategies that result in full utilization of the new system’s functionality and benefits. Our team finds that a phased approach to enterprise software implementation speeds the rate of adoption, and gets Read More
For any type of business process improvement project, but especially ERP engagements, your project communication plan is the common thread to both project successes and failures. One out of every five projects fail due to ineffective communication, even if you took the time to create the best project communication plan. The importance of Read More
Ultra recently signed a project with an industrial supplier located on the East Coast. A few weeks ago, we were on site conducting our customary executive interviews and visioning sessions, whose content is directly used for launching the business case for change. Determining the Need for Change One of the first steps in beginning an ERP project Read More
One of the simple but critical questions we commonly hear from manufacturing and distribution organizations is "Is investing in ERP worth it?" In a recent webinar, we covered eight steps to take in preparing your organization for an ERP project and overall ERP readiness. Among other questions and concerns covered in that webinar – such as the Read More
Recently, Ultra Consultants has been working with a precision machining company on starting an ERP selection project. One of the first stages in the selection process is always the “ERP discovery” stage, where we assess the business needs of the client and the key motivations to start such a strategically important project. Here are a few critical Read More
We’ve covered a good bit of ground in our blog series on Business Improvements. We discussed documenting the Current State of the business processes, identifying process improvements and how these items affect the resulting Future State. Next, we explored the need to identify in detail the types of financial savings that will accrue to the Read More
In our previous blog covering the business process improvements, we covered the need to document the business case. Why did we ever decide to take on this monumental task with so much risk? This thought usually occurs several months into the project and can be debilitating to a project team. It is important to take time to define the details both Read More
You may be looking at upgrading your existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and you no doubt have an ongoing Continuous Improvement (CI) Program. How can you maintain your CI program while addressing your ERP needs at the same time? This issue and effectively realizing the benefits of business process improvement are challenges faced Read More
