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Year: 2021

The Executive guide to ERP: Part 1

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When it comes to an ERP project, many business executives, even some CIOs, delegate their responsibilities for running an ERP project to the ERP solution implementer. They do this because this is an area they have little or no experience of, and no education about. What they need is an executive guide to ERP, and … Read more

The Cloud for Manufacturers and Distributors

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As a decision-maker in a manufacturing or distribution-oriented company, you no doubt have seen or heard discussions about cloud computing. You may have been considering it but don’t have enough information to feel confident to move ahead with the idea. Your IT systems and infrastructure are working, although changes were made to accommodate remote work. And yet people are saying they need to be changed.

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Manufacturers’ IT Ambitions, and How SYSPRO’s ISV Extended Solutions Can Help Sharpen ERP Systems

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Reading Time: 4 minutes What do manufacturers and distributors want from their ERP system? The answers, according to a recent survey to our customers, include warehouse management, automation, and business intelligence. Warehouse management The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken and challenged many parts of the business, including supply chains. Many manufacturing organizations are shortening their supply chain to make them simpler … Read more

How the Food and Beverage Industry can Transform Itself for the 21st Century

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Since the first quarter of 2020, there have been more black swan events than could ever have been expected. First, of course, was the Coronavirus pandemic, then the Texas winter storm, and finally, a ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days. For the food industry, these have all created major disruptions.

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Leave Nothing to Chance: Reducing Risks Within Your Organization

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s business environment brings challenges beyond the traditional line of simple operational, financial and IT risks. Product recalls, compliance violations, and missed deliveries have the potential to cause long-term damage to the reputations of manufacturers and distributors. Failure to deliver can destroy not just your public brand, but your entire company. COOs and operations directors … Read more

What is ERP? – Before the Project Starts

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You are a senior executive in a company that is going to implement an ERP for the first time. You don’t have experience with this kind of project. So what should you be planning and doing, when, and who will be involved?

In our series on What is ERP, in Part 1 I explained what ERP is and why it has become such a significant part of most organizations. Here in Part 2, I will be looking at what company executives should be considering Before they start implementing an ERP system.

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Trust and Moving to the Cloud

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The Coronavirus pandemic caused people to take notice of what technology could do. The IDC has reported that over 65% of companies have accelerated digital initiatives. Recently, surveys have indicated that companies are optimistic about growth in 2021 and going forward. But as businesses navigate the new post-COVID world and assess opportunities for growth, many are having to evaluate technologies that are relatively new to them – that includes cloud computing.

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Building a Case for Industry 4.0

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It was Robert Shiller, a Yale University Professor of Economics and Nobel laureate who famously said “You cannot wait until a house burns down to buy fire insurance on it. We cannot wait until there are massive dislocations in our society to prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” This quote has been particularly pertinent over … Read more

Managing Your ERP Vendor’s Software Partnerships

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In 1969, the largest computer company in the world at that time, IBM, decided to unbundle its software from its hardware. This opened up the world to a new business – the independent software vendor – and led to partnering between different vendors. By the 1990s, many IT companies were establishing formal partner or alliances teams to ensure that the partnerships they entered into were successful and delivered value to the business and to customers.

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