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Steve Phillips is an IT professional and author with 25 years of implementation experience in industry and as a Big 5 consultant and is APICS certified. |
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Michael Doane has 35 years enterprise systems experience. He is the author of The New SAP Blue Book, a Concise Business Guide to the World of SAP and The SAP Green Book. |
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Break through your growth ceiling with ERP. (Part 4)Here are some additional factors to keep in mind before finalizing and ERP selection process. Implementation expertise – who’s looking after your business? Large implementations can sometimes fall into a bad situation in which a few experienced and expensive team leaders manage a large group of significantly less experienced junior staff – who are mysteriously not much less expensive. Use... |
Is Your ERP System Recall Ready? (Part 1)Whether you are a food and beverage, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, chemical or medical device company, you’ve spent a lot of money trying to get your product into the market in the hopes that, whatever the product may be, the public will buy it. Now what happens when you have to pull it back? ERP SoftwareIs Your ERP System Recall Ready?... |
Break through your growth ceiling with ERP. (Part 5)Here is the last set of considerations to explore before making an ERP selection. Technology – what do you really need? There is no doubt technology can streamline your business processes, help retain customers and improve profitability. But technology for its own sake is a waste of money. Vendors use a range of tricks to hide unnecessary, unproductive product features... |
Break through your growth ceiling with ERP. (Part 2)No single ERP solution is right for all companies and there is no guarantee of success. But in selecting an ERP system that’s right for your business, there are common questions you can consider, as listed below. In the remaining four parts of this series, we’ll explore each of these and, hopefully, paint a road map to your future growth... |
Break through your growth ceiling with ERP. (Part 1)Acquiring an ERP system is a little like puberty: At some point in your growth cycle it’s going to become inevitable. If you want o continue to grow and mature as a company, the sooner you embrace it, the better. Most successful small and medium-sized businesses reach a point when they must make hard decisions if they want to continue... |
Break through your growth ceiling with ERP. (Part 3)Here are some of the additional factors to explore before making an ERP selection. Single source – is this a properly integrated solution? Ideally, one vendor should handle the entire solution. It’s important the vendor has a proven track record and that ERP is a core part of what it does. Many small-business ERP systems are presented as ‘integrated’, but... |
Activities in Different Industrial Sectors - Manufacturing SoftwareRunning Governmental Operations and Related Business Activities in Conjunction with Manufacturing and/or Distribution Processes through Highly Efficient ERP Manufacturing Software Solutions which are Engineered ‘For Speed’ and have Multiple Applications that can be Employed for Multiple Market Purposes or for Activities in Different Industrial Sectors (Part II) – Lessening the Burden of Bureaucracy through the Implementation and Global Deployment of... |
What is ERP ?
What is ERP? What does (enterprise resource planning) ERP mean? In a very simple explanation it means a single software system that can administer your entire business, from accounting to manufacturing, with just one piece of software. It is a software system that is designed to manage every area of your business. Review the software database on the menu bar to view ERP software solutions.
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