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Scheduling in your ERP is a great goal I have been in the ERP world for close to 25 years, both as a consultant and salesperson. I have seen companies buy ERP for many reasons, but usually the driving factor has something to do with being able to use the system to schedule their shop floor. This is a fantastic goal. Not because shop floor scheduling with ERP sounds cool, but be ...

No matter how complex your organization is, a variety of agile implementation practices can speed transformations—and deliver game-changing returns. Choosing Infor as your partner for ERP implementation will enable you to: Deploy quickly and reliably, anywhere in the world Accelerate time to value and minimize risk Achieve a cost-effective, easily supported deployment Maximiz ...

Scheduling in your ERP is a great goal I have been in the ERP world for close to 25 years, both as a consultant and salesperson. I have seen companies buy ERP for many reasons, but usually the driving factor has something to do with being able to use the system to schedule their shop floor. This is a fantastic goal. Not because shop floor scheduling with ERP sounds cool, but be ...

As an asset-intensive organization, you make tremendous investments in the assets you rely on to operate your business day to day. And you want to make the most of your outlays to better meet service level agreements (SLAs), optimize your capital spending dollars, and minimize the business risks of asset failure. Achieving the most desirable outcomes requires you to have the ...

Yes, considering a two-tier ERP strategy is a little different than Dennis Hopper and Keanu Reeves taking us through the Hollywood-fabricated intensity regarding a bomb on a bus. However, we do have a brief quiz to help you decide if a two-tier ERP strategy would be helpful for your business. Here you go: Is your business a manufacturer, distributor, private equity firm, or ho ...

A Next-Gen ERP Solution Built for Productivity Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are getting yet another makeover. As manufacturing continues to evolve quite rapidly, the software systems behind it do, too. ERP solutions have provided enterprises with data management and end-to-end views for many years, although some of the earlier ERP solutions didn’t include flexib ...

It’s a moment of enormous opportunity, with Industry 4.0 transforming the way businesses collect, process, and deploy data, and Maintenance 4.0 applying those tools and techniques to revolutionize asset management. A strategic approach to Asset Performance Management (APM) helps you keep critical equipment and production lines up and running, using the mountains of operational ...

There are some young supply chain technologies that are getting a lot of buzz. But how mature are these technologies?  Do they have a proven ROI? Are they worth piloting? Or can companies safely ignore them? There are also promising technologies that we expect will deliver great value. But we can’t document the ROI or other benefits at this point. Finally, there are technologi ...

As an ERP buyer for manufacturing, you will come across several options with their claim to be suitable for any industry or situation. In reality, each ERP systems' design supports concrete business processes based on size and micro-vertical. Implementing an ERP outside its core expertise increases the risk and costs for you. In this article, we will learn how to weed out vanil ...

It ain’t easy Managing a shop floor is no easy task. Your employees make mistakes, equipment breaks, rush orders slip in, jobs ship late, and days are long. On top of that, there is the constant demand to reduce costs and increase quality. It’s a real pressure cooker. So why do people do it? For me, the things listed above were challenges that needed to be mastered and managed. ...