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In its 2023 Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises, Gartner observes that organisations with a product-centric focus are adopting cloud ERP applications that offer superior process automation and analytical capabilities. It is recommended that those responsible for selecting applications should use this Magic Quadrant to evaluate cloud ERP vendors as part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Bayer, the giant German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company has selected Infor EAM. This will be a blow to SAP, whose ERP Bayer use and Indus, whose EAM software is used at least at one other Bayer site. Once the deployment is successful, Bayer will look to roll out the Infor solution to other sites.  Frontstep, a Channel partner of Infor, has more than 20 y ...

All companies want to experience an ROI on their assets and equipment.  In the realm of fleet management, this is especially true regarding trailers. Purchase price, operating cost, and generation of income are all things to consider. Now, the first point, purchase price must be aligned with what the actual trailer is going to haul—that is what is going to determine if there is ...

According to Gartner, “By 2025, the top four ERP vendors will rebrand themselves as business platform providers.” And, “By 2022, 30% of large enterprises will have moved to a platform- and product-centric approach with standardized ERP capabilities at the platform core.” The trend is clear. The market for ERP platforms and suites for product-centric enterprises is shifting fro ...

Industry 4.0—The Fourth Industrial Revolution—smart technology and factories. Those concepts are probably all pretty familiar. But what about Maintenance 4.0? The story of Industry 4.0 is all about the evolution of manufacturing. Over the past 250 years, manufacturing has traveled the road from mechanization through steam and water power (Industry 1.0) to the use of electricity ...