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May 2021
Improve Shop Floor Efficiency with ERP
As manufacturing, processing, and assembly industries return to pre-pandemic operations, factories, workshops, and plant owners look for opportunities to recoup losses generated in 2020 by mandatory facility shutdowns. While many industries were able to successfully transition to remote operations, it isn't easy operating machinery and processing raw material over Zoom.
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May 2021
Signs It's Time to Upgrade Your Financial Reporting
Today, analyzing data is foundational to maintaining the success of a business. Accumulating information over time, generating reports, and performing vital analytics is the cornerstone of measuring the status of a company, especially when effectively interpreting this information can be a critical factor that determines the difference between inadequate and strategic decision-making ability.
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May 2021
How Your Software Solution Improves Warehouse Efficiency
Software solutions for warehouse operations take the form of either ERP or WMS applications. Companies need to know the difference between these solutions, which serve fundamentally distinct purposes.
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Apr 2021
3 Reasons Why Your Projects Aren't Profitable
As with many business processes, things don't always go as planned, and projects can fail to meet outlined goals. The reasons for this can vary greatly, but below we'll take a brief look at some of the most common issues with project management that could be causing your projects to lose profitability.
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Apr 2021
ERP Reduces Manufacturing Costs While Increasing Capabilities
While 2020 was a challenging year for various industries, efforts to bring the economy back to pre-pandemic levels are finally gaining ground in many areas across the United States. Manufacturing was hit particularly hard by the onset of COVID-19, where mandatory facility shutdowns, global travel restrictions, and an inability to perform critical operations remotely significantly impacted business, often grinding manufacturing to a complete stop.
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Apr 2021
Key ERP Features for Innovative Distributors
Managing a wholesale distribution business with low operating margins has never been more challenging, as changes due to Covid-19 and economic slowdowns over the past year have seen smaller firms struggling to compete with larger distribution companies, like Amazon.
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Apr 2021
How Modern ERP Solutions Benefit Manufacturers
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted several major industries, requiring an increase in costs and lower operating margins that leave many businesses struggling to keep their heads above water. With staff reductions that inevitably followed, business management systems and processes have taken an expensive hit.
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Apr 2021
Why Cloud is the Future of ERP
The growth in many business processes results from the right technology implemented along the way and is undoubtedly the case with ERP. What company wouldn't want to be more efficient, more organized, secure, and profitable?
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Mar 2021
8 Reasons Why 2021 Should Be the Year You Move to the Cloud
The transition from onsite operations to remote models after the COVID-19 pandemic saw many businesses benefitting from cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. After the 2020 disruption, it makes sense why the technology experts at Forbes call the cloud "crucial to the future of our societies."
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Mar 2021
Remote Work and Cybersecurity
The sudden rush to get employees set up to work from home also uncovered wide data security and privacy gaps from drastic, haphazard, unsecured adoption of remote collaboration tools like Zoom, Hangouts, and others.
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Mar 2021
Cybersecurity & ERP
Attackers targeting your business management solutions, ERP solutions, and collaboration tools have the same goals as they always have: they want sensitive information.
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Mar 2021
ERP Trends We'll See More of in 2021
ERP has seen meaningful growth and sophisticated advancements in recent years, especially given the new obstacles we face. Looking back to 2020, companies all over the world began getting used to long-term remote working environments, creating the need for breakthrough technologies to be developed quickly so business applications could fill the gaps.
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Feb 2021
4 Ways to Improving your Financial Close Process this Year
If you have the ability to see how you performed only once a financial close is complete, then your next opportunity to see your performance comes a month later when you go through the financial close process again. This is an indication that your close process is more than outdated, it's also confining.