Enterprise Resource Planning

Adds to Breadth of Certifications in Cross-Industry Interoperability Standards to Better Serve Global Customer Base.

Enterprise and departmental silos are reinforced by today’s ERP systems given the fragmented environment present across most supply networks.

To move forward, it is important for supply chain leaders to get clear on the definitions of supply chain visibility and to align IT and line-of-business leaders on a road map to close the gap.

Enterprise simulation planning (ESP) enables businesses to see how the supply chain will perform under future demand and potential alternate supply chain structures and policies to reduce the risk inherent in strategy changes and to encourage continuous supply chain improvement and innovation.

The supply chain best-of-breed vendors respond to SCCT needs from their position of business process functionality support strength, whether that is supply chain planning, response management, supply chain execution or fulfillment synchronization. The planning vendor will tend to extend and integrate supply and demand planning with supply chain execution flows, including order fulfillment, transportation, logistics and inventory movement.

In my role with Logility, I have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of companies and executive management teams around achieving their supply chain goals and prioritizing their initiatives.

Spreadsheet Risk is the Number One Threat to Supply Chain Excellence

It has been around long enough to be considered one of those “classic debates”: ERP warehouse management module or best-of-breed warehouse management system? One would think that by now this debate would have been settled. The facts and opinions have been examined for well over a decade, surely there must be a clear winner by now. If only it were that simple.

The Panorama Consulting Solutions 2014 ERP Report presents independent analysis of ERP implementation costs, durations and achievement of business benefits from both domestic and multinational organizations of varying sizes.

An Independent Comparison of SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics ERP Systems.

Uncover critical decision factors every supply chain professional must consider when comparing ERP warehouse management and best-of-breed WM functionality.

Study: Companies relying on ERP for supply chain visibility fall short of goals for the extended supply chain - misalignment between IT and business executives results in 50% gap in inter-enterprise visibility capabilities.

Learn how innovators such as Avnet and Radisys are able to respond to ever-changing customer demands quickly while keeping previous commitments; manage constraints to increase fulfillment; and raise overall profitability. Hear how creating confidence in your customer ultimately creates the foundation for a sustainable and profitable partnership for both you and your customers.

HP's Plans for Global Supply Chain Visibility - An In-Depth Discussion of HP's View of Their Future Supply Chain, and the Strategies and Technologies Needed to Support a Profitable and Customer-Centric Approach for Supply Chain Planning and Customer Fulfillment

JDA Software: Setting New Industry Standards for Performance, Flexibility and Interoperability while Lowering Total Cost of Ownership. Organizations are building the foundation to address complex, global business challenges and align common business goals.

Selecting the right firm that can meet your requirements can be challenging, however, consultants vary in their level and type of ERP expertise, experience, geographic coverage, size and vertical industry knowledge. Fortunately, there are some common criteria to consider when selecting your next ERP consulting firm.

Your company is growing with new subsidiaries, new acquisitions and new global markets. You need to run these new entities efficiently and get real-time visibility into their performance—but can you afford a year-long implementation and multimillion-dollar price tag to standardize global operations on your on-premise ERP system?

Consumer packaged goods, supply chain management, manufacturing and distribution companies all depend on a reliable infrastructure for IT operations — often across multiple data centers around the globe - resulting in large labor, time, effort, and capital costs.

Some companies may have made the supply chain an area of strategic focus (Walmart and Zara in retail; P&G and Unilever in consumer product goods; Apple in consumer electronics), but even the most successful of them are now under intense new pressure to cut costs further: to do more with even less.

Implementing an ERP system is not straightforward, but remembering some of these simple suggestions will help the project have a greater chance of success than ignoring them.