Enterprise Resource Planning

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.

Purchasing and successfully implementing an ERP system is one of the costliest, labor intensive, stressful and business critical undertakings any business can embark upon. In this article we look at the importance of understanding the system, collaboration, budget control, resources, data migration, ongoing development and user adoption.

As a supply chain professional you need to have complete visibility of your complex supply chain operations to maintain control and alignment with the business strategy of your company.

The roadmap in addition to our statement of production also re-affirms our commitment to continue to invest in the product for at least the next five years.

We are already seeing the impact as customers make the transformation, and Microsoft is committed to delivering modern business solutions, built using the broad portfolio of Microsoft technology, with intentional simplicity as a core design element.

Gone are the days when the priorities of a few high-tech startups determined the pace of business technology development. Today, innovators come in all shapes and sizes, and they're all looking to maximize the return on their technology dollars by embracing more flexible and powerful solutions. In the year to come, these X trends will dominate the discussion and set the pace for global technology leadership.

As host to the largest Microsoft Dynamics customer base in North America, and the leading provider of Dynamics ERP in the cloud, Tribridge created this guide to help decision makers choose the right deployment model for their accounting and ERP solution, including key considerations and steps specific to cloud ERP.

Implementing ERP generally means selecting, installing, preparing and going live with a new computer system, or interfaced systems. In modern times, these have become so fully featured that it is often possible to use one fully integrated system to handle all back office systems.

Listen and watch what Jim Barnes, CEO of enVista, has to say and present on "Enterprise Integration" strategies for the Logistics and Supply Chain industries from his presentation at the 2013 Georgia Logistics Summit.

By combining their Microsoft Dynamics® ERP solutions with the latest business productivity infrastructure from Microsoft, companies can become “dynamic businesses” that use software to empower their people, simplify their processes, and connect more closely with their ecosystem of vendors and customers.

Having a cohesive information system to cover all business needs from financial controls and reporting, the management of our relationships with and sales to our customers, long range planning of capacity requirements and short range production scheduling, supply chain management, inventory management and cost controls is a worthy goal.

In this paper we’ll explore various ways manufacturers can leverage their supply chain as a strategic advantage. By applying lean concepts at the supply chain level, manufacturers can become more agile and improve service to their customers while simultaneously lowering costs from production to delivery—and enter the era of the Lean Supply Chain.

This white paper discusses sales forecasting from a supply chain perspective. It provides an overview of sales forecasting strategies and best practices to help distributors and manufacturers to better manage their internal and external supply chains, production and distribution plans, and available resources.

The top-performing S&OP companies are realizing these benefits and in the process gaining competitive advantage. This article details the traits of the top performers and gives a practical approach to help others enhance their own S&OP performance level.

Individuals who can offer solid experience in business consulting, analysis, and operations have abundant employment options - as will those who can effectively manage these unique teams.

The decision of whether to buy or build ERP software will require an honest assessment of the needs of your organization, and what it will take to meet those needs. Sometimes the nature of the software project dictates the necessary direction.

What trends will affect the next generation of supply chains? That’s a question more and more SCM professionals are asking themselves. The 10 trends offered here are validated with executive input from senior executives across different industries. By understanding, anticipating, and acting upon these trends, the author believes companies can greatly enhance the value of their supply chain operations.