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10 Best Reasons, NOT! – To Change Your ERP
- November 7, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
No CommentsThere are a lot of good reasons to change your enterprise systems, ERP. However, here are some common reasons that are NOT a good reason to change your ERP solution.
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The Solution Provider Ecosystem for Food & Beverage Enterprises
- October 18, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Vendor Profiles
For many Food & Beverage Enterprises, technology solutions are not all just about ERP. In addition to the core roles played by ERP solutions, many other areas often are necessary to provide full support for the broad range of requirements that many F&B companies now face. This focus has led us to develop a different view of the solution providers from the traditional analyst view.
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The Solution Provider Ecosystem for Discrete Manufacturing Enterprises
- October 18, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Vendor Profiles
For many Discrete Manufacturing Enterprises, technology solutions are not all just about ERP. In addition to the core roles played by ERP solutions, many other areas often are necessary to provide full support for the broad range of requirements that many discrete manufacturing companies now face. This focus has led us to develop a different view of the solution providers from the traditional analyst view.
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ERP Selection, Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog
- October 17, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
If you are a grower processor looking for ERP you have already encountered the challenge of attempting to locate one fully integrated ERP system that fulfills all of your requirements; one that contains all the modules you need to run your business as a grower processor. This article discusses these challenges and introduces a process to help find the appropriate solution(s) and mentions several vendors that may be a part of that solution.
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PLM Ecosystem for F&B – Why these vendors?
- October 12, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Vendor Profiles
We stated in our article the Solution Ecosystem for Food and Beverage Enterprises that for many F&B enterprises technology solutions are not all just about ERP (enterprise resource planning). In this article we are focusing on the Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions and the vendors that are providing this capability for F&B enterprises.
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Boom! – PLM Solutions Experiencing Explosive Growth
- October 12, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions have been thrust into the front of F&B company minds because of the impacts of and heightened awareness of food safety issues caused by the Food Safety Act and increased demands for rapid product innovation. This paper talks about this explosive growth.
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Smart Software Selection Consulting Decision
- October 12, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
Smart companies are discerning. They save money and use external consultants only when it makes business sense. And the smartest firms are exceptionally savvy in choosing the best consultants for a given assignment.
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Enterprise Resource Management
- October 3, 2016
- Posted by: Dennis McDougall
- Category: Videos
Presentation by Gary Burns to the Wiring Harness Manufacturer’s Association 27 April 2016 discussing the state of ERP software solutions today, what enterprises need to consider as they think about replacing or upgrading their enterprise systems, and the services and value a software selection consultant can lend to the process of replacing enterprise systems.
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Farm to Fork, the Solutions Requirements Model for Food & Beverage Manufacturing (The “Slider Model”)
- September 29, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
Food & Beverage Manufacturing is all about moving food from the farm through a manufacturing/distribution process to the fork at the dinner table. This article discusses the high level functional requirements needed to go from Farm to Fork and develops a model by which technology solutions can be compared.
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When is a SaaS or Cloud Solution Not Enough?
- September 29, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
I’ve been investigating lately the world of software as a service (SaaS). This has led me smack into the whole “everyone has their own definition” conundrum. It seems that most of what I’m encountering is a marketing wrapper touting the SaaS aspects of what is really a hosted solution. This has led me to examine what other SaaS models might exist.
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