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Key Factors for ERP Business Case Success
- January 20, 2017
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
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7 Ways to Know Your Selection Consultant is Not Objective
- January 3, 2017
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
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10 Best Reasons, NOT! – To Change Your ERP
- November 7, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
There 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 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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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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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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Challenges Cost Justifying ERP in F&B
- September 29, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
We are often asked how do you cost justify ERP? What will be the payback? How will we measure it? Where can we get it? How do we convert it into dollars and cents? The reality is that justifying ERP in the F&B industry in the classical cost/benefit analysis with hard numbers is very difficult. There is often no quantifiable way to develop a credible IRR for a new ERP project.
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Business Process Re-engineering – Getting the Cart Before the Horse
- September 29, 2016
- Posted by: Tom Ryan
- Category: Thought Leadership
There are two, conflicting schools of thought about the interrelationship between business process reengineering and software selection. One school of thought says that process reengineering should be done first prior to executing a solution selection. The other school would have business process reengineering done in parallel to the software selection or during the implementation of the new software solution.
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