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2016 September

  • Farm to Fork, the Solutions Requirements Model for Food & Beverage Manufacturing (The “Slider Model”)

    • September 29, 2016
    • Posted by: Tom Ryan
    • Category: Thought Leadership
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    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
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    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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  • Challenges Cost Justifying ERP in F&B

    • September 29, 2016
    • Posted by: Tom Ryan
    • Category: Thought Leadership
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    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
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    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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  • Ready, Fire, Aim: 10 Worst Ways to Pick a New ERP

    • September 29, 2016
    • Posted by: Tom Ryan
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    There are many wrong ways to pick a new ERP system for your enterprise.  This is a 10-15 year investment and is, in effect, a heart/lung transplant.  These 10 ways, trivial and superficial as they are, are all ways that some companies have made this critical decision for their companies.

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