SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 3, 2023

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing can significantly improve productivity, reduce equipment failure, increase production efficiency and help identify new business opportunities. The area of AI that manufacturers need to explore to drive their factories into the future is machine learning (ML).

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 2, 2023

Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supply chain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. For manufacturers to remain competitive, adopting more IoT technologies into their supply chain is key. Challenge 1: Dealing with a fragmented system.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But when they go awry, quality issues can drive up material and labor costs, threaten margins, and result in missed orders. Having a modern quality management system in place is therefore critical. A drop in quality can indicate a broken process somewhere along the line. Quality management is critical to cost control.

Quality 105

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 10, 2022

With a manufacturing operation based on Assemble-to-order (ATO) , success hinges on being able to get products to customers quickly. To handle all these different aspects of the business, an ERP system can deliver significant benefits in making sure operations and processes run efficiently.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 4, 2022

How could a manufacturing business that bends, cuts and welds metal benefit from Cloud ERP? According to the recent SYSPRO global research survey, an enormous 82 percent of Fabricated Metal Manufacturers experienced supply chain and material handling disruptions over the past twelve months. Connecting through Cloud ERP.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 29, 2022

Manufacturers are aware they need to modernize to take advantage of what technology can offer. They saw how technology gave many businesses competitive advantage during the pandemic, and they are aware of how the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will change industries. Most plant floors are dominated by older equipment.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 22, 2024

Material Requirements Planning for a modern manufacturing environment Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is software that helps companies estimate the required quantities of raw materials, maintain inventory levels, and ensure manufacturing has all the items needed to make products to satisfy demand.

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OptiProERP

JANUARY 17, 2024

The ways in which manufacturers extract and apply business intelligence (BI) are in transition. Depending on a variety of factors, manufacturers are relying on everything from manually produced spreadsheets to inflexible legacy ERP systems all the way to “smart manufacturing” approaches utilizing IoT and even IIoT.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ongoing challenges in the supply chain, such as shortages caused by increased demands and the shutting down of some factories, continue to affect manufacturing businesses even to this day. A Bill of Materials (BOM) is a comprehensive list of all the items needed to manufacture a product. What is a Bill of Materials?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

These will require a re-think of how to manage products, streamline the business and interact with customers. Those manufacturers who are still using legacy or customized computer systems will find it difficult to make the necessary changes. Integration of design and manufacturing. Quality management.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 9, 2022

Manufacturers rely on data and their ERP platform to answer critical questions: What are our inventory levels? How much does it cost us to manufacture this product? With business intelligence (BI), organizations can identify questions that they didn’t even know to ask — along with answers to those questions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 22, 2023

Process changes to improve sustainability What sort of process changes should manufacturers be looking at to improve sustainability? How can your ERP help with a sustainability program An ERP system has several tools that support sustainability.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 11, 2022

Over the last decade, the role of the manufacturing and distribution CFO has undergone a profound shift. survey , 57% of manufacturing CFOs agree that proficiency and knowledge to create an effective plan to operationalize and transition the business into a digitalized and automated manufacturer is the most critical factor globally.

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QAD

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Adapting to Change with an Adaptive ERP. Your on-premise ERP system wasn’t designed to flex to all the new ways your organization is operating today. And when older systems are no longer well-aligned to processes, inefficiencies slip in. Adaptive ERP systems in the cloud are built to bend with change.

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you purchase a PLM solution without fully understanding the software’s capabilities, the decision can lead to issues like not meeting your product development needs, the inability to integrate your new PLM with existing systems or not being able to scale, and paying for features you don’t need.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

There is a belief that manufacturing is a mechanical process with not much thinking involved. While this is wrong for manufacturing in general it is especially wrong for process manufacturers – companies that produce food and beverages, paints, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. What is process manufacturing?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It has also emphasized how fragile supply chains really are. Manufacturers have realized that while they may aim to be stable, what they really need is to be agile. How rapidly can you adapt if something changes quickly like it has done? How do you ensure delivery if once reliable supply chains break?

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OptiProERP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Digital transformation is aggressively scaling up across all sectors of the manufacturing industry. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, 3D printing, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality are transforming the manufacturing world. It helps humans access the real world while interacting in 3D dimensions. 

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 28, 2024

Decision-making framework The recommended way to start moving towards data-driven decisions is to compile a data catalog to understand the data landscape, and to then decide on what data can improve your decision making capability. Data maturity is not just about collecting data, companies already do that in many systems.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From time to time, manufacturers will need to augment or supplement their ERP solution in specific business processes with a third-party application. Gartner has coined a term for it, calling it Composable ERP. With these programs provided by the ERP vendor , there can be hundreds of these applications to choose from.

System 98

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QAD

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s no surprise that Snack Food and Wholesale Bakery magazine is calling ERP “essential for snack and bakery companies” in a recent article, “ Snack and bakery companies search for new and improved ERP software ”. Cloud-based, adaptive ERP is secure and can be deployed, scaled and extended while being user friendly.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The general ledger (GL) is the recordkeeping system used to sort, store, and summarize a company’s financial transactions over time. It forms the backbone of any accounting system. Because it is so important, the way a GL is designed, used, and secured needs to be understood in a modern manufacturing business.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Given the radical changes of the pandemic, one strategic question electronics manufacturers should be asking themselves is whether they are prepared for further changes in the coming five to ten years. That is why many manufacturers opt for an ERP system to help them address their challenges. Manufacturing systems.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2022

If metrics can be built into a UX design, then surely the ability to do the same can be implemented into your ERP system – the system that we engage with daily. I started thinking about the basics of data collection for manufactures and distributors and what needs to be in place for business to achieve true ROI.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 14, 2022

Data plays a huge role in the ability to manufacture companies to draw powerful insights and create transformative experiences for customers and business growth. Many manufacturers just aren’t maximising its value and missing out on the unmatched efficiencies it provides. Collecting data for effective usage with business intelligence.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 17, 2022

Manufacturers and distributors can leverage Cloud ERP to revolutionize the way they do business and manage disruption as the impact of the global pandemic, regional instabilities, and natural disasters continues to cause supply chain volatility. Cloud ERP for a resilient supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 31, 2024

ERP customization to enable success for your customers When you’re trying to help a business unlock their full potential in the manufacturing industry, it’s essential that you empower them with the right tools to do so. Doing so helps them achieve greater efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

However, while it can be viewed positively, holding inventory also creates problems. Too little inventory also creates problems — for manufacturing, customer service, and maintenance. One of the biggest uncertainties of inventory management is how much stock to hold to meet changing demand. The role of inventory management.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Implementing an ERP project can be compared to climbing to the top of Mount Everest, you need to approach it one step at a time before reaching the peak. An ERP system can help a business dramatically improve its processes and remain competitive, but it’s a journey that must be taken with important considerations.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The food and beverage industry is the most important player in South Africa’s manufacturing industry, contributing approximately R85 billion a year to South Africa’s manufacturing sector. How to select the best ERP solution. Most recently, Nestle South Africa recalled its Kit Kat products over possible contaminants.

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2023

They can be physical and natural, like wildfires and tornadoes, or events such as pandemics and economic downturns that are less tangible yet equally, if not more, destructive to our communities and livelihoods. The company has been a QAD customer since the 1990s and moved its ERP operations from on-premise to the cloud in 2014.

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My Office Apps

MAY 30, 2023

ERP for Distributors: Streamlining Operations for Efficiency and Growth In today’s competitive business landscape, distributors face numerous challenges in managing their operations efficiently while ensuring sustainable growth. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have emerged as a powerful solution to address these challenges.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Every manufacturing organization is striving for continuous improvement, and for that to occur the workforce needs to come with solutions to existing problems. Manufacturers can use low code platforms to address internal business challenges such as changing a business process or the improvement of operations across the shop floor.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While consumer products manufacturers previously led the way for sustainable manufacturing practices, a growing number of manufacturers in other sectors are treating sustainability as an important operational objective to increase global competitiveness. The Sustainability Movement in Business and Manufacturing.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

A recent SYSPRO survey shows that only 45% of businesses have looked at systems to address supply chain disruptions and just 44% have investigated technologies that enable collaboration with external suppliers and customers. It has already done that in some of the goods that they export, like sunflower oil. .

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The past two and half years have certainly brought a variety of challenges and opportunities that have made innovation not just a preference, but essential for manufacturers and distributors to thrive into the future. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers. Obstacles on the data journey for manufacturers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 22, 2022

Margins for manufacturing firms are under pressure from increasing competition, rising material prices, high labour costs and supply chain disruptions. You’re probably all too familiar with issues that can slow down warehouse operations. Step 3: Develop a plan for ERP. It’s a perfect storm.

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