Using Business Software to Achieve Lean Manufacturing For Profitability
This article – provided by ERP vendor SYSPRO – outlines how enterprise business software can help manufacturing companies implement Lean fundamentals.
Mobility and the Enterprise: How to Build a Business Case for Mobile ERP
Whether businesses like it or not, they have to be agile to succeed. If managing extreme economic volatility wasn’t challenging enough, businesses also have to contend with shifts caused by natural disasters (e.g., the Japanese supply disruption), faster cycles of technological innovation and obsolescence, and structural shifts in the labour market.
Finding the Balance: When ERP and Business Needs Conflict
The current economic climate is causing many organizations to rethink their ERP projects – whether selection, implementation or optimization. Many businesses are now hesitating because they’re no longer sure that it’s in their best interests to fund the projects or to divert precious human capital resources.
ERP Project Managers: How Technical Do They Have To Be?
Once again, the folks at Focus.com have stimulated a timely conversation – this time about IT project management credentials. Caty Kobe, a Community Manager at Focus.com, asked “Does a project manager need to have an IT background?”.
FusionIS Uses Pemeco’s Milestone Deliverables to Drive Successful Implementation at Johannesburg Metrobus
On December 1, 2010, Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Service (Metrobus) went live on Oracle’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software. Metrobus now relies on the software to manage its fleet of 532 commuter buses, which collectively transport 90,000 passengers per day.
Reframing ERP Contract Negotiations to Drive Implementation Success
Really, now. Is this just another example of an author using an alarmist title for shameless promotion? Or, is there actual substance behind my bold claim that ERP contract negotiations – which, by the way, are fully completed before ERP implementation even starts – can actually be a key driver of implementation success?
ERP Implementation Tip #23: Modifications, Customizations, Personalizations & Interface Projects
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we laid out the key components of an actionable data migration plan.
This week, we circle back and cover customizations, personalizations and interface projects. These projects are intended to extend the functionality of the ERP or IT software into areas that are not covered by out-of-the-box functionality.
ERP Implementation Tip #22: Four Components of a Data Migration Plan
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we laid out the key concepts of data migration. This week, we breakdown the four key components of an actionable data migration plan.
ERP Implementation Tip #21: Data Migration | Key Concepts
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we discussed the end-user training phase – the phase during which the implementing organization’s employees are taught how to incorporate the new system into their daily work routines.
We now start our discussion of data migration. Given the importance of this topic, it will span two tips. In this week’s tip, we cover the key concepts. In next week’s tip, we will explain how to tie these various concepts together into an actionable migration plan.
ERP Implementation Tip #20: Cutover Countdown | End-User Training
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we discussed the integrated pilot phase – the third of three systems testing phases in an ERP implementation project.
With the testing complete, the implementing organization suddenly finds itself under-the-gun to make sure that its troops are ready to work in the new operating environment.
In this week’s tip, we discuss the end-user training phase – the phase during which the employees are taught how to incorporate the new system into their daily work routines.
