The urgency for Canadian manufacturers to embrace Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 – or the fourth industrial revolution – refers to a cyber-physical environment that self-optimizes. The system collects data, creates its own analytical models,
6 Keys to Drive ERP Success and Avoid Black Swan Failures
In its September 2011 issue, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) featured an article on IT project failures, Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think. As an example of an IT project failure, the authors discuss how Levi-Strauss’ $5 million ERP project morphed into monstrous losses of $200 million.
ERP and Shared Services: What You Need to Know About Standardization and Centralization
If your company manages multiple operating facilities, it’s probably asked itself whether it makes sense to standardize each business unit on the same ERP system.
Omni-Channel: A Primer for Retailers & Wholesale Distributors
A primer for retailers and wholesale distributors on the five critical elements to delivering a seamless omni-channel customer experience.
What History Can Teach Us About ERP-Driven Productivity
Businesses today tend to look at ERP as a solution to whatever ails them. Unfortunately, this mindset often leads to disappointment. Learn how our business forebearers designed ERP as part of a broader organizational solution set.
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 Implementation Tip #8: 5 Steps to Building a Formalized ERP Project Plan
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, I wrote about the importance of creating a turn-by-turn project roadmap.
This week, I outline 5 crucial steps to building an actionable, manageable and measurable ERP implementation project plan.
Pemeco Implements ERP Action Plan to Optimize Planning and Budgeting for Aerospace Manufacturer
After we implemented the ERP Action Plan, this aerospace manufacturer improved planning and shop scheduling accuracy by 20%. It cut budgeting and forecasting labour time by by 75%. Learn how we helped this manufacturer drive business benefits by optimizing its ERP system.
ERP: How It Can Help Your Business
Industry reports and promotional materials make ERP sound like manna-for-business, dropped down from the heavens above. They say that ERP can make your business more efficient, responsive, integrated, transparent, profitable, productive… and the list goes on. What you really want to know, though, is how ERP can help your business. And, what’s the catch?
