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Short business reminders by Sage as well as Independent Experts:Managing Regulations with ERPMore and more, companies are under pressure to maintain their competitiveness while complying with an increasing array of regulatory requirements. And more than any other sector, manufacturers bear the highest share of the cost. How companies manage their response to these mounting regulations can have a significant impact on the bottom line. And having a process in place that is capable of collecting the information needed – while being easily tailored to specific company requirements – is paramount to the success of the business.
| How Does Your Business Grow?In implementing an ERP system, companies always seek ways to streamline operations and reduce costs. However, the opportunities to improve processes and minimize expenses eventually will fall to the law of diminishing returns. At some point, it will be impossible to go any further without the effort expended outweighing any added value. That’s why it’s important to always consider how your business will grow. Beyond automating processes and reducing costs with an ERP system, you have to seek out opportunities to develop your revenue stream. An advanced ERP system will provide additional tools that can help build your business.
| Business Intelligence: Integration Matters!In today’s competitive marketplace, you need every available edge to ensure your company’s success. You need information that will help guide your strategic decisions. Implementing an ERP system that integrates all your information and processes into one coherent environment is a first – and major – step towards improved decision-making. But capturing and processing data is not sufficient to give you the insight into your business that you need today. Only when coupled with a business intelligence system can your ERP system enable users to analyze and act on that data quickly and effectively.
| Optimize Your ERP System: How to Avoid the Implementation SinsStatistics show that more than 60 percent of implementations fail to meet expectations, including not realizing the anticipated ROI, extending the implementation schedule and go live date far beyond planned, going over budget by a large amount, interrupting the organization so much that business suffers and stopping production and/or not delivering products to customers.But, this doesn’t mean your project is doomed from the start. Understanding the factors that can interfere with the project as well as what items can lead to success is extremely important (by Jeff Law, CPIM, Senior Manager, Sage ERP X3 Consulting Services)
| Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration with Trading PartnersTrading partner reluctance to connect electronically can be so considerable efforts can easily fail, leaving few companies to achieve any significant advantages. Effectively communicating the above benefits and involving partners in the process of establishing the right tools will help breakdown barriers to collaboration. This "win/win" scenario provides the incentive for suppliers to make the process and technology changes that will ensure success for all parties (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Business Consultant).
| How do ERP systems help reduce costs?: An Aberdeen Group ReportIn the face of rising energy costs and a fear of a global economic downturn, reducing costs is a top priority for today’s mid-size companies as they develop their ERP strategies. Yet, in order to preserve revenue streams and market share, cost reductions cannot come at the expense of customer service. This report explores feedback from over 500 mid-size companies, and aims to serve as a roadmap to those that desire to reduce costs, and improve accuracy and delivery performance (by Cindy Jutras and Risa Barnett, Aberdeen Group)
| Optimize Your Business: How ERP Can Improve Productivity and ProfitabilityAs they grow, companies rely on more processes, activities and systems to run their businesses. These likely include a number of manual and automated workflows and procedures as well as a variety of applications and legacy databases that are poorly integrated. At some point they hinder the company’s ability to grow and meet new challenges under controlled conditions. In today’s dynamic and competitive marketplace, cluttered systems can impede productivity, profitability and growth (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Business Consultant).
| BI Implementation: Building Blocks for an Effective SystemAn important lesson learned from even the most successful ERP system implementations is that automating business transactions doesn’t add significant value or provide a measurable return on investment in and of itself. The real value-add comes from doing something meaningful with the wealth of data generated by ongoing system activity. How can you ensure your company doesn’t fall into the same trap when evaluating a new enterprise and business intelligence system? This white paper reviews several key requirements to look for prior to purchasing a new system – integration, usability, experience, visibility and security. Think of these requirements as building blocks that together will help form a rock-solid Business Intelligence solution soon after your new ERP system is up and running. (by Bill Owens, Independent Consultant)
| Going Global: Key Functional Issues Your ERP System Should Manage Globalization is changing the way businesses compete. To succeed, companies must create new ideas that help them tap into global
| Managing Product Recalls to Reduce Risk and Minimize CostA modern enterprise system can help food and beverage producers address the challenges of industry-specific requirements and legal mandates and gain the trust and confidence of their customers and business partners, turning a seemingly nonproductive business activity into a competitive differentiator that contributes to the success of their businesses. (by Bob Gaydas, Senior Business Consultant)
| RFID: When is the best time to consider a solution?Retail giants like Wal-Mart and Home Depot have issued RFID compliance mandates. As a result, many mid-market companies are prioritizing RFID for their IT budgets. How should your company react? (by Bill Owens, External Consultant)
| Business Intelligence: What makes a good performance indicator?What to consider when determining KPIs, and how Sage ERP X3’s business intelligence tools allow companies to define their own unique performance metrics (by Jeff Law, CPIM, Senior Manager)
| 21 CFR Part 11: Complying Doesn't Have to be a BurdenCompliance with regulatory requirements is a business-critical need that must be maintained, and the FDA recognizes the role of business software in helping companies manage compliance. Sage ERP X3 offers embedded functionality to maintain audit trails, digital electronic signatures, document signatures, validation scripts and security safeguards (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Consultant).
| ERP Facts and InformationGeneral guidelines when selecting a business system and common ERP implementation problems that determine the success or failure of a project (by Luis Solano, President and Founder of Trivalent Solutions)
When Is It Time to Replace Your Current ERP System?3 simple steps to determine whether it is time to upgrade your management system and switch to an ERP system such as Sage ERP X3. (by Chuck Langenhop, Director of ERP Transition Management at CFO Advisory Services -Richardson,TX)
| Fostering Internal and External CollaborationCreating electronic collaboration with your partners, suppliers and/or customers will help you manage end-to-end processes in a more efficient and cost-effective way. Sage ERP X3 provides your company with a best-of-class communicative architecture that allows you to imagine and set up various types of external connections to your business applications. (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Consultant)
| Inventory on the Water: Do You Know Where It Is?The shift in the supply chain makes tracking imports essential to providing an accurate view of material availability. How does the Sage ERP X3 Import Tracking functionality help mid size companies meet that new challenge? (by Jeff Law, CPIM, Senior Manager)
| HACCP Regulations: How Does Your Enterprise Comply?How a commercial food processor company complies with HACCP systems regulations can have a significant impact on its bottom line (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Consultant)
| Accommodating Configured Products in the Warehouse...How product configuration tools, like those which are found in Sage ERP X3, can help ensure that proposals for final product assembly are intelligently configured to meet customer needs (by Sage)
| Beyond ROIHow to make sure you are creating long term value through ERP systems (by Paul Sita, Innovative IT Consulting, LLC)
| Bioterrorism ActWhat you need to examine to comply with the Bioterrorism Act requirements (by Bill Newcomer, Product Expert)
| Five Pitfalls of Application Package SelectionFive pitfalls that should be avoided in order to help you select a business application package (byJohn Pellegrino, Principal, Applications Consultant Innovative IT Consulting, LLC)
| Lean Manufacturing Lean strategies for the process manufacturer(by Stan Stone CFPIM Innovative IT Consulting, LLC)
| The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Sage ERP X3The tools provided by Sage ERP X3 to help comply with SOX requirements (by Tom Heinricher, Senior Business Consultant)
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