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The 2024 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
Our experts have highlighted ten vendors that can help your organization make data-driven decisions.
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How to Establish an Effective Enterprise Strategy
An enterprise strategy is a broad term used to describe a company’s “big picture” corporate strategy. The development of this strategy deals with issues that affect a company and is typically developed at a high level in the company (i.e. the board of directors, top...
How to Conduct a Focus Group: Guidelines for Discussion
ERP projects and business transformations are exciting ventures for organizations. However, this excitement is almost always accompanied by apprehension. With this apprehension comes questions like: Will my employees reject the proposed changes? Will managers support...
10 Ways ERP Can Improve Loan Process Management
As veterans in the mortgage lending space and as operational efficiency experts, we have seen firsthand the benefits of fully integrated ERP systems. This technology can replace a patchwork of disparate systems to make complex loan processes streamlined, while...
How to Prepare for Post-merger Integration
Going through a merger or acquisition can be an exciting and emotional time. There are many questions surrounding new roles, business channels, production, compensation and sales territories. Think of it as driving a race car and changing the engine at the same time...
How to Determine ERP Customization and Configuration Needs
At the beginning of an ERP implementation, your company might be of the mindset that your ERP system will go live with out-of-the-box settings. In fact, many businesses start their ERP journey with this goal in mind and with good reason – staying out-of-the-box will...
4 Tips for Managing Large-scale Change
As companies become more globally interconnected, the reach and impact of their operations have scaled up to become global, as well. As a result, organizational change management projects are often no longer limited to just one region, but instead span multiple global...
What Change Management Assessments are Essential to ERP Success?
Change resistance and other roadblocks can delay a change initiative– or worse yet, cause it to fail. This is why companies about to embark on a business transformation or ERP project should use change management assessments to anticipate and mitigate roadblocks....
ERP Implementation Success Factors and Best Practices
Successful ERP implementations are executed in phases. With each phase comes a set of deliverables, exit criteria and best practices. Depending on the ERP implementation methodology chosen for your project, you may have more or fewer phases than what we have listed...
5 Customer Experience Transformation Tips
A great customer experience is not something that magically happens. It’s a mindset that’s built and reinforced by optimized processes and easy-to-use systems. In terms of optimized processes, we’re not just talking about customer-facing processes, as customer-facing...
ERP Software Selection Process Best Practices
Selecting the right ERP software for your company can lead to numerous business benefits. However, achieving these benefits entails an awareness of software selection process best practices. The secrets to successful selection are spreading like wildfire. If you...
8 Tips for End User Training
Most people dislike change. This makes implementing organizational changes difficult. If your company is about to undergo significant organizational changes, then preparing employees is the best way to mitigate change resistance. In fact, a comprehensive end user...
An Overview of Software Requirements Gathering
Baseball great Yogi Berra used to say, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.” This quote has survived through the years because it holds an undeniable truth: you need to have a goal in mind, or you’re likely to miss your target. This saying...
ERP Negotiation Tips: How to Handle and How to Find an Expert
ERP software can be a multi-million-dollar investment, but companies often don’t invest the same time, expertise and resources into negotiating these deals as they do negotiating other major capital outlays. This is not to say that companies aren’t concerned about the...
ERP Demo Tips: Ensuring ERP Demos Address Your Unique Processes
At a glance, organizing ERP demos can seem like a simple task – find a system that seems to fit your needs, call the vendor and have a representative conduct a demo. By following this method, you are guaranteed to see several impressive software solutions, but you are...
3 Process Improvement Lessons From Financial Firms
While financial firms are notorious for being slow to adopt new business processes, operations teams within some financial firms are finding ways to break down organizational silos and gain new efficiencies. How are they doing this? To understand their path to...
How Artificial Intelligence Improves ERP Software
While artificial intelligence (AI) is a relatively new technology, it has already demonstrated its disruptive potential and created a buzz in the software market. In fact, according to Gartner, as much as 80% of emerging technologies will have artificial intelligence...
The e-Commerce Conundrum: In-house vs. Third-party Shipping
As the e-commerce industry shifts from global to international, efficient shipping processes become vital for business success and continuity. If you’re looking to expand your shipping and delivery infrastructure, choosing the right e-commerce shipping model can help...
ERP Data Migration and Cleansing Tips
What’s one of the most important questions to ask before beginning ERP implementation? Is our data clean? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. Most companies have data spread across multiple platforms and formatted in various ways. Our advice to these companies is...
5 Tips for Prioritizing ERP Requirements
When your organization decides to implement a new ERP system, it can be an exciting time for employees. There is hope on the horizon that the tedious workarounds or functional gaps within the current system will be replaced with a better and more advanced system....
