ERP system replacement
White paper detail 12 important criteria for selecting your best ERP replacement. It’s no small matter to replace your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. By definition, the ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value chain. Replacing it can be a difficult and painful process. When it is done correctly...
ERP Selection
White paper discussing the selection of an ERP system. Make it easy… Don’t worry about the functionality, concentrate on your implementation partner...
Developing a Successful ERP Business Case
White paper showing how to develop a successful ERP business case. Developing a business case for a new business system, ERP or otherwise, is a difficult task. It is best if it can be developed by the entire business to ensure ‘buy-in’. Though I don’t pretend that this is the definitive guide to writing business cases I hope that you can use some of these ideas to develop your business case...
ERP or Best of Breed
When I first came across ERP, as part of the evaluation committee for a multi-site UK manufacturing business I was very ‘anti’. I thought the complexity was too great for a ‘simple’ manufacturer. After using ERP for many years I am entirely convinced of its value....
ERP Multi-site – It can, can you?
White paper on multi-site ERP. The concept of implementing multi-site ERP can seem very attractive but the stumbling blocks in many projects are often to do with company culture, not the software...
10 Reasons to Choose a Source Code ERP Solution
White paper showing the benefits of choosing a source code solution. Your ERP System may seem like a black box, entries are made and the data comes out on business documents and reports. Source refers to the programming language that was used to create the applications that tell the system how to behave. Common programming languages are...
Getting the best from your ERP Project team
White paper discussing how to get the best from your ERP project team. You want to select the best people for your ERP implementation project but how do you convince them that it’s a good career move?"...
ERP and Sarbanes Oxley
White paper discussing the implications of Sarbanes Oxley upon ERP. From Enron to MCI, extreme accounting practices and poor management judgment have shattered investor confidence. That's why Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, "to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws."...
Capacity Strategy
Defining the capacity strategy. Maintaining the economic balance between your capacity and sales performance requires an explicit capacity strategy. What is involved in establishing an effective capacity strategy? How is it different from a capacity plan?...
Accounting - Batch or Real Time?
Batch v Real Time Transaction Processing...
Lean Accounting
White paper on Lean Accounting. Lean has been applied very successfully to the shop floor with admirable results. There has been some literature published on approaches to applying Lean principles to the accounting department but I found it somewhat vague and wanting....
Physical Inventory
White paper on physical inventory best practices. GAAP does require at annual physical count. Often cycle counting is accepted by outside auditors but an annual physical count is still the most common scenario....
Part Numbering
White paper part numbering best practices. The foundation of any manufacturing system is part numbers. Yet typically, very little thought is put into setting up a part numbering system. Every purchase order, inventory transaction, sales order, invoice and all your bills of material are composed of part numbers..
ERP White Papers
Selection of white papers covering all aspects of ERP...
Production Scheduling
White paper discussing production scheduling. Those of us involved in production and manufacturing have found the past several years to be quite challenging. In company after company, attention is shifting back to the source-- -to the plant--- and fundamental issues are being addressed once again...
Customer Management
White paper discussing customer management. Ask any progressive business executive to name his company’s most valuable asset. His most frequent answer will likely be “our customers.”...
Engineering Change Notices - Best Practice
White paper discussing Engineering Change Notices. Every manufacturing organization makes product design changes. In advanced technological industries such as electronics, and Make-to-Order environments, rapidly evolving bills of material are commonplace...
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