ERP & Manufacturing Solution Blog

Posted on Mar 30, 2016 9:30:00 AM by Vincent A. Stefanetti

How to Protect Against Ransomware: Six Steps to a Secure System

Everything you can image is connected to the internet. Your home security, car, phone and so many other devices. The world is going “Io-T” Internet of Things which is the term coined to describe the proliferation and expansion of devices that are connected to the internet. With everything...

Posted on Mar 17, 2016 10:32:44 AM by Louise Steck

Keeping Your Data Clean: When to Purge and When to Archive

Topics: ERP, data, data cleansing, Purge and Archive

The other day I was working with a Customer in Support. Their MAX system was running slowly and they weren’t sure why. The Cost Roll and From To Report in particular were creeping along. They wondered if the entire system had an issue. Then the Customer asked me if the slow-down could be due to the...

Posted on Mar 9, 2016 11:00:00 AM by Joy Budnik

The Internet of Things - Part 2: Current Manufacturing Applications

Topics: ERP, IoT

One definition of Digital Business is when “physical assets become digitalized and become equal actors in the business value chain.” Your car, for example, is an asset that was once primarily physcial. Many of today's cars (and certainly the cars of tomorrow) are largely software. And I'm not only...

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 10:00:00 AM by Joy Budnik

The Internet of Things - Part I: Opportunities and Challenges

Topics: ERP, IoT

The simplest way to think of IoT is to think “anything that can be connected, will be connected.” The definition offered up by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is “a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and...

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 9:30:00 AM by Steve Budnik

Merging Public and Private, Work and Home

Topics: ERP

For most of my life there have been clear distinctions between what you would categorize as private or public and what you would categorize as work or home. Distinctions between private and public and work and home are diminishing as the infrastructure that once supported them shifts to keep up...

Posted on Feb 10, 2016 9:30:00 AM by Julie Mathis

Five Steps to Fall in Love with Your ERP System

Topics: ERP

Amid the hustle and bustle of daily life, it’s easy to lose touch with the people you love. It’s just as easy to forget all the great features and functionality that caused you to select your ERP system. According to research published by the University of Waterloo in Ontario, unless people use...

Posted on Feb 3, 2016 8:30:00 AM by Julie Mathis

6 Low-Cost Marketing Initiatives to Grow Your Business

Topics: ERP, SMBs, Strategy, Marketing

You have a great product. You've painstakingly gone through every material and design detail, and are certain of the value you deliver to your customers. But, what good are your efforts if orders aren't coming in? Few businesses have unlimited resources. Within industries, individual players...

Posted on Jan 25, 2016 10:00:00 AM by Gary Needles

How To Turn Weaknesses Into Strengths

Topics: ERP Reporting

Any comic book fans? I, for one, am a huge fan of comic books and the seemingly never ending stream of comic spin-off moves that have been coming out the past few years. Recently, I've had my non-comic book friends ask me about the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie. How can a...

Posted on Jan 18, 2016 10:00:00 AM by Steve Budnik

Five Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Why do we make New Year’s Resolutions? Every New Year I wonder some of the same things. What’s so special about the beginning of a new year; is the 24 hour block of time on January 1st all that different from any other 24 hour block of time? Yes; but perhaps the 1st is ideally positioned to make it...

Posted on Dec 3, 2015 11:00:00 AM by MAX

The Top 7 Benefits of Working with an ERP Consultant

Topics: Implementation, ERP

Companies sometimes think that they're saving money by not hiring an ERP consultant, but in reality, the lack of an experienced consultant can lead to costly and time consuming mistakes that may prevent you from achieving the full value of your new ERP system. Here are 7 ways an ERP consultant will...