Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is not a magic bullet. ERP systems have become more affordable, effective and -- to a significant degree -- essential, but manufacturers need to pause before joining ...

Welcome to Take Five with Automation World. I’m David Greenfield, director of content, and in this episode we’ll be looking at the use of enterprise resource planning software—typically referred to as ...

Learn the benefits of bringing IoT devices and manufacturing ERP together and explore the best practices of IoT-ERP integration. Over the years, ERPs have become a common type of software in the ...

Cyberlobe Technologies Canada Ltd, a Surrey, British Columbia-based vendor-neutral ERP and CRM advisory firm, is observing a ...

A few years ago, I spoke with an operations manager at a mid-sized manufacturer who sounded like he hadn’t slept in weeks. Their “systems” were a patchwork: an aging on‑prem ERP for finance, a ...

Enterprise resource planning is the integration of various corporate functions using information technology. The main objective of a small or large manufacturing company's ERP project is to track its ...

Having used a combination of QuickBooks and Solarsoft ERP for years to run its manufacturing operations, Vital Plastics—a high-volume plastic injection molding and assembly company—experienced ...

In the final part of his journey around the Cloud ERP Manufacturing sector, Brian Sommer turns his attention to Plex. Plex is the grand master of the cloud ERP space having been founded in the late ...

Maybe it’s just me, but there seems to be a noticeable shift among small- and medium-sized manufacturers (SMB manufacturing) toward cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP). This is notable because ...

Day one of Dreamforce was dull. Long on theater, short on substance I was at first disappointed in what felt like a re-run of last year's event. Larry Dignan noted that: The opening of Dreamforce 2011 ...