ERP Resource Library

Determine real-time profitability by warehouse, product line, location, or business unit while reducing costs across your entire supply and distribution chain.

Improving business efficiency is a perennial concern for any company that hopes to achieve "best-in-class" operations. Businesses that successfully improve efficiency stand to reduce operating costs while improving the effectiveness and profitability of their operations. They also gain time to devote to strategic planning.

Many enterprises have already adopted Software as a Service (SaaS) for non-critical applications-more than three-quarters of U.S. organizations by the end of 2009, according to IDC. Now some are beginning to examine the case for introducing SaaS for core business applications, such as accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

The Forrester Wave evaluation of enterprise apps software licensing and pricing assesses vendors against two distinct requirement sets: small- and medium-sized business (SMB) licensing requirements that favor user based pricing, and large enterprise licensing requirements that value a choice of licensing metrics.

Last Friday, Agresso conducted a research analyst call regarding a number of recent wins they have made in the North American ERP software market. Highlights of the call included a brief talk from Ray Wang of Forrester and a discussion from George Lawton, VP of Vector Aerospace.

Agresso Business World offers customers unrivalled post-implementation agility – the ability to alter the system and get new information out when your requirements change, without having to call in external help. It is Agresso's unique VITA architecture that allows it to do this.

In this paper we respectfully present our conclusion, namely that some LEAN initiatives can be hugely strengthened with a synergistic ERP implementation and vice versa, whereas in other cases the two efforts should really be viewed as separate initiatives and managed independently from each other.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products salespeople make a lot of promises, and to listen to them, you might think that simply installing their software on a server and paying their licensing fees is all that is required to realize measurable business benefits.

Any manufacturer that has a substantial number of shipments from a distribution facility has likely at least considered bringing some degree of automation to their warehouse and shipping functions.

The maximum output of many manufacturing operations is determined primarily by their market. The company can sell only a percentage of the products that the manufacturing plant can produce.

Periodically throughout history, the world economy changes in drastic, revolutionary ways. These changes are driven by technology, the spread of new ideas and ways of
thinking, cultural changes and the gradual accumulation of human experience. Examples of these economic sea changes include the transition from hunter-gatherer

A low rumble is emanating from Microsoft about its new .NET initiative. The volume is rising. Have you heard it? You will. .NET (pronounced "Dot Net") will be ringing in our ears by fall 2001 when the first .NET software is officially released and Microsoft brings its marketing machine up to full power.

Now more than ever, organizations of all sizes and descriptions are struggling to comply with regulations and manage the risks and penalties of failing to operate within the rules. Establishing, maintaining and proving compliance
requires both money and time that executives and shareholders would rather invest in top-line growth.