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Using ERP (enterprise resource planning) software such as SYSPRO can help you get new agri-products and food products to market faster and better than ever before. SYSPRO provides detailed information and real-time insights into every aspect of your supply chain so that you can manage, track, and monitor product development activities. With enhanced project management software and CRM modules that can monitor customer feedback, you’re well on your way to getting to market faster than your competitors.

No matter where you turn, there’s an app for that. Mobile apps for work, play, school, and hobbies are everywhere. Mobile has become a ‘must have’ instead of a ‘nice to have’ technology for every facet of the business world, including manufacturing.

There are many benefits for manufacturers who want to “go mobile.” Ease, convenience, and flexibility is just starting points. For manufacturers, one of the best software tools on the market is SYSPRO Espresso, a mobile ERP app that enables you to tap into your company’s data anytime, anywhere you have an internet connection.  

Real-time and predictive analytics are changing how CFOs manage their company’s finances. With SYSPRO ERP, data can be used to create strategies for growth, profitable capital management, and improved cash flow.

The Right ERP System Makes All the Difference

CFOs today do more than managing cash flows. They are strategic decision makers, charged with helping chart the company’s course through business cycles that can be rough going. With the right ERP system, the data that’s needed to analyze, predict, and respond to the changing demand cycles in the manufacturing business is available upon demand.

Top manufacturers know something you may not know—they know who the most important person is in their organization. No, it’s not the CEO, the CIO, or even the person who brews the best pot of coffee (important though that person may be to corporate morale and productivity). It’s your customers. With SYSPRO ERP, manufacturers can put customers front and center and prioritize work around the needs of their customers. 

KPMG surveyed manufacturers and found that manufacturers who closely follow their customers wants, needs, and desires tend to build an innovative organization.

Manufacturing Bottlenecks Slow Productivity and Increase Costs

Supply chain management software can help you improve efficiencies throughout the manufacturing environment. Imagine a factory producing 1,000 widgets a month. As long as the supply chain moves along smoothly, those widgets can be produced on time. But what if something alters the order queue? What if your biggest customer suddenly doubles their order? What then?

ERP selection means taking into consideration numerous features to choose the system that best meets your business needs. You’re choosing a system not just for today’s needs, but for the future. And although you can’t see with certainty what tomorrow holds, you can prepare for the future by keeping your options open.

One way to keep your options open is to make sure that your ERP selection includes an API interface. An API interface enables you to write custom code to add your own scripts later on. Many companies, for example, are exploring the world of AI, or artificial intelligence, and how they can add it to their ERP selection to improve performance and customer service.

Manufacturers have specific needs when it comes to ERP systems and when considering a new ERP they would be wise to consider these three questions and to pursue solutions that answer them. Some of these needs are “nonnegotiable” and essential to get the most out of your ERP implementation. But skipping these questions it can lead to a poor implementation experience.

If you are like most people, you start off the New Year with a bang. You set goals and think about them daily. You push, push, and push a little bit more to try to reach these new resolutions. January is easy, but come February you start to get complacent. Those resolutions tend to get pushed to the back burner. Everything else seems to creep in and the goals simply get pushed aside. By simply keeping your goals in the forefront of your mind, you can keep 2017 going strong and not have the February burnout.

Much of this logic can be applied, not just to life goals, but to your ERP system as well.

We all like to have extra cash in our wallets. But, when running a business, cash is king, and a business runs on its cash flow. A shortage in your business cash flow can put a halt on your growth. On the other hand, a strong cash flow enables business growth. The tools to improve your cash flow may be right at your fingertips. By using your ERP system resources more effectively, you can keep your business on the road to a positive cash flow.

SYSPRO has a great hybrid solution to fit your needs

There is one thing that seems to keep moving forward, no matter what else is happening in the world: technology.  At times, it feels impossible to keep up with it.  A new update pops up on our phones or computers daily.  Keeping an open mind to the new possibilities is key to keeping up with new technology.