Eight years ago, I published a post on HBR, that summarized extensive research I had undertaken to understand how risk creates cost in any supply chain. My work was different from most other supply chain risk research in that I was concerned with how risk creates actual, every-day cost in Continue Reading
As businesses today are navigating through a disruptive and turbulent economic climate, they need to strive to adapt themselves to achieve a robust and sustainable supply chain. It is likely that companies can navigate through the most of the unpredictable conditions to a great extent if they can intelligently acquire Continue Reading
Businesses today identify ERP systems as one of the critical IT investments to equip their business with capabilities to meet the fast-changing needs of customers. But, the ERP software market today is saturated with solutions from numerous vendors offering a host of features and with different pricing models coming at Continue Reading
How To Avoid Disruptions In your Supply Chain? Supply Chain disruption is probably one of the biggest fears shared by nearly all manufacturing supply chain planning professionals. Even the most established organisation’s supply chains may be destabilized due to a myriad of reasons like the recent outbreak of the pandemic Continue Reading
Why BAQ execution plan is so important when you’re moving to Epicor Cloud? (Or) Are you designing your BAQ’s efficiently? Have you heard sometimes your IT Administrator saying that… I saw a spike in the memory and CPU usage of the Epicor servers. I got a complaint from the end-user Continue Reading
What is the context? We wanted to develop an auction module for our flagship product MeRLIN. An e-Auction by nature is time-bound, where participants from across the globe login and submit their bids. During this period, the system is expected to provide competitive information on the participant’s bids against other Continue Reading
With technology evolving at stunning rates, the manufacturing sector has entered a new era of ‘Industry4.0’, also called ‘Smart Manufacturing’. It comprises a mix of technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Additive manufacturing or 3D Printing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), etc at its core that extends manufacturing capabilities to newer Continue Reading
Businesses today are under pressure to keep moving and identify the latest technologies that can let them remain competitive in the global marketplace. Your ERP system has a pivotal role to play in improving your business’s efficiency. A move from your legacy ERP system to a modern one like Epicor Continue Reading
In this dynamic business environment, there is a need for the organization’s ERP system to be adaptive to changing business requirements. These needs must be recognized and fulfilled efficiently to attain a competitive advantage. What is Adaptive ERP? A Forbes article by Scott D Anthony confirms that “indeed, for leaders Continue Reading
When was the last time you did an ERP (Enterprise Resource System) upgrade? We guess most of your answer would be “not in recent memory”. For most of us, the thought of upgrading ERPs is quite daunting, unlike the way we upgrade to the latest versions of apps or even Continue Reading
