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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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Using ERP for flexible manufacturing

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With modern ERP systems , manufacturers can still be productive, as well as being agile. Flexible manufacturing is important as part of a make-to-order or assemble-to-order strategy that allows customized products and keeps inventories low. An ERP enables collaboration across the enterprise.

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Four benefits of centralized analytics within your ERP system

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

It’s common that manufacturing and distribution enterprises would use a third-party Business Intelligence (BI) solution to analyze and interpret data from their ERP system. One of the key strategies is leveraging embedded analytics within their ERP system to make faster data-driven decisions.

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ERP Implementation: The importance of project management

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Many companies were spurred into action during the pandemic to introduce systems that would digitize their operations like ERP Implementation. Mid-size companies considering implementing an ERP system as the route to digital transformation need to be aware that it is a complex system with a major business impact.

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The role of ERP in the smart factory

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The more technology shifts manufacturing structures, systems and strategies, the more business-critical ERP becomes, and proper techniques are needed to make processes more efficient. Manufacturing businesses – many of which have highly specialized requirements – need to look at the value of ERP strategically.

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What is Cloud ERP?

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An example of such technology is seen as a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Cloud ERP enables manufacturing organizations to achieve connectedness and real-time visibility of all internal and external data that affects operations, which helps them better anticipate and react to supply chain disruptions.

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How Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Thinking About ERP (TAE) can be used with an ERP system

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Finally, fourteen years ago, a book called ‘Thinking about ERP’ was published, which explained how businesses should think about selecting, deploying and operating an ERP to achieve business requirements. Thinking about ERP. It provides the decision-makers with three questions to ask about the ERP solution.

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