Optimum has become a new Premier Vendor member of the Epicor User Group. Optimum has been designing, developing and delivering end-user ERP training programmes since 1998, working with over 350 worldwide clients on implementations and upgrades, including a series of Epicor ERP clients.
Manufacturing Software, ERP, MRP
Manufacturing software systems are important tools for the automation and management of production processes. A wide range of manufacturing companies covering many different vertical sectors rely on manufacturing software to better manage the sourcing and use of material or parts quantities, scheduled production timelines, inventory management and the planning for future order demand. One commonly deployed example of a manufacturing software system is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, designed to better manage information concerning orders and materials, finance, Customer Relationship Management etc.over the whole organisation.
Eurozone issues are concerning UK manufacturers, says KPMG
Jul 01, 2015
The latest CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI has reported a slowdown in growth, the lowest growth since early 2013. KPMG's UK Head of Industrial Manufacturing, Stephen Cooper, said:
SATO’s PJM RFID technology integrated with BIT Consulting’s myMEDISET
Jun 25, 2015
SATO, the global provider of Auto-ID solutions that empower workforces and streamline operations, and BIT Consulting, the software solutions provider for the healthcare industry, have announced that SATO's PJM RFID Technology is now available with myMEDISET.
Greasing the wheels of the automotive supply chain
Jun 17, 2015
By Stefan Issing, global automotive industry director at IFS.
When it comes to manufacturing's next revolution – the much-discussed Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 – the automotive industry is firmly in the driving seat. A trailblazer across key manufacturing trends, the automotive industry is accelerating the move towards a world in which raw materials and machines communicate with each other within an Internet of Things for smart, flexible, resource-friendly production.
SAIC deploys NetSuite OpenAir across more than 10,000 personnel
Jun 17, 2015
NetSuite Inc. has announced that Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), the technology integrator for government and select commercial customers, has deployed NetSuite OpenAir as a single, unified platform to run its critical resource management processes.
Veeva Systems to deliver Veeva CRM Events Management and Veeva Align for greater commercial effectiveness
Jun 11, 2015
Veeva Systems kicked-off its 7th Commercial Summit with the launch of two major new Veeva Commercial Cloud products, Veeva Align and Veeva CRM Events Management.
Hamilton switches on better business with Infor
Jun 11, 2015
Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced that electrical accessories and supplies manufacturer R. Hamilton & Co has invested in Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine).
Columbus acquires manufacturing specialist
Jun 04, 2015
International consultancy Columbus has significantly boosted its offering to the UK manufacturing sector after acquiring Denmark-based Microsoft Dynamics AX specialist: MW data.
UK manufacturing catching up when it comes to mobile adoption
Jun 04, 2015
Fast adoption of mobile technologies by UK manufacturers is enabling the industry to remain competitive with other countries, according to findings from business solutions provider K3 Syspro.
Anagram Systems provides five tips to help SMEs identify the right time to adopt ERP software
Jun 04, 2015
As a business grows, managing information, processes and operations inevitably becomes more complex. Companies often address the issue by investing in different software systems to remedy specific pain-points.
Manufacturing software systems
Manufacturing software systems provide the automation and computational support for complex manufacturing processes. Manufacturing companies leverage manufacturing software systems to carefully manage the timing, types and quantities of materials they purchase in order to ensure that they are able to meet current and future customer demand while at the same time achieving the lowest possible cost and inventory accumulation.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organisation and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.
Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) addresses operational planning in units, financial planning, and has a simulation capability to answer "what-if" questions and extension of closed-loop MRP.
CRM or Customer Relationship Management concerns the relationship between an organisation and its customers. The scope of CRM which can vary drastically as it can be used by management, salespeople, people providing service, and even customers could directly access information to find out information.
Cloud computing can be defined as the set of hardware, networks, storage, services, and interfaces that combine to deliver aspects of computing as a service. Cloud services include the delivery of software, infrastructure, and storage over the Internet and is based on user demand. Cloud Computing is the latest stage in the Internet's evolution, providing the means through which everything , from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business can be delivered to you as a service wherever and whenever you need.
Cloud computing has some essential characteristics: scalability depending on requirements, offers a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, eliminates the need for on-site personnel to maintain computer equipment. No up-front CAPEX (capital expenditure) required, as billing is a pay-as-you-go model, access to the very latest application programming interfaces (APIs).
SaaS (software as a service) is a type of cloud computing delivering a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting. SaaS is emerging to provide service to all aspects of an organisation`s activities in the areas of Manufacturing, ERP, Demand Forecasting, Advanced Planning, S&OP, Supply Chain, Warehousing, Transport Management and HR (human resource).
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, processes and technologies that convert raw data into useful information for business purposes. BI can handle large amounts of information to help identify and develop new opportunities to gain market advantage over competitors. The amounts of data that are now being gathered as a result of because they are increasingly being gathered by a growing range of diverse and ubiquitous information-gathering devices.
These data sets become so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data. The current challenges of BIG DATA include the capture, storage, search and share capability, transfer, analysis, and visualisation. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. This data is big data.
It is estimated that the world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s. The challenge for large enterprises is determining who should own big data initiatives that straddle the entire organisation and how this data can be used as a source of revenue and to gain competitive advantage.