By Chip Johns, President and Chief Operating Officer, Butler Automatic Inc.
Why would a relatively small business choose to make the significant investment needed to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system?
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RSSEnterprise Resource Planning system helps manufacturing company reduce lead times
Feb 16, 2017
2016 the year of economic nationalism as supply chain risk reaches record high
Feb 14, 2017
Global supply chain risk grew to a record high at the end of 2016 as the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet, rose to 82.64, from 79.14 at the end of 2015.
Manufacturing driving production increase in the UK but IoT investment must not leave Britain behind
Feb 14, 2017
UK manufacturing contributed to a 1.1 percent increase in total production between November and December 2016, according to Office for National Statistics figures.
Why CRM is essential for effective contact centre engagement
Feb 09, 2017
Colin Hay, VP Sales, Intelecom UK looks at the advantages of smarter CRM.
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a moving target of definitions and associations. Even full time professional industry watchers have to update their standard definitions to reflect the evolution of a market that Gartner forecasts will be worth US$36.7 billion in 2017.
Let your ERP do the talking
Feb 09, 2017
By Michiel Schipperus, CEO, Sana Commerce.
With investment in ERP pretty much a certainty, most manufacturers have sweated both time and money to build, integrate and automate their back office functions and are now reaping the rewards associated with improved product planning, purchasing and delivery.
Streamlining processes yields savings and efficiency gains
Feb 09, 2017
By Chip Johns, President and Chief Operating Officer, Butler Automatic Inc.
Why would a relatively small business choose to make the significant investment needed to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system?
Why sellers could leave Amazon’s cargo airline grounded
Feb 08, 2017
By Jonathan Bellwood, Founder & CEO, Peoplevox.
As the global retailing giant strives to maintain maximum share of shoppers' wallets, Amazon is now investing 1.5bn dollars in an air cargo hub to support a fleet of "Prime Air" freight planes.
Over 41% of companies without EDI
Feb 08, 2017
Over 41% of businesses have no electronic data interchange (EDI) capability and 21% just use web portals, a new survey conducted by leading EDI company, Data Interchange, reveals.
50% of UK management candidates lack leadership skills
Feb 02, 2017
Every second candidate applying for a management level position is lacking leadership skills, according to UK HR directors.
New research by Robert Half UK of 200 HR directors also revealed that nearly one in five (18%) management candidates fall short on planning skills, with 15% lacking functional, job-related skills and 14% lacking communication skills.
Five trends in IT and digital communications in 2017
Jan 26, 2017
Continued digitisation of documentation and mobile workforces. But also continued strong growth for Push to Talk in areas such as security, crisis, logistics and healthcare. GroupTalks CEO Magnus Hedberg writes about what he believes are the strongest trends in IT and digital communications in 2017.
