All Research Sponsored By:Epicor Software Corporation
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How To Choose Between Generic and Industry-Specific ERP Systems
This resource outlines eight tips that can help you simplify the enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection process and choose between a generic and industry-specific ERP platform.
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Four Ways To Better Production Efficiency
This resource highlights four ways that a manufacturing execution system (MES) can improve production efficiency and effectiveness, enhance manufacturing decision-making, and drive profitability.
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Four Quick Ways To Unlock Hidden Manufacturing Capacity
This white paper introduces four quick ways that you can unlock hidden manufacturing capacity and free up resources within your current operations, allowing you to effectively and efficiently meet increased manufacturing demands.
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Best Practices for Selecting ERP Software
This expert e-guide reveals all you need to know to drive enterprise resource planning (ERP) success. Inside, find advice on how to make the business case for an ERP investment, tips for selecting the right ERP software, expert recommendations for ensuring a successful implementation, and more.
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Making the Business Case for Two-Tier ERP
This expert e-book will help manufacturers analyze the costs and benefits of two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Inside, learn why two-tier ERP is on the rise, find best practices for sticking with a legacy ERP system, and more.
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Mobile ERP implementation tips for manufacturers
This expert guide examines how new mobile technologies and hardware have made mobile enterprise resource planning (ERP) an option for manufacturers, and offers key advice to help guide you through the selection process. Also inside, learn top mobile ERP implementation mistakes to avoid.
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How To Successfully Select An ERP System in Eight Simple Steps
This resource counts down eight steps that will help you simplify the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system selection process, allowing you to maximize the value of an ERP investment whether you're upgrading an existing system or implementing one for the first time.
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Three Key Areas to Reduce Costs with Lean Techniques
Most companies looking to apply lean techniques to their manufacturing processes in order to improve efficiencies and reduce costs start by adopting an ERP system – but ERP alone isn't enough. Read this paper to discover 3 areas to apply lean principles that will yield immediate cost savings and efficiency improvements.
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Improve Scheduling Production and Quality Using SaaS ERP
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology can provide impressive efficiency improvements, but tight budgets have made an ERP system unfeasible for most small and mid-sized businesses – until now. Read on to learn how adopting a Software as a Service ERP model can provide the benefits of ERP without the added overhead.
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Best Practices for ERP Implementation
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is being used by organizations as the core business management system, but implementation is proving to be trickier than most expected. Read this resource to learn eight essential steps you can take to ensure your ERP implementation initiatives is a success and avoid wasting time, money, and resources.
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ERP in Manufacturing 2012: The Evolving ERP Strategy
This 7th annual Aberdeen Group benchmark report explores trends of 2012 that have led to best-in-class approaches of manufacturers' ERP evolving strategies and performance results. Read more inside to learn how companies are tailoring ERP to their changing business needs, including adding functionality and mobility.
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Improving supply chain management with analytics
This e-guide examines the business case for manufacturing BI, and shows how manufacturers can take both demand and supply side signals into account when predicting future needs.
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Best practices for adopting a sustainable, collaborative and dynamic supply chain strategy
This e-guide reveals key trends and technologies driving the adoption of sustainable, collaborative and dynamic supply chain management strategies and explains why manufacturers are embracing third-party logistics providers (3PLs).
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Top considerations for manufacturing compliance software
This e-guide explores environmental and workplace compliance requirements and the considerations that manufacturers should keep in mind when choosing compliance software for their company.
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Simplifying the Making of Complex Products
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can be one of the best tools in your IT arsenal, but only if you have a system in place that is right for your particular business needs. Read this white paper to learn how a fully integrated ERP suite can help ease your product launch by giving you visibility into all of critical business data.
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Six Technology Tactics to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility
Read this white paper to learn about a new principle for manufacturers – corporate social responsibility (CSR). Learn how you can look to IT and software strategies to, not only exemplify good citizenship, but to achieve tangible financial benefits throughout your business and supply chain.
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How to select the best ERP strategy for your business
In the expert guide discover how the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy can increase overall efficiency and visibility in your enterprise. Learn 6 steps to evaluating ERP vendors, 8 questions that will help you determine your organization’s ERP needs, and much more.
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6 Ways to Justify Prices and Rein in Costs with Enterprise Software
Read this white paper to learn how medical manufacturers are using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to reduce the costs of their operations as well as justify current prices to insurers based on success rates and patient value.
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How To Select The Best ERP Strategy For Your Business
ERP systems can help organisations manage their internal and external resources, but sorting through ERP platforms and determining which one to choose can be a challenge. This expert e-guide offers best practices for evaluating ERP vendors to ensure you make the right decision for your business.
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Key Strategies for IT Success in Today's Distribution Environment
This white paper provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability.
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Managing Spend in a Distribution Environment
Read this white paper for best practices on how to integrate supplier relationship management (SRM) into your overall distribution enterprise strategy.
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The Best Strategies for a Successful CRM Strategy Implementation
How to have a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation.
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Global Business: Choosing the Right ERP Strategy
Although enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an important tool for boosting operational efficiency and cost savings, it also offers manufacturers a leg-up in their globalization efforts. Read this white paper to see how critical ERP can be to global business, and how to choose the best solution to support this imperative.
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SaaS ERP: A Viable Model for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers
This white paper describes how the software as a service (SaaS) model delivers financial, implementation and operational benefits to job shops and small manufacturers. With Epicor Express, job shops and small manufacturers now have the opportunity to implement an ERP solution that can help transform their operations and business.
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If You Teach a Customer to Fish: The Power of Web Self-Service
This document explores the power of online self-service and how it contributes to healthy customer relationships and delivers viable cost savings.