ERP Whitepapers

The principles behind project-based business practices are now being embraced and applied to businesses ranging from manufacturing to services. This whitepaper discusses the megatrends driving this change, what it means for industrial companies, and how Project-Based Solutions (PBS), a new type of ERP, can allow executives to intelligently navigate these uncertain waters.

In the relentless pursuit of profitability and competitiveness, more and more companies are turning to lean manufacturing to reduce or eliminate waste in their production processes. This paper illustrates how IFS Applications supports lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop-floor execution.

Our 21st century society has become so used to change and new developments that genuinely progressive concepts are initially not recognised by many people. There is then a rush to implementation once the benefits become obvious. Virtualisation is a good example of this, with the technology being

‘Soviet era software’ is a phrase that neatly sums up all that’s wrong with that generation of business systems, originally designed in the twilight years of the Cold War era, that still permeates the enterprise landscape today. Centrally controlled, oppressive for users, and inflexibly operated to a

A new trend is evolving in enterprise resource planning (ERP). It’s the concept of two-tier ERP, and it has become a growing area of discussion in corporate finance and information technology (IT) departments. Done well, it promises to finally attain the global visibility, standardization, and efficiency we

The global recession has affected the way all businesses operate, regardless of sector, but the underlying shift has seen a refocusing of priorities to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The software and IT services sector is ideally placed to take advantage of this change through innovation in

The 2000s were a decade of tech evolution, particularly for the cloud. The adoption of the consumer/social cloud had begun, and when broadband became the norm in the middle of the decade, the sky was the limit. With the advent of the consumer/social cloud, momentum was building

About two-thirds of mid-sized businesses are running old versions of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system—in some cases, it’s software that’s three or more versions old. This is the legacy of decades of on-premise (in-house) software deployments, incremental releases that never seemed worth the pain of a

Most manufacturing businesses have invested in technology to one extent or another to help combat some of their challenges, but primarily to increase efficiency and productivity. However, many have not yet discovered the value of having a Web presence—or they use the Web in a very limited

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