How To Conserve Resources and Enhance Customer Experience with CPQ
One of the challenges of creating highly customizable products is knowing the rules. Knowing the rules and providing accurate pricing for customers is half the battle.
Customizing products not only requires resources from your sales team, but also requires...
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Manufacturing Perspective: Overcoming The Fear of Failure to Stay Competitive
Has fear of failure held your company captive to its antiquated ERP system?
The fear of implementing a new ERP system is common and often controls a company's willingness to consider updating its Read more
Manufacturing Job Growth and the FDI Factor
Manufacturing jobs have been a hot topic in the last 12 months. Chances are, if you read any manufacturing related industry news, you have read something about reshoring, FDI, and the need for more skilled manufacturing workers.
FDI, Foreign...
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When You Need Project Management: ERP is More Than an IT Project
IT is an essential part of any manufacturing organizational structure. Their expertise provides guidance and the strength behind technical operations. Therefore, their input in any ERP Software purchase is invaluable, but should you really put...
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USA Reshoring Tops Offshoring in 2014 for First Time in 20 Years
The numbers are in for 2014, and it proved to be quite the notable year for reshoring jobs in manufacturing. It seems that for the first time in two decades America brought more jobs home than were shipped overseas.
60,000...
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How To Evaluate ERP Software – And Not Get Cinderella’d
Is your bracket busted? It's okay. I don't think anyone saw Dayton, Georgia State, or UAB coming. This is part of what makes the NCAA basketball tournament so much fun to watch. There is no guaranteed outcome, and Cinderella...
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On Time Delivery – The Domino Effect
Throughout the year, it is necessary to purchase and have gifts sent to varying parts of the country. I suspect that many of us face this every Christmas, Birthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day, and the list goes on. We...
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Courage In Business and the Urging of Imagination
Dictionary.com defines the word "Courage" in the following ways:
1. the power or quality of dealing with or facing danger, fear, pain, etc
2. the courage of one's convictions, the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
Does...
Training Issues: Study Reveals Electroshock is Preferred Over Boredom
Have you ever sat in a training class and been so bored you would rather go through electric shock treatment? Science Magazine confirms it.
In fact the class that I am thinking of was for a...
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Customer Service in Manufacturing – Trending Now #CRM
There are many things that define a good business. Often times, the definition of a good business can be subjective. However, there are certainly some technical terms that can be used to measure what is considered a good business.
There...
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