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Digital Transformation & ERP Best Practices
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Guest Blog: U.S. Manufacturing Activity Continues to Expand — Can Your ERP System Handle It?
Recent news reports, including an article just published in the Wall Street Journal, suggest that the long industrial decline in the U.S. is in reverse. March 2012 data shows that U.S. manufacturing expanded for the 32nd straight month. Manufacturers themselves are...
ERP System Usage Audits
Once organizations have an ERP system up and running, they tend to heave a big sigh of relief and back-burner it for months, quarters or even years. It's a natural tendency: ERP implementations take time and resources away from critical areas of the business. Once the...
Lessons Learned from Best-In-Class ERP Implementations Q & A Podcast
This interview was taken from the interactive Q&A discussion following Panorama’s recent webinar: Lessons Learned from Best-In-Class ERP Implementations. The conversation is led by Eric Kimberling, President of Panorama Consulting and Nick Macera, Panorama’s...
Should an Organization Ever Build its Own ERP System?
"ERP systems cost a ton." "ERP vendors can be hard to deal with." "There is no 'perfect' ERP solution for us; all of them have major drawbacks." Truth be told: we've heard a lot of complaints about off-the-shelf ERP systems (and the companies who sell them) over the...
Five Critical Errors in ERP Implementations
On the heels of Monday's post, Five Critical Success Factors for ERP Implementations, we thought it would be pertinent also to present a list of some of the critical errors organizations (or consultants) can make in an ERP implementation. Bear in mind, that this is in...
Why Can’t the Federal Government Seem to Implement ERP Systems?
ERP implementations are always difficult, and often times even more so for government organizations. An interesting recent Computer World article discusses how the Government Accountability Agency (GAO) recently uncovered the sad state of some of the US military’s ERP...
Panorama’s ERP Blog
Welcome to the ERP Blog from Panorama Consulting, your central source for cutting-edge information and insight in the enterprise resource planning industry.
Digital Transformation and ERP Best Practices
Are you in the market for some quick tips to expedite your digital transformation or ERP implementation? Then you’ve come to the right place. As leaders in ERP consulting, Panorama is excited to provide valuable details about digital transformation and ERP best practices to those looking to expand their understanding of these vital practices and put them to use.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a huge concept that essentially boils down to software that manages some of the most important day-to-day operations of businesses, such as accounting, project management, and procurement. What makes ERP so valuable is the fact that it facilitates a flow of information between these different processes and departments for a level of consistency that would not otherwise be possible. The result is an organization whose functions are more streamlined due to the use of a central database; employees from entirely different areas of a corporation can trust that they’re relying upon the same information and following the same practices when ERP is utilized.
There are many benefits for businesses that utilize ERP, including decreased costs of operation, boosted insights, greater efficiency, and an overarching sense of collaboration which serves to improve morale and company culture, so it’s no wonder that so many organizations invest time and resources into robust ERP efforts.
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