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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Back-to-School Spending Brings New Purchasing Patterns and Customer Demands
Tactics Wholesalers Must Adapt to Produce More For Less While Maintaining An Attractive Profit Margin Americans plan to spend nearly 69 billion dollars this year on back-to-school necessities, including everything from apparel to footwear to electronics,...Back in the Saddle: Five Ways ERP Systems Are Helping Navigate the Economic Recovery
A significant benefit of ERP systems is that they can help forecast inventory needs to better match supply with demand and manage inventory costs. In today’s turbulent economic environment, this business benefit of enterprise software is particularly pronounced....Back in the Saddle Again: Getting Your ERP Implementation Back on Track
Unfortunately, ERP implementations still aren’t any easier than they were 15 years ago when I started in the ERP world. Despite the enterprise software industry’s best intentions to mitigate risk with cloud ERP systems, implementation accelerators, and other tools,...
Lessons Learned From the Avon ERP Implementation Failure
An ERP system is supposed to make work easier for your employees. It isn’t meant to make operations more complicated. This is a lesson that cosmetics giant Avon learned in 2013, when it officially pulled the plug on its SAP ERP integration project after four...Avoiding Bankruptcy From an ERP Implementation: Three Dirty Secrets
An ERP implementation is an incredibly expensive, complicated and risky proposition. As Panorama has seen (and detailed) over the past several years, failed implementations can even drive companies into bankruptcy (e.g., Shane Co., American LaFrance, FoxMeyer Corp.,...
