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New Year, New ERP: 10 Reasons to Re-Evaluate Your Current ERP System Before 2020

For some businesses, the end of the year is the busy season. For the rest of us, the closing weeks of 2019 will probably be pretty quiet. It’s a great moment to think about what you want to achieve in 2020. You can get your 2020 plans organized before taking a little well-deserved time off. This period of time also offers an opportunity to take a clear-eyed look at your current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and ask yourself if it is not, at long last, time to make a change.

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Top 9 Manufacturing ERP Software Modules

Like the popular credit card commercials that ask, “What’s in your wallet?” a good ERP solution provider should ask, “What’s in your factory?” Having worked with many manufacturing customers over the years, we can confidently say that no two are quite alike. Some produce millions of items that cost a few cents each. Others produce a single product, like a locomotive or a jet engine that sells for millions of dollars. There’s make-to-order, make-to-inventory and project shops. Some manufacturers only make one thing over and over, like companies who produce thousands of miles of copper wire every day.

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Drop Shipping Management: How ERP Can Help

Drop shipping is an important part of the supply chain process for eCommerce businesses. The retailer does not need to have a product in its inventory. Instead, they can transfer customer orders to another retailer, the manufacturer or wholesaler, which then ships the order directly to its destination.

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2020 Food Industry Trends: How Cloud ERP Can Help

Looking ahead to 2020, one can see many trends shaping the food industry, beyond consumers looking for healthier, more environmentally friendly products. Consumer demand for quality and sustainability, along with increasing costs, are creating challenges for food industry organizations. An advanced cloud ERP system like Acumatica can help food businesses address some of the most significant issues looming in the near future. Here are the highlights:

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Don’t Wait: 6 Reasons to Upgrade Your ERP Before the End of the Year

An ERP migration or implementation can be somewhat disruptive. Not pursuing an upgrade comes at a high price, too, unfortunately. Continuously weighing the costs versus benefits can delay implementing the latest update. And, it’s now Q4. Hard to believe… but business applications are becoming increasingly sophisticated. If it’s been some time since your organization has upgraded its ERP system, here are six reasons not to wait.

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Intercompany Accounting Best Practices

5 Best Practices for Intercompany Accounting

Friends who go out to eat often split the check. “You ordered the chicken. You owe me ten bucks…” and so forth. Businesses have a similar process. It’s called intercompany accounting. Instead of figuring out who owes what for the chicken, but not the drinks, companies often have separate business units paying for things and accepting payment on behalf of other business units.

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The Importance of Automation in Manufacturing ERP

Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian author, wrote “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." He could have been describing the management of a manufacturing business. It’s true that all manufacturers share a number of common characteristics. They all take in components and raw materials and turn them into manufactured goods. They have inventories of parts and materials, work-in-progress and finished goods. They deal with logistics and shipping.

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What’s New in Acumatica 2019 R2

Acumatica’s second major release of 2019 (2019 R2) is launching the week of September 11. The semi-annual update to the popular cloud ERP solution contains a number of compelling new features, particular in the area of financial accounting.

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Food MRP: What Food Manufacturers Need in ERP

Food manufacturers need more than basic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. The nature of food manufacturing is such that a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) solution is essential for profitable operations. We are able to offer some insights into this requirement, based on our extensive experience working with food manufacturers. Learn more about ERP for food manufacturers.

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