Regardless of the industry or revenue, manufacturer’s sales departments face the same challenges; from shorter product life cycles, increasing customer demands to increasing process complexity. This while distributors are in the same uncertain economic climate. It’s clear that they must do everything they can to maximize sales.
Jan Jaap is within Steltix responsible for Sales and Marketing organisation in the Benelux , Germany and the United Kingdom.
Steltix is a customer centric and quality driven European provider of IT based solutions enabling companies and institutions to increase their business performance, reducing costs and eliminating risks.
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For years now, manufacturing products have had to be brought to market faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. More and more players in manufacturing are opting for a different approach and are starting to sell services instead of products. But what is the impact of this 'servitization' on industrial manufacturing?
The chemical and pharmaceutical industry makes innovative products, but businesses are often operated in a traditional way. Efficiency, safety and being able to respond rapidly to the outside world are more important than ever. System and chain integration, big data and the cloud are preconditions for meeting modern-day demands.
Without raw materials there would be no end products, and without raw materials the global economy would grind to a halt. The prices of commodities are highly volatile and still relatively low. An epidemic could break out without warning, or an armed conflict might suddenly flare up. The prices are at the mercy of constantly changing direct and indirect factors. Commodity traders are responsible for obtaining as many insights into price-determining factors as possible. This is possible with the right tools.
The wholesale industry is under considerable pressure worldwide. Retailers and consumers are demanding increasingly short delivery times and margins are under pressure. At the same time, business growth is stagnating and wholesalers are under threat of being forced out of business by their former partners in the chain. With the erosion of the revenue model, innovation is the only way to survive.
Consumers are clamoring for quality products that are healthier and fresh. Furthermore, food safety is under constant scrutiny and margins are under pressure. How can food and drink manufacturing companies get the margins under control under these circumstances? And how can they keep innovating? The answer appears to lie in economies of scale, big data and supply chain integration.
It is to be considered that the process of globalization tends to become deeper in the coming decades, given the context of greater ease of communication of brands and products provided by the Internet, allowing easy access to the commercialization of goods and services anywhere on the planet, but also by the expansion of the logistics infrastructure, which is increasingly efficient and accessible. In this whitepaper we will discuss the challenges in ERP Implementation projects for global companies
In the real estate sector, processes must run securely, flawlessly and be traceable for audits. An ERP allows a real estate company to operate more efficiently, flexibly and modern with a single version of the truth. Efficiency can be greatly boosted by integrating finances with other administrative functions and automating the workflow.
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market continues to shift rapidly as the adoption of cloud-based systems increases and vendors add capabilities to an already competitive landscape. Nucleus’s 2016 ERP Value Matrix reflects the shift to cloud as vendors are making large investments in their cloud offerings, with mobile functionality, internet of things (IoT), and embedded analytics as the table stakes. Download the complete Nucleus report and read more about the improvements included in Tools 9.2 Update 1 and Oracle JD Edwards commitment to invest in helping their customers keep pace and leverage the latest technologies.
Treasury has increasingly become an important role in manufacturing, trading and distribution companies. Treasury departments use data from bank applications and data from ERP applications like JD Edwards. This article describes some practical examples on how you can use JD Edwards data to set up and support your treasury activities.
Companies are under pressure to respond to customer demand ever more rapidly. Whether in wholesale, industry, construction, engineering, food, or consumer packaged goods, ERP is the cornerstone of an organization. And that foundation has to be adaptable to the constantly changing technological requirements imposed on the business. The ERP has to link up with an application landscape that, these days, is concentrated increasingly in the cloud. How do you ensure a future-proof ERP and how can organizations take their first steps toward cloud computing?
For a very long time, enterprise software was hard to use, hard to look at, and even harder to understand. Green screens and clunky interfaces were the norm. But the software world has changed. Enterprise users are demanding that their software be intuitive, functional, and even pleasing to look at. Meet the newest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software meeting the demands of an evolving marketplace.
Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution: Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing. Cyber-physical technology advances are driving how information is captured and used in manufacturing and how consumers interact with the products they buy.
Commodity trading companies are highly subject to change. Staying in the game and remaining profitable as a commodity trading company means business processes have to be fully supported by automated systems. In this whitepaper, we take a look at the challenges for commodity trading companies, which solutions are available now and what a fully integrated ERP/CTRM solution can do for you.
Technical developments are coming thick and fast, and the world of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is no exception. The switch from on-premises data centers to the cloud is one of the most significant changes. In the white paper Freedom of choice is an asset with JD Edwards in the cloud you can read about how flexibly JD Edwards can be used in your current and future IT infrastructure.
In today’s world, customers and companies are more demanding than ever. This requires an ERP system that is flexible and future-proof. ERP is the financial and logistical cornerstone of companies, so it has to be state-of-the-art. The strength of JD Edwards ERP is that it employs the most modern technology in the heart of the application landscape. It is fully open to cloud and other available applications and technologies.
The emergence of Cloud ERP solutions is likely to change the ERP software market significantly. In order to assess the scale of these changes a comprehensive study of the ERP software market has been done recently. Are you curious how Cloud will change the ERP software market? Read this blog and this recent research results and find out.
A new ERP solution promises efficient chain management, cost reduction and increased flexibility. Unfortunately, however, the results often fall short of these promises due to an unsuccessful ERP implementation. In this short guide you will find 8 best practices that will make an ERP implementation successful for your organisation.
A new ERP solution promises efficient chain management, cost reduction and increased flexibility. Unfortunately, however, the results often fall short of these promises. A poor ROI is often due to mistakes made during implementation. By reading the white paper 10 pitfalls of ERP implementation, you can increase your chances of maximising your return and achieving the desired improvement in quality with a new ERP solution.
Where a traditional ERP system doesn't fit into the modern day organisation, a new age ERP system can offer companies in the manufacturing industry more flexibel and more room for innovation. An investment in a completely new modern ERP system or the upgrading/expanding of the current system will be essential. But in the long run these investments will not only reduce overall cost but will also increase your time-to-market. In this whitepaper we will discuss the 7 biggest ERP trends and developments that are currently relevant to the manufacturing industry.
This white paper focuses on how Oracle JD Edwards applications provide an integrated Internet of Things platform which will revolutionize the industrial world by increasing operating effectiveness and revenue while at the same time reducing costs and helping to address compliance related needs.This white paper will introduce you to the Internet of Things and suggest how you can start implementing this exciting technology today to further enhance your organization’s business process.
Mobile technologies have matured. Organizations are increasingly discovering new ways to use mobility in their business strategies.Mobile-savvy consumers expect a seamless interaction with the company, across multiple platforms with powerful, innovative and attractive mobile applications. A policy for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Corporate Owned Personally Enabled (COPE) has been fully integrated in most organizations. This conveys the power consumers have when organizing enterprise mobility. Mobility is unbound productivity! Read more in this whitepaper.
Chief Financial Officers in middle class organizations face the same challenges as their colleagues in larger companies. CFOs of mid-large organizations are expected to have tight control over their financial management and all have information about maintaining their business performance. They are the strategic heart of the organization and IT investments are of great importance to them. This document displays a brief overview of different visions of CFOs on the changes in the role of CFO, including: the challenges and the strategies they use in their business to offer a successful future.
By using business data in intelligent business processes, companies can excel to new heights. Want to know more about business intelligence solutions that can help your organization? Download the white paper here without obligation 'Driving Innovation Through Analytics.
Companies can achieve many benefits from cloud computing and specifically infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Cloud computing has matured into a sophisticated model for corporations. When designing a cloud architecture infrastructure, multiple design methodologies are available. The choice of the appropriate method is of crucial importance in which the integration and optimization of components is the key to success.
Omdat fabrikanten en distributeurs een bredere variatie en goede kwaliteit van producten moeten leveren staan deze organisaties steeds meer onder druk. Met JD Edwards EnterpriseOne kunt u complexere supply chain managen en vergroot u uw winst. Daarnaast is het ook belangrijk dat u verschepingskosten en leveringen worden versnelt met een geïntegreerd transport management. Met de JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applicatie krijgt u de mogelijkheid om een betere controle en overzicht te creëren over uw supply chain prestaties. In dit document staat omschreven dat JD Edwards EnterpriseOne bij veel bedrijven binnen de consumptiegoederenindustrie succesvol heeft uitgepakt.
Regardless of the industry or revenue, manufacturer’s sales departments face the same challenges; from shorter product life cycles, increasing customer demands to increasing process complexity. This while distributors are in the same uncertain economic climate. It’s clear that they must do everything they can to maximize sales. In this white paper you will learn more about Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing.
In this report you can read about that in spite of major investments infinancial reporting systems, large organizations still observe rising costs, suffer from ineffective data management, and miss certain reporting. Would you like to review the entire research and want to know more about the solutions to the financial professional? Feel free to download the whitepaper ‘The Challenges of Corporate Financial Reporting’.
For many organizations it can be challenging and expensive to integrate a business intelligence solution with ERP systems. With powerful, pre-built business intelligence applications from Oracle, it may be possible for organizations to easily deploy and integrate a business intelligence solution.
Whether organizations are deploying modernization of a new application or existing business services, selecting and implementing a solution architecture that performs optimally and meet service level agreement (SLA) can be a challenging process. An optimized solution needs to be balanced between technical requirements and business needs like budget requirements, performance and reliability requirements and scalability.
Change is a big part of business. - It is what drives businesses forward. However, the last few decades have seen unprecedented changes and fluctuations. Under these circumstances it is important that system architectures are malleable and yet robust. This enables business processes and information easily and quickly.
