The nature of business process mapping is to streamline the daily operation, show how efficient the firm is in utilising its resources and creating profits. The process enables the business to be proactive in responding to changing demands, avoid disruption (which as a result could create a culture of ad hoc business handling), and further enhance cross-functional collaboration.

Both enterprises and individuals have to process some kind of data every day, whether it is a short message, a notification, a piece of news, statistics, a video, etc. If we accumulate all the data acquired in a month, the amount guarantees to shock anyone.

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When it comes to selecting a suitable ERP system for your business, the researching and reviewing process tends to be lengthy and extensive. Therefore, Feedspot recently compiled a list of 30 powerful ERP blogs in order to help ease such process, and TRG, the only ERP blog from Vietnam, was delighted to be ranked at the 29^th place.

What does a manufacturer need in order to push their cutting-edge technology to the market? The answer is a “sexy ERP system”, according to Alexander Schey – Vantage Power’s co-founder. But what is a sexy ERP system?

As cloud computing continues to mature, ERP vendors are turning their focus to delivering more industry-specific features, according to the recent 2017 ERP Technology Value Matrix Report by Nucleus Research.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) has long had the reputation of being a highly secure and reliable ERP solution, which can easily be adapted to suit the daily manufacturing and distributing needs. The latest release (version 9.01) has brought even more advanced and user-friendly functionalities, which in turns can greatly improve productivity and customer experience. Plus, the solution can be set up on-premises or in the cloud.

ERP has been the backbone of manufacturing software for more than 25 years since it evolved from the predecessor - MRP (manufacturing resource planning). Such long history also means there is a certain resistance among manufacturers against dramatic changes in ERP technologies and deployment models. Still, many have come to realise that legacy ERP systems simply cannot keep pace with today’s competitiveness and customer demands.

According to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for Second Half 2013, email was the fourth most commonly used transmission vector by malicious infection attempts on Microsoft computers during that period. This includes malware-infected emails and phishing emails.

It seems increasingly clear that cloud computing is the future of ERP. For businesses, the transition to the cloud is as much about financial benefits as it is about new technologies. This is especially true for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). 

There are big gaps between what the customer is expecting at the end of an ERP project and what the project is implemented to be aligned as outcomes. Why is it happening although the project is implemented in aligning with the project’s goals and objectives? 

There are many reasons to explain why it could happen. However, there is a single answer which is always absolutely correct for any project. It is that the project is implemented and evaluated as cut-off deliverables, not as on-going outcomes which are developed across milestones of key & incremental benefits upon the pre-defined benefit road map.