Cloud 9 ERP Solutions Blog

Efficiency is the name of the game in the ultra-competitive and rapidly evolving manufacturing industry. Manufacturers are constantly searching for ways to operate more efficiently, reduce overhead expenses, improve transparency, and boost profitability. 

Historically, manufacturing companies have tended to engage in very focused methods of producing goods. For decades, the decision to focus on a singular manufacturing method was the most pragmatic approach for many organizations. 

Investing in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is meant to make your life easier and increase the efficiency of your business. However, choosing the wrong ERP software provider for your company can actually have the opposite effect. 

If your organization is in the market for a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, there are a multitude of factors that you must consider to ensure that you get the most out of your investment. One such factor is the strength of the ERP solution’s partner ecosystem. 

With Halloween right around the corner, we thought we would share some real-life horror stories and challenges faced by our customers before moving to a modern, cloud ERP platform like Acumatica. 

In the early days of the pandemic, few, if any, business leaders could have predicted the impacts that these unprecedented events would have on the global supply chain. As supply chain disruptions first began to manifest, many hoped that these materials shortages and bottlenecks would be short-lived. 

Supply chain disruptions, especially protracted ones, can threaten business continuity and destabilize cash flow. Fortunately, your organization can overcome supply chain disruptions by leveraging the proven strategies outlined:

Acumatica and Oracle NetSuite represent two of the most well-known and widely used enterprise resource planning solutions in the world. As part of Cloud 9 ERP Solutions’ systematic comparison of Acumatica vs. Oracle NetSuite, we have analyzed several key attributes of these two ERP platforms so far including costs and implementation process. 

In the months following the outset of the 2020 pandemic, manufacturers the world over were faced with unprecedented challenges. These challenges have fueled the emergence of several trends, each of which has the potential to reshape the manufacturing industry as we know it. 

In the first installment of our series on Acumatica vs. Oracle NetSuite, we compared the implementation processes of the two ERP software solutions. In this second entry, we will turn our attention to a subject that is top of mind for all organizational leaders: costs.