May 23, 2023
Manufacturing Tech Survey Results: You Can’t Save Your Way to Growth
It’s an old adage that you “can’t save your way to prosperity” or “cut your way to growth.” But in today’s uncertain and volatile world, there seems to be plenty of watercooler talk in manufacturing about reducing investments and taking a wait-and-see approach to success. Sure, manufacturing has always been a conservative industry. So, does […]
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May 10, 2023
Balancing Inventory & Supply Chain Management with ERP for Manufacturing
The complexities of balancing inventory and supply chain management are enormous. Each element offers its own challenges, but they must also work in concert to help manufacturers meet demand effectively. Adding to the challenges are labor shortages in manufacturing and ongoing supply chain constraints across the globe. What can help, however, is an ERP system […]
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May 8, 2023
Manufacturing KPIs: How to Determine the Most Important Ones
Manufacturing is a data intensive business and the best companies use all the information at their disposal to plan their work and work their plan. That plan, better described as their strategy, relies on setting targets or goals and measuring the organizational contributions from all corners of the business to manage progress toward attaining those […]
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April 28, 2023
10 Features to Look for in Manufacturing Inventory Management Software
Selecting an inventory management software for your manufacturing enterprise is not a decision to be made lightly. To make your decision easier, we’ve provided a list of the ten most important features to ensure are present before considering a manufacturing inventory software. What is Manufacturing Inventory? The word “inventory” in manufacturing has a few separate […]
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April 20, 2023
Why Cloud Modernization is a Must for 21st-Century Manufacturers
With its dependency on legacy and often decades-old equipment, controllers, and systems, the industrial manufacturing sector has been slow to embrace the complete digital transformation undertaken by other industries. But that is changing. Hastened by the pandemic, the arrival of Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has brought a new urgency for industrial manufacturing […]
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April 17, 2023
Built to Serve: ERP and Field Services on the Salesforce Platform
Manufacturers need powerful tools to stay competitive and meet the demands of their customers, while doing more with less. While strong individually, when Rootstock Manufacturing ERP and Salesforce Field Services (SFS) are united, they provide a host of benefits that allow companies to streamline and scale their operations, improve efficiency, enhance customer service and boost […]
Read Time: 12 min
April 13, 2023
Best Practices for Developing a Two-Tier ERP Consolidation Strategy
Does your three-letter acronym for enterprise resource planning, or ERP, end with an “s”? If so, you’re a manufacturer on track to right-size those ERPs with an ERP consolidation strategy or maybe even a two-tier ERP strategy. As any manufacturing business grows, it’s bound to open new facilities, expand to new regions, and bring on […]
Read Time: 16 min
March 6, 2023
BACA Systems: “Our stock-out rates decreased 70% with Rootstock”
Welcome to a new blog series profiling Rootstock customers: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our customers. This series intends to showcase outcomes that our customers have experienced after digitally transforming their businesses. Hear them talk about how they have come to rely on […]
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February 22, 2023
4 Key Takeaways from the webinar “State of ERP 2023: Future of ERP for Manufacturers”
As business strategies for the new year emerge, so do challenges facing manufacturing organizations- from technology adoption to macro-economic conditions, there is a large amount of uncertainty ahead in 2023. That’s why we asked experts Camil Bourbeau, Partner at Deloitte Digital, and David Stephens, CEO of Rootstock, about their outlook for the year in our […]
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February 14, 2023
Equipter: “We’ve grown 30% year over year since implementing Rootstock”
Welcome to a new series of weekly blogs profiling Rootstock customers: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our customers. This series intends to showcase outcomes that our customers have experienced after digitally transforming their businesses. Hear them talk about how they have come to rely […]
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February 6, 2023
How to Improve Supply Chain Demand Planning
Best Practices for Improving Supply Chain Demand Planning The supply chain is critical to ensuring manufacturers have the raw materials, components, and other supplies necessary to produce finished goods. But the materials and widgets are only the tangible elements critical to manufacturing processes. Manufacturers need to also ensure procurement, logistics, warehousing, AR/AP (accounts receivable/accounts payables), […]
Read Time: 11 min
February 3, 2023
Nanophase: Faster, More Visibility Than Ever Before
Welcome to the first in a series of weekly installments of a new Rootstock blog series: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our customers. This series intends to showcase outcomes that our customers have experienced after digitally transforming their businesses. Hear them talk about how […]
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