October 4, 2019
Manufacturing Day – Creating the Future Today
Announcing the Rootstock Cloud ERP Learning Center The manufacturing industry is facing a labor shortage these days, with older skilled workers retiring and younger workers looking to other industries for their careers. Up to now, new technology-savvy workers just haven’t seen manufacturing as a viable career option, but this attitude is changing thanks in part […]
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September 13, 2019
Stalled on Legacy ERP Systems: The Costs, Risks and Missed Opportunities
Featured article by Pat Garrehy in ERP News Magazine When it comes to ERP, many manufacturers have chosen the “path of least resistance,” continuing to use the same legacy systems they’ve had for the past 15 to 30 years. Familiarity with on-premise architecture has lulled these companies into a false sense of comfort with the […]
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August 6, 2019
Cloud ERP: Avoiding ‘FrankenCloud’ and Moving from Transactional to Strategic Systems
Become a Data Master by avoiding the pitfalls of “Frankencloud”. Listen to the latest podcast from “Data in Depth” hosted by Andrew Rieser featuring Rootstock CMO Tom Brennan.
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August 1, 2019
5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Old ERP System
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are critical to running a business today. Whether you’re churning out disposable widgets or building cutting-edge satellites, having a system in place to capture and connect the data driving your operations is a foundational element of modern manufacturing.
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July 25, 2019
Trust in Salesforce and Rootstock!
Nothing is more important than the security of your data and applications. Businesses running software in the cloud must be able to trust their cloud platform to keep their data and applications safe. With technology advancing at a record pace, the threats from hackers have also advanced. It’s a constant battle to protect your data, […]
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July 18, 2019
Gartner Report Provides Roadmap for Postmodern ERP – Get Your Copy
Enterprise Resource Planning has been around for decades, starting as Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) and transitioning to today’s familiar ERP. But as the technology has slowly improved over those many, many years, two things have become crystal clear: companies are realizing great value from the concept of ERP and it’s about time for an updated […]
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July 15, 2019
Cloud Platforms Matter: 12 Reasons Why the Salesforce Platform is Great for ERP
Business leaders already know about Salesforce CRM, the world’s number one CRM platform. But what can the Salesforce Platform do for manufacturers, distributors, and supply chains using ERP? And why is the #1 Platform as a Service (PaaS) ideal for ERP? The answer to these important questions can be found on our new page Learn […]
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June 20, 2019
How to be an effective finance business partner: Insights for manufacturing CFOs from new and unique research by Gary Simon
Earlier this year, some of my Rootstock colleagues and I were having an internal discussion on how the role of the CFO was evolving into a more strategic role, serving more as an advisor to other departments in a company. We knew from our conversations with customers and prospects in senior finance roles that many […]
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June 13, 2019
South Dakota v. Wayfair: a brief update on “economic nexus” and how manufacturers should respond
Back in October, in “What Businesses Need to Know About the Supreme Court’s Wayfair Decision,” we took a look at what was happening in the wake of the Court’s June ruling that economic nexus was, under certain circumstances, enough to allow a state to collect sales tax from a company who had business transactions within […]
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June 6, 2019
In the News: Press Reviews of Rootstock’s ERP Data Framework on Salesforce
We recently introduced our ERP Data Framework, a collection of pre-configured ERP data objects that allows organizations to transfer and map legacy ERP data to the Salesforce CRM software platform more easily than conventional methods. The ERP Data Framework now gives manufacturers, distributors and supply chains the flexibility to choose from multiple Rootstock ERP solutions […]
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May 29, 2019
ERP in the Cloud Takes Manufacturers to the Next Level
For many CFOs, the term “ERP” portends a bloated and unwieldy set of manufacturing applications developed in the 1990’s for a burgeoning global economy. Indeed, FSN’s research, “The Future of the Finance Function”, highlights that 52% of finance professionals spent too much time managing and resolving basic transaction processing. But a new era of ERP, […]
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May 21, 2019
Congratulations Unionwear
ERP, CPQ Innovation Help Unionwear Win Textile Industry’s First Reshoring Award The Reshoring Initiative and SEAMS, the domestic textile manufacturing association, presented their inaugural Manufacturing Reshoring Award to Unionwear for bringing cut and sew jobs back to the USA. Unionwear’s 180 workers in Newark, NJ make baseball hats, backpacks, and other bags for the promotional […]
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