August 9, 2022
Gartner Research: How CIOs Can Avoid a Disappointing ERP Initiative
We’ve worked with hundreds of companies over the years, helping them find the right ERP solution, set realistic goals, and put the right processes in place to turn their Cloud ERP vision into a reality. Much of our customers’ success comes from using our deep experience working with manufacturing companies. It helps them avoid the […]
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August 4, 2022
Savvy Manufacturers Have Already Modernized, So Why Are You Still Waiting?
It’s difficult to look forward with confidence. Economic news is less than positive, and the analysts are increasingly pointing towards on oncoming recession. It’s more of the same from the past three years: uncertainty. But many manufacturers are still seeing some bright spots. Those with the insights to make more informed decisions have created workarounds […]
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July 21, 2022
Next-Gen Manufacturing: Building Your Manufacturing OS
Today it is typical for large enterprises to have hundreds of disparate software applications, while even small manufacturers can have dozens of applications to maintain. Consider the effort to train workers on all the different systems and do it continually as people change roles, quit, or join your company. You begin to realize that the […]
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July 18, 2022
Be Better Prepared with the Manufacturing CIO Readiness Kit
Even in the face of supply chain constraints, labor shortages, soaring costs, and more, manufacturers continue to find ways to grow and thrive in today’s world. Being a manufacturing CIO, however, puts you at the white-hot center of addressing these challenges: your role is to deploy and maintain technologies and processes that help everyone from […]
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June 13, 2022
Rootstock Selected as a “Best Vendor ERP Blog” By Softwarepath
The ERP market continues to show impressive growth, especially given the move away from multi-million-dollar on-premises deployments and to fast, flexible, and highly capable cloud-based ERP projects. It’s almost shocking to see predicted ERP market growth rates of 10% annually as manufacturers take advantage of affordable ERP technology that’s a couple of zeros less costly […]
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June 8, 2022
Rootstock Customers Merida and Matouk Profiled by The Boston Globe
New England was a veritable hotbed of manufacturing activity at the turn of the 20th Century. As the Industrial Revolution waned and industrialized manufacturing became the norm, this area churned out half of all the printed cloth in the world. With such a massive industry concentrated in a single area, it’s no wonder specialty operations […]
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June 8, 2022
The Next Level of ERP & CRM Integration: Platform-Native Software
The first two mission-critical systems to connect for your digital transformation are enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software. Why? Because they’re how you make money and how you save money! While your ERP system manages back-end operations, the CRM system is busy handling front-end, customer-facing, revenue-generating functions. In turn, they help […]
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May 31, 2022
How Salesforce Experience Cloud Will Strengthen Your Entire Supply Chain: Part 1
You’re always on the lookout for new ways to differentiate and compete, but business disruptions can put you on your heels looking for greater visibility so you can respond where others react. One obvious way is by creating tighter relationships with your customers. Nowadays, that visibility also extends to helping build and nurture relationships with […]
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May 24, 2022
Wrapped Up at Rooted·In
Rooted·In was amazing! There’s just no other word to describe Rootstock’s first-ever customer conference, which we recently held in Austin, Texas at Hotel Van Zandt. It was a great opportunity to get together with our customers, learn and share best practices, and really focus our conversations on the Manufacturing and ERP space. During the three-day […]
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May 10, 2022
The Importance of ERP in Supply Chain Management
When you think about your supply chain, what do you imagine? Are you thinking about procurement and manufacturing, or do you imagine warehousing and logistics? Are you thinking about how ERP can support your supply chain management strategy? More likely than not, you’re thinking about all of these and how they can support your production […]
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March 30, 2022
7 Critical Best Practices for Medical Device Inventory Management
Even as the economy continues to boom, medical device manufacturers face unending challenges from supply chain issues, rising materials and energy costs, and workforce constraints. Those forces are mostly out of your control. But internally, where you do have control, there are ways to increase your operational and market competitiveness. For manufacturers in this industry, […]
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February 22, 2022
Understanding Key Features & Benefits of Discrete Manufacturing ERP
What You Need to Know About Discrete Manufacturing ERP If the global pandemic has taught manufacturers anything it is that the need to scale and respond quickly with access to real-time, big data is most critical. Cloud-based discrete manufacturing systems are doing just that. So much so, that the discrete manufacturing ERP market is expected […]
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