Manufacturing

6 Challenges When Using AI in Manufacturing and How an ERP Can Help

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making headlines for months. AI can improve aspects of many industries, including manufacturing. AI has the potential to enhance efficiency, revolutionize production processes, and drive innovation. However, implementing AI in your manufacturing business comes with challenges. To meet these challenges, you’ll need a good ERP in your manufacturing operation. To …

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6 Ways Sage 100 Can Increase Manufacturers’ Efficiency

Running a warehouse and distributing products is a monumental challenge. Doing it in the most efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality way can often seem impossible. Without a centralized system for your data or streamlined and automated processes, your customer and employee satisfaction, efficiency, and profitability will not reach their full potential. Luckily, with the right tools, …

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How a Manufacturing ERP System Solves Common Industry Challenges

A manufacturing ERP system can resolve many common industry challenges faced by manufacturers of all sizes. Manufacturers continually struggle with razor-thin margins, accurate demand forecasting, efficient resource planning, warehouse and inventory management, and supply chain management. The right manufacturing ERP system can solve these challenges and add additional functionality to improve customer communications, staffing management, …

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Manufacturing Software Solutions for Industry 4.0

By now, you’ve probably heard of the term Industry 4.0 and the many manufacturing software solutions aligned with it. Industry 4.0 often comes with buzzword baggage—agile, digital transformation, automation, CX. We’ll unpack some of what Industry 4.0 means and how your manufacturing company may already be in the midst of this exciting time. What Is …

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Reshoring: New Manufacturing Challenges

For decades, one of the major manufacturing challenges globally has been the need for labor. Factories require workers to manage machinery, equipment, supplies, shipping, and other critical tasks. And, for many years, American manufacturers frequently turned to offshoring, or shifting some portions of their supply chain offshore, to reduce costs. Now, however, with the effects …

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Acumatica Manufacturing Offers Excellent Support for Multi-Modal Manufacturing

Acumatica manufacturing offers an excellent enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform from which to manage multi-modal manufacturing operations. With the recent surge of interest among manufacturers in a multi-modal approach, some are questioning whether having more than one ERP may be helpful. We’ve explored that option and recommend sticking with one flexible ERP system, such as …

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Best Practices for Manufacturing Quality Control

Each industry develops its own manufacturing quality control best practices. Often, these are guided by specific industry standards or requirements. However, there are certain best practices for quality control that can be applied to nearly every industry including process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, and more. The following five offer a rubric by which many manufacturers eager …

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Acumatica Manufacturing Checks All the Right Boxes for Instrument and Medical Device Manufacturers

Acumatica Manufacturing Edition offers an outstanding solution to help manufactures track and manage many aspects of their businesses. For instrument and medical device manufacturers, Acumatica Manufacturing may be the solution they’ve been looking for to many common industry problems. Here’s how Acumatica helps solve those problems—and more. Unique Challenges for Instrument and Medical Device Manufacturing …

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Manufacturers, It’s Time for Digital Transformation

Why digital transformation is essential for your company to thrive Digital transformation can help manufacturers in many ways, but often manufacturing lags behind other industries in the adoption of technologies that could increase profits. A January 2022 paper from Deloitte states, “Acceleration in digital technology adoption could bring operational efficiencies to scale.” The paper goes on …

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Why You Should Consider Cloud ERP for Job Shop Manufacturing

Job shop scheduling often gets overlooked when it comes to cloud ERP. Some job shop manufacturing businesses feel cloud ERP is “too much” for their business. These companies manage their accounting, finance, and inventory using spreadsheets and office productivity software instead of moving to an enterprise resource planning solution. What if we told you there’s …

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