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ERP System Requirements for International Success: Part 1

global ERPGlobalization or internationalization efforts are more essential for businesses than ever before. Over the past two weeks, we have taken a closer look at the rewards and risks of globalizing your business and how enterprise resource planning or ERP software helps with this. We have also looked at success factors needed in a solution designed to withstand the pressures and growth of globalizing. To learn more about these factors, visit here. Success in globalizing is very possible for our clients and others in Toronto and throughout Canada. This success stems from ERP system capabilities that allow for internationalization. Let’s take a closer look at some minimum functionality requirements needed within an ERP software solution that lead to international success.

Multilingual

An international ERP software solution must be multilingual meaning it can easily process multilingual data including accommodating special characters used by certain languages. This includes invoice text, item descriptions, currency information, and other information that is entered across multiple site locations. Then, this information must be able to be consolidated into country-specific parameters within one system (item names, quantities, currencies, calculations, pricelists, etc.).

Accounts for Legal Requirements

Commercial, contract, and copyright laws cannot be ignored. All legal requirements must be taken into account and supported by your chosen ERP software. It should be a standard feature that currencies, tax rates, customs regulations, and tax codes are integrated. Software should meet the requirements of the company’s market and national standards.

Streamlined

ERP systems geared for international markets must offer all functionality required to manage multinational companies in a professional manner so that consolidating the foreign subsidiaries and the parent company results in processes being as streamlined as necessary. All company divisions must be covered, and isolated applications that are expensive to maintain are avoided.

Information that can be turned into Knowledge

With so many complexities, it can be easy to lose sight of all business activities and stay transparent. An ERP system that processes the vast and decentralized information coming through a business that can also convert it into knowledge that is central to maintaining quality management is key.

Integrated

Integrated information systems are operated with reporting and business tools that are easy to use. The result of true integration is real-time control that does not require complicated analysis plus transparency of all activities. Modern ERP software needs to provide statistics, evaluations, and data reports from a variety of sources that can be published on the web or integrated into external applications for current and future use.

Two ERP software offerings from IWI Consulting meet the requirements needed for internationalizing your company. They are Sage 300cloud (formerly known as Sage 300) and Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3). 


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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ERP System Factors Driving Global Business Success

Global ERPLast week, we took a look at the rewards and risks associated with companies attempting to globalize. We also discussed how ERP software can respond to these and assist in building the foundation needed to be an international business that has success. You can learn more by visiting here. Now that we know that enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are foundational to mid-sized global business success not only for your business here in Toronto or within Canada but throughout the world, let’s take a closer look at the factors that lead to this success and can assist you in finding an ERP system that fits the bill. The selection and implementation processes associated with this must be carefully prepared and planned, and these factors can help guide you in those processes.

ERP Success Factor Needed for Successful Company Globalization: Agility

Global competition is tough, and a business must be able to beat out the competition in terms of reaction time and efficiency. In essence, it is all about being agile. Agility can be achieved with ERP software that keeps up with internationalization’s functional and technical demands. Flexibility and simplicity are essential in solutions that can keep up with complex application areas and diverse business processes.

ERP Success Factor Needed for Successful Company Globalization: Suitability

As a mid-sized business in the Greater Toronto Area, you will need to be careful that your ERP system is suitable for the needs you have to become more globalized without being an overly cumbersome and expensive solution that was actually designed for large corporations with unnecessary robust functionalities that are costly to a business your size. A suitable ERP software should be modular meaning it is available in different versions. This will allow all requirements to be accurately met while also being scalable. In addition, the solution should be quick and straightforward in how it is implemented. Standard processes should be pre-configured for ease of use, and these processes should be able to be adjusted quickly and on an individual basis. User operations should be simple, straightforward, and easy to use.

ERP Success Factor Needed for Successful Company Globalization: Incorporation

For mid-sized businesses that want an international presence, they cannot waste time using a variety of separate systems. Instead, their ERP system should integrate all of the company’s management processes in a global database and give users access to this information in one standard systems. Integrating resources, information, and knowledge increases efficiency and allows for speedy reaction to new market trends.

Learn more about out IWI Consulting’s ERP system offerings: Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) here and Sage 300cloud (formerly known as Sage 300) here


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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ERP Software: Assisting in Business Internationalization

global ERP softwareThe process of international integration, also known as globalization, is increasing by the minute. For companies large and small in Toronto, in Canada, and beyond, this can be a concern and challenge with so much pressure to keep up. Mid-sized companies are no different. They, too, feel the pressure of globalization and the increased competition that results from it yet can find many opportunities that result from a globalized business world. Regardless of the size of company that you have, price pressures and fierce competition make this a difficult task. A functional and suitable enterprise resource planning or ERP software solution, such as Sage 300cloud (formerly known as Sage 300) or Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3), that can keep up over the long-term can result in a greater likelihood of success. Let’s take a look at internationalization’s rewards and risks plus how your Greater Toronto Area company can find success in globalizing using ERP software.

The Vast Rewards and Inherent Risks of Globalizing your Business

One of your many goals as a mid-sized business should be to establish and maintain an international presence, and this comes with many benefits and potential rewards. New sales markets abroad can be tapped by demonstrating high innovative capacity on an international level. Trading and sales sources increase with foreign markets as well. In addition, global expansion can give access to qualified and specialized knowledge plus more affordable personnel.

As with anything, the benefits don’t come without risks and challenges. The attractive opportunities offered by internationalization also come with the danger of failing in the expansion process due to how fast globalization happens. The aggressive nature of global business markets and the complexities involved in going global are other risk factors that need to be watched.

The Assistance you Need in Internationalizing can be found within an ERP System

In order to increase the chances for rewards and success while mitigating the potential risks while establishing an international presence, you need a solid foundation built upon ERP software. An ERP system increases transparency, manages growth, reduces costs, and streamlines the organization’s processes. It also improves cooperation across countries, subsidiaries, corporate divisions, and employees. Within an ERP software’s overarching system, management processes can be integrated across planning, production, and financial realms.

These capabilities and functionalities found in ERP software create the necessary building blocks in creating a successful globalized business. IWI Consulting offers ERP system options to meet your company’s needs for increasing their international presence and having success in going global. Learn more about two solutions we offer here at IWI Consulting by clicking on the each solution: Sage 300cloud (formerly known as Sage 300) and Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3).

Download our whitepaper “Success on an international scale: what an ERP system can offer” for further information about the rewards and risks of internationalization and how ERP software can be the foundation you need to successfully lead your company into the global business world.


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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Modern ERP Software is Key to Innovation and Growth

future growth modern erp softwareMany challenges face today’s manufacturers, and this is true of our clients in the Greater Toronto Area as well. Internal pressures to improve automation, trade, profitability, and streamlining are difficult enough. Added pressures from economic issues and global markets, that are transforming processes and demands, make it even harder to achieve success. The benefits outweigh the challenges, though, through a streamlined, real-time, interconnected, and integrated system that leads to improved profitability and performance. To learn more, visit here. Taking it a step beyond profitability and performance is also necessary as your manufacturing firm looks to the future and strives to be creative and innovative in the constant quest for growth and development in Canada and beyond. How is this achieved?

Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) is a system that can provide the functionality and interconnectedness needed to not just survive but to thrive and grow. With an ERP system like this that is built on modern technological platforms, it can leverage service-oriented architectures and standardized protocols to deliver seamless application connectivity with hardware and software, as well as the prospect of pooling developments. It embeds technology for seamless uptake and more effective use of tools. With superior efficiency, enhanced reporting tools, electronic management of documents, collaborative technologies for data sharing and transparency, and graphical representations of commonly-used processes all being features of the software, productivity is promoted. Growth can be achieved because the system is doing so much for you that you can focus on where you want to go from here and how you want to grow.

Here are some of the areas in which ERP software helps with application connectivity, power, and flexibility to aid in growth:

  • Purchasing- quotes, orders, invoices
  • Sales- delivery notes, invoices, contracts
  • Production- quality reports, technical documentation
  • Human Resources- contracts of employment, social security statements, pay slips
  • Accounting and Finance- financial reports, accounting records, online tax returns
  • After-sales- callout reports, orders, invoices

Another important feature of a modern ERP solution is its usability. With a system that is intuitive, the learning curve in using it is reduced, and extra support and training is not as necessary. Employees are encouraged instead of scared to adopt and use new tools and can use them effectively with little extra effort. These new technologies make life easier and improve working conditions.

With so many features and an ease of use, Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) is accelerating the process of learning and using new systems so much that the tools are speeding company growth. Modernized information systems, new solutions, web-based functions, mobile functionality, and other features of modern ERP are making it easier than ever to respond to growth and have a competitive and innovative advantage. To learn more about Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3), visit here.


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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Improving Productivity and Performance with Sage X3

profitability with sage emOver the past two weeks, we have taken a closer look at internal and external challenges that face manufacturers today. These include system and process challenges within a manufacturing firm and the challenges that are caused by the current economic times plus the quick and drastic change from a localized to a globalized marketplace. To learn more about these economic and global challenges, visit here. Although the challenges are vast, they are certainly not impossibilities, and success is very possible for our clients and others in Toronto and throughout Canada. This success stems from ERP system capabilities that allow for improved productivity that also add value. One such solution is Sage X3. Let’s take a closer look at what success looks like and how Sage X3 helps achieve it.

There’s no doubt (based on current challenges) that manufacturers need to increase productivity and keep ahead of the competition. These can be achieved through information systems and ERP software combined to not just meet operational needs but to streamline information technology (IT) infrastructure and deliver support. This requires a switch from using a variety of management systems that have been pieced together and have varying levels of technological capability. Systems that have been pieced together often face issues that include interfacing, data traceability, reliability, system maintainability, and repository consistency.

Instead, an integrated solution that streamlines processes is needed that also offers broader functionality. With this integration plus the option to include add-ons that are specialized, Sage X3 offers a complete package that hasn’t been offered in traditional ERP systems. This end-to-end ERP solution incorporates functionalities that streamline, control business processes, produce superior quality product, and improve customer satisfaction.

Here are some of the many benefits of these modern ERP systems:

  • Quicker product development and time to market
  • Production increases without cost increases
  • Control, traceability, and inventory management compliance that guarantee higher quality
  • Data that satisfies lawful requirements via audit trails and document management
  • Enhanced forecasting and better management of the supply chain
  • Improved customer service with order process enhancement, automated delivery, and customer interaction

In addition to these benefits of an integrated system, another benefit to productivity and performance through Sage X3 is its ability to share real-time information across users, areas of expertise, and the supply chain as a whole. This information sharing can extend to partner companies and international groups to share standard data, group company disposals, financial reporting and statements, and financial traceability. This allows manufacturing firms to truly keep tabs on their stock, to forecast, and to trace data across extended enterprises and across a company’s entire ecosystem.

With Sage X3, the sharing of information is interconnected and flows freely between all constituents while improving database synchronization through collaborative systems. These include EDI, cloud-enabled connectivity, portal sharing and platforms, and trading hubs. Sage X3 can virtually do it all!


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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Facing Economic and Global Challenges with an ERP System

portfolio6Last week, we took a look at some of the challenges facing manufacturers in an ever-changing business world and if current ERP software is up to the challenge of handling them. You can learn more by visiting here. The challenges addressed previously mainly pertained to what is going on within a manufacturing firm itself, including what we see is true for our clients in Toronto and throughout Canada, but many outside factors and general trends also create challenges for manufacturers. Let’s take a closer look at economic and global factors that also present challenges to today’s manufacturers like you.

Economic Challenges:

  • Achieving a competitive advantage as a manufacturing firm with increased quality of products and services which ends up limiting the range of products able to be offered or that can only be offered to a certain niche or narrow market based on costs
  • Despite margins narrowing, maintaining a solid bottom line that can handle rising costs and an ever-increasing number of lower-cost manufacturers throughout the world that are now competitors
  • Enhancing speed of response, flexibility, and efficiency in order to meet expectations brought on by customers with regards to lead-times, service quality, and commitments

These economic challenges are a result of large-scale fierce competition that has reached a global level and is a response to ever-intensifying customer requirements and expectations that come in response to the economic crises we’ve all faced over the past several years.

Global Challenges:

  • Globalized trade and international development necessitating the need for companies to be more clued into different rules and tools if they want to grow
  • Companies needing to implement global production processes in order to keep up with distribution and extended production chains
  • Shifting consumer behavior because of access to not just local but global products
  • Overall technical progress causing shrinking product lifecycles because of constantly evolving and quickly accessible, new technologies
  • Changing legislation and increasing environmental compliance standards that need to be met but require extra checks and controls throughout the production and shipping process
  • Outsourcing production while diversifying products, extending sales channels, and furthering options for customers who have ample choices in a global world
  • Improving marketing and customer relations while implementing multi-channel distribution systems to reach customers worldwide

Design, production, trade, and logistics have all been transformed by global access to goods and a business world that is more globalized and less localized than ever. This presents challenges like never before.

With so many challenges to face with regards to the current economic situation and globalized market, you need an ERP system that can truly respond. Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) is one such system that can transform your processes as you transform into a globally competent and economically responsive manufacturing company. It is available in 60 countries and supports a wide range of languages and legislative systems that can help your company cope with complex processes and deployments across international sites. Learn more about Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) here.


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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ERP Software that Responds to Manufacturing Challenges

Manufacturing and ERPThere’s no denying that the world is changing. We live in an age where changes are occurring at such a rapid rate that it is hard to keep up. Because of the influence of technology and global markets, keeping up with it all can be difficult. The business world of Canada and beyond is faced with pressures like never before to respond to competition, to global trends, and to the ongoing evolution of business and technological practices.

Have you taken time to consider these changes and the potential impact they could have on your business strategy? Have you created a plan to respond to changes and to keep up with the ongoing evolution of Information Technology and business processes? Have you figured out how you can respond to change and growth while making sure you continue to create customer and client value? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, you’ll want to put some time and energy into answering these questions.

After you’ve created your plan based on the questions above, you’ll need to evaluate your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to see if it can not only handle the growth and change but also foster the performance and innovation needed to carry your business into the future. Let’s take a closer look at the challenges you are up against as manufacturers in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond in an ever-changing world to be sure your ERP system is up to the challenge of responding and keeping a competitive advantage in performance, innovation, and development.

Current Process and Discrete Manufacturing Firm Challenges:

  • Automating the production, picking, planning, and analysis stages of manufacturing processes to safeguard profitability
  • Giving staff the needed resources and flexible skills to respond to situations as they arise
  • Finding ways to trade, produce, and supply products not just nearby but to a global market
  • Sensing and responding to client needs with value-added services and innovative practices/ tools
  • Needing to raise the bar on operational efficiency and productivity
  • Responding to demand with streamlined scheduling and manufacturing
  • Having true insight into profitability and business performance
  • Minimizing inventory and monitoring margins effectively
  • Guaranteeing the quality needed to satisfy customers in terms of both products and services provided

These challenges are vast and overarching, but there is a system capable of handling all of them.  Sage ERP X3 is a solution that gives manufacturers a complete response to the vast needs of businesses. These include sales, production, logistics, services, finance, customer relations, human resources, and management needs. Learn more about Sage EM (formerly known as Sage X3) here.


Our small and dedicated team specializes in helping small-to-medium size Canadian businesses and non-profits select and adapt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management (HRMS) and IT services. With IWI’s 15 years in business and 100 plus years of combined experience, IWI has helped hundreds of manufacturing, distribution, and financial service companies gain efficiency, grow, and lower their operating costs.

With the unique combination of industry knowledge and diverse technology expertise, IWI provides cost-effective solutions to help clients gain a competitive edge.  As a Sage business partner, servicing the Greater Toronto Area, we support evaluation and implementation of operations and finance systems to optimize technology, ensuring high return on investment with a quick and painless transition to new software.

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Get To Know What You Don’t Know With Business Intelligence

You know the business is doing well when products are getting out the door to happy customers. Sales figures may look good and your sales team indicates that they are busy meeting with new prospects and satisfying existing customers. However, it’s what you don’t know that can hurt your bottom line. Are you just busy or are you profitable? Get to know what you may not know with the built-in business intelligence offered in Sage® ERP.

Cursory indicators may suggest that business operations are productive; however, what you may not see is what can hurt you. Bad news does not always travel fast and you may not learn that cash flow is being eaten up by inventory or your warehouse is filling up with slow-moving items that may soon become obsolete. There is a lot going on within your organization and it can be a challenge to keep tabs on key performance indicators, especially when data is spread across several specialty software programs. In order to get the accurate data you need to make the prudent business decisions that drive growth, you need the visibility offered within a robust, integrated business solution like Sage ERP.

You can manage all of your core business data within Sage ERP. This single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution offers a centralized location for financial data, supply chain and inventory, manufacturing and distribution operations, and human resources and payroll activities. All of your core data can be easily entered and accessed from this one business solution. In addition, Sage ERP offers powerful business intelligence that puts key metrics at your fingertips in an easy-to-read chart and dashboard format. You can monitor sales figures, inventory levels, cash flow, and other key performance indicators in real time, which supports your ability to respond faster to changing situations. You can also identify trends in your data, such as which products are selling well and which are becoming obsolete. Then you can use that insight to optimize inventory and maintain profit goals.

Get to know what you don’t know with the insightful business intelligence offered in Sage ERP. Contact IWI Consulting Group to learn more about using Sage ERP to get the insight you need to remain profitable, not just busy.

By IWI Consulting Group, Sage Authorized Partner in Canada

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Changing Trends for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

As the temperatures drop and consumers bring out their sweaters and jackets for the cooler weather, they also start to crave comfort foods – swapping out chilled drinks for warm ones and light meals for hearty ones.  Food and beverage manufacturers are gearing up for changing trends which is much easier when you have the support and insight offered in a robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

Seasonal changes can have an influence on your product sales and, after some time and experience, you may notice patterns or trends as to when you may need to make changes in marketing efforts or production schedules.  However, health crazes and other trends can also impact product sales.  If you aren’t tapped into social media or have the ability to monitor real-time sales, then you may not notice a steady decrease or a spike in sales which can either lead to an overstocked warehouse or unhappy customers and sales losses.

Food and beverage businesses need to be able to respond quickly to changes in customer needs and demands – seasonal or otherwise.  Replacing disparate specialty solutions for a more powerful ERP solution can provide greater control and insight throughout your business, which you can use to respond faster to new opportunities or changes.  You can manage your entire business from a single, integrated ERP solution, such as Sage® ERP, including finances, supply chain and inventory, manufacturing and distribution operations, and other core business processes.  Sage ERP offers real-time visibility into inventory, sales, and customer preferences.  You can use this data to discover trends with product sales by region, season, or other variables.  The more you learn about customer trends, the faster you can make adjustments to procurement activities, manufacturing schedules, and product promotions.

Sage ERP also offers the traceability and transparency needed for governmental regulations including labeling and packaging requirements.  You can track records throughout all of your materials purchased and with suppliers; as well as add time-saving automation and consistency to compliance reporting.  You can also use EDI, RFID, and other electronic tracking to keep close tabs on raw materials and finished products.

Seasons are changing, which can influence production. Are you ready?  Contact IWI Consulting Group for more information about getting prepared for seasonal and other trending changes with ERP.

By IWI Consulting Group, Sage ERP Partner out of Canada

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Keep Up The Pace In The Food & Beverage Industry

The food and beverage industry is part of a fast-paced marketplace with changing regulations, customer demands, and subject to seasonal and other fluctuations.  Keep up with these changes by deploying a business management solution that can provide real-time insight throughout your enterprise and with industry trends.

Your business needs to be flexible and able to respond quickly to changing situations in the food and beverage marketplace.  Entry-level or specialty software programs are often inflexible and data can be difficult to find.  In addition, although you may be able to monitor basic financial data, you are unlikely to find true value in your numbers in order to be confident in your price structures and profit margins.  In order to keep up with competitors, you need an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution such as Sage® ERP.

Sage ERP offers the flexibility that your food and beverage business needs right out of the box.  This fully integrated ERP solution can be deployed quickly and requires minimal training because it is easy to learn and use.  Specific manufacturing features offered in Sage ERP can be further tailored to specific operations.

  • You can manufacture items for make-to-stock or customize items for make-to-order.  Once a customer order is entered in Sage ERP, an automatic notification is sent to purchasing to check inventory and make procurement decisions to prepare for that order.
  • Notifications are also sent to scheduling to prepare the manufacturing floor.
  • Traceability and visibility into batches and lots can improve quality control, as well as maintain compliance with allergen, labeling, and other regulatory requirements.
  • Be confident in the products heading to the marketplace while you are also prepared to initiate a speedy recall should a problem arise.

Sage ERP is fully integrated from the front office to the back warehouse.  You can manage data for your entire business including financials, inventory and supply chain, manufacturing and distribution operations, and other core processes.  As a result, you can monitor pricing, values, and access the details needed to determine both productivity and profitability. Built in business intelligence can support efforts to further streamline operations, boost sales and profit margins, as well as drive growth.

You need to be able to act fast in the food and beverage industry.  Contact IWI Consulting Group to learn more about replacing inadequate technology with an ERP solution that can help you keep up the pace.

By IWI Consulting Group, Sage Authorized Partner in Canada

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