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While Excel is a handy business tool (and has its time and place), the truth is that it is just not good enough for most manufacturers. You and your shop deserve better. You deserve a fully integrated ERP system that will make your business run smoother—and save you time and money.

Bottlenecks aren’t good, but they are inevitable. Watch this webinar to learn how to re-think bottlenecks to stay in control of your shop floor’s flow, increase throughput, and get more jobs out the door on time.

Though you can easily use Excel to create a database of your customers, Excel lacks several key benefits of more dedicated CRM software. A proper CRM system that is integrated and automated will allow you to better manage your leads and opportunities.

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While you can certainly create inventory tracking spreadsheets in Excel, it is not the best option for inventory management — especially for complex manufacturers.

The goal of CCPM is to identify the steps, timelines, and resources required to complete a project — to give you a roadmap that you can follow to ensure you complete more jobs on-time and on-budget.

Learn how to use the real-time data from your ERP to speed up your month-end accounting tasks to simplify your processes, reduce errors, and save you time. We’ll teach you why real-time data is so effective, and share with you industry best practices that will make your month-end faster than you ever thought.

An ERP system is one of the biggest investments that a manufacturer will ever make — but it will pay off in the long run. Though difficult to calculate, the ROI of an ERP system is immense, and manufacturers will see a significant reduction in costs after implementing an ERP.

Learn how to use your ERP system to efficiently get new hires up to speed, integrated with the rest of your team, and ready to get to work. We’ll teach you tips and techniques for using your ERP system to get this time-consuming task done quickly and effectively.

Knowing your true job costs is one of the most difficult things for a custom shop to figure out. Factoring in all of the resources used — and the complicated nature of custom manufacturing — makes it difficult for shops to figure exactly how much a job costs them.

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of materials, involving the procurement, movement and storage of raw parts and materials, as well as the movement of work-in-process inventory and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.

‍Learn about our new fully integrated module that includes everything you need to manage your service team while they are out in the field.

Rescheduling is a major problem that manufacturers, especially custom manufacturers, are constantly dealing with. Rescheduling is the process of updating an existing production schedule in response to disruptions or other changes.

ERP implementation planning isn’t always easy. But if you work hard, and have the right people around to help you, you can get a new ERP system up and running in your shop in a few months — even if you think you are too busy to do it.

CRMs are a great tool to help you manage customer relationships — including managing customer information, leads and opportunities, and deals, quotes and order status — to create better customer experiences

Uncertainty abounds, and knowing what the future will bring, and when the current COVID-19 crisis will subside, is still up in the air. The harsh reality is that uncertainty is always present, and takes various forms, whether it is the current Coronavirus crisis, trade tensions, environmental concerns, or political unrest.

E-learning allows manufacturers to access high quality learning and educational resources at lower costs — with the added benefits of being more flexible and having higher retention and completion rates. Now, more than ever before online learning is the way forward for manufacturer

Excel is a good business tool that can do a lot of different jobs and support a lot of different functions, but it’s not equipped to manage the intricacies of a custom manufacturing business. You need to replace it now.