21st Century ERP

This is the 2^nd part of a three-part blog series titled, “21st Century ERP,” which consists of the following posts:

1. Six Signs You Don’t Have a Modern ERP Solution
2. 21^st Century ERP Benefits
3. Who in Your Business Would Benefit the Most from 21^st Century ERP?

Poll: 3 Primary Benefits of New ERP

We recently conducted a poll of both Macola customers as well as prospects and asked this question: “What area of ‘New ERP’ would bring the most benefit to your business?”

We found the results to be very interesting, as over 60% claimed that the greatest benefit of ERP was Automated Workflows. The next closest, at 25%, was Built-in CRM, with Personalized Workspaces coming in third.

Of course, there are many more benefits of a new ERP solution, such as streamlining operations, managing key business functions, increasing productivity and growing profitability—just to name a few. But for now, let’s look a little more closely at the three benefits listed in this poll: automated workflows, built-in CRM and personalized workspaces.

21^st Century ERP

This is the 1st blog in the three-part blog series titled, “21st Century ERP”, which consists of the following posts:

1. Six Signs You Don’t Have a Modern ERP Solution
2. 21^st Century ERP Benefits
3. Who in Your Business Would Benefit the Most from 21^st Century ERP?

The Difference Between Old & Modern ERP

If you’re like most manufacturing and distribution companies, you’ve started out with a hodge podge of manual and siloed systems to manage your business. But workloads have grown. Your management can no longer see everything going on in the company.

• Vast quantities of information make decisions overwhelming.
• Manual business processes are cumbersome and time consuming.
• Documents get misplaced.

Answering questions such as—what is the cost of labor and materials for a particular product? Or, where an order is in the production line?—demand increasingly time-consuming research via email, voice mail, or walking to the shop floor. Important work falls through the cracks.

To complement Macola 10, we partner with best-in-class third party providers to offer add-on solutions that integrate with Macola’s ERP solution, Macola 10. Today, we are pleased to feature a guest blog post from one of our technology solution partners, Data Masons, which offers Vantage Point EDI for Macola, is a cost-effective and reliable gateway for EDI processing and is well suited for enterprise-level EDI environments—and of course—integrates with Macola 10:

How Many Use Automated Workflows

In the last post, Companies Weigh In on Benefits of Automated Workflows, we explained that in a recent webinar we had asked the attendees this question: “What would be the most valuable benefit of automated workflows for your business?" We were fascinated by the response, and the full results of this poll can be found via this link.

But before we dive into the five benefits, we wanted to also show the results of the second poll from this same webinar, 5 Reasons to Use Automated Workflows in Your ERP Solution. In this second poll, we asked the attendees this: “How many automated workflows does your business currently have in place?” We were a little surprised by the results, because we learned that over 80% of the attendees said that they either were utilizing very few or no automated workflows in the ERP. Here’s the full breakdown below: 

Survey Says…

We just conducted a webinar with the same title as this blog post ─ “5 Reasons to Use Automated Workflows in Your ERP Solution” ─ and in this webinar, we asked our attendees this question: “What would be the most valuable benefit of automated workflows for your business?" We found the results to be fascinating…