Manufacturers love the idea of planning. MRP, scheduling, demand forecasting: this is the part of an ERP system that promises control and fewer fire drills. ERPs are genuinely good at […]
[...]Posted on: August 24, 2026
Why Your ERP Implementation Struggles Probably Aren’t About the Software
Posted on: August 6, 2026
It’s one of the most common refrains in manufacturing: “The ERP doesn’t work.” Teams go live, expectations are high, and then reality sets in. Reports are wrong. Inventory numbers don’t […]
[...]Your shop floor data isn’t AI-ready if engineering is still the bottleneck
Posted on: June 26, 2026
Every manufacturer wants to put AI to work somewhere on the shop floor. Far fewer have stopped to ask what the AI will be reading. That’s the uncomfortable part of […]
[...]The person who “just knows how it works” is your biggest data risk
Posted on: June 19, 2026
Walk into almost any mid-size manufacturer and ask who moves the engineering data into the ERP. You’ll usually get a name. One name. Maybe it’s a senior engineer. Maybe it’s […]
[...]Configurable, not customized: keeping your CAD-to-IFS integration alive through every IFS Cloud update
Posted on: June 15, 2026
Most custom integrations work beautifully the day they go live. The trouble starts at the first upgrade. IFS Cloud moves. It ships updates, refines modules, adds capability. That’s a good […]
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