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10 Critical Questions to Ask a Manufacturing ERP Vendor
Must-Have Features and Functions, Architectural Issues, and Fit for Your Business Model
A Google search for "manufacturing ERP" returns 2.3 million results, including hundreds of companies offering thousands of solutions in this area. The companies range from global giants offering legacy systems to smaller companies offering only point solutions (and still calling them ERP!) - and there are thousands of consultants and Systems Integrators with their own opinions and offerings.
Given this explosion of solution providers, how can an organization make an intelligent decision on whom to trust with this mission critical system? How do you sort out the companies with expertise in your area of manufacturing from the companies trying to force-fit their financial applications to your business model?
Plexus Systems suggests that many manufacturers are focusing on the wrong issues when considering ERP solutions. The ERP industry has earned such a poor reputation for delivery in the last 20 years that users have learned to live within a very narrow set of constraints - and those constraints have been in place for so long that the questions we hear are built with those constraints already assumed. Now is the time to break free of this mind-set and ask the more important questions.
Plexus Systems offers this guide to help you along your path to a decision. Our hope, of course, is that Plexus Systems will come out on top of your list - but even if we don't, we think these are issues that you must consider when choosing a partner for providing your core business operational system.
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