Resources & ERP Topics

Dan Burger recently published article in “The Four Hundred” entitled “Third Party's A Charm For JDE Maintenance Contracts” provides excellent insight regarding outsourcing support for IBM i enterprise business systems.  Dan makes these observations:

Olin Thompson recently wrote an article entitled "Legacy Systems: Weighing the Costs, Benefits and Risks" for Food Engineering magazine.  In the article Olin discusses legacy systems replacement versus renovation.  He begins the article by saying in the Food and Beverage Industry these systems are often "those that work" and goes onto to discuss pros and cons for these two approaches.  Here are a few several points of the article:

You've spent countless hours together, learned a lot, and accomplished great things but it may be time to say goodbye to your current ERP software.

Every day manufacturers are faced with the choice of converting their existing ERP solution to a newer, slicker product. In this two part series, PSGi explores when you should Keep, Replace or Augment your existing solution. These simple checklists will help you make an important business operations and financial decision.

So many manufacturers struggle with getting the most out of their enterprise business systems but everyday PSGi helps someone increase their ROI. A little self serving perhaps, but we love seeing clients get results from our partnership and just had to share.