Spreadsheets or ERP – Anarchy or Brilliance? - You decide.
If you don’t know what’s good for your company, it’s ERP.  Knowing and using ERP are two different things. If management does not buy ERP to be used and represent a single source of the truth, why did they spend their money?

ERP is an organizational culture, which when correctly implemented, makes the difference between silos and islands and unspoiled enterprise-wide flexibility, strength and survivability.

SYSPRO incorporates a number of facilities aimed at securing the organization's system from unauthorized access. Security measures range from login authentication to passwords and access levels configured per operator against programs, transactions, activities and fields.

How do you know your "A" items using ABC Analysis?
You use the ABC Analysis reporting to print a list of stock items in descending order of usage (importance) value, based on the quantity of stock used over the last 12 months, for example.

This SYSPRO ERP case study outlines a specific scenario where Walsmann Lighting was able to solve a long-standing problem – that of keeping field sales personnel abreast of changes in customer status.

1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software integrates systems from different functional areas, making business operations more efficient.
2. ERP systems offer better accessibility to data so that management can have up-to-the-minute access to information for decision making and managerial control.
3. Some ERP systems can automate operations, workflow processes, and control workflow, which allows organizations to introduce standards that increase productivity, save time and reduce staffing requirements.
4. The immediate benefit from implementing ERP systems we can expect is reduced operating costs, such as lower inventory control cost, lower production costs, lower marketing costs and lower help desk support costs.
5. Increased visibility of the order fulfillment process from beginning to end helps reduce work-in-progress inventory and finished goods inventory.
6. ERP software can be used to manage employee information across multiple business units, making it easier to track years of service and eligibility for benefits and services.
7. Provide a consolidated picture of sales, inventory and receivables
8. Many businesses can purchase ERP software packages tailored to the specific needs of their industry. 
9. Data to support Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are easily accessible.

The ERP choices are many.  David Wormser, Eileen O'Malley and Alison Danis of Wormser Corporation detail their journey to select a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution to integrate all aspects of their cosmetics components business.

Goods in Transit (GiT) Introduction
SYSPRO's Goods in Transit system provides the tools for greater management, control and visibility over stock items that are in the process of being transferred between warehouses. It also forms a core component of the Distribution Requirements Planning system and provides a primary reconcilable book of account.

Goods in transit may refer to merchandise and other inventory items shipped by a seller, but have not yet been received by the purchaser.

Engineering Change Control Systems Empower Simplification and Standardization.
Many small-to-mid-sized organizations follow the same manual engineering change processes (ECR(change request)-ECN(change notice)-ECO(change order)) are manually created using text document templates, the BOM (bill of materials) is a spreadsheet, copies of the documents are attached, packaged and manually routed through office (e)mail or hand-carried from one engineer/reviewer/checker to the next. This process hasn't really changed much in decades. Last, but not least, don't forget about the documentation updates.

Change forms (ECR/ECN/ECO) often reference incorrect part numbers, attachments get lost, the packages can be misrouted or sit on a vacationing engineer's desk... the workflow is extensive, inefficient, error prone and costly.

Best Practices:
Inventory cycle counting, stock-take, inventory counting processes, policies and procedures, traditionally, cause much pain and are costly. Whether you are a manufacturer, distributor, retailer, eCommerce, construction or plumbing company your inventory levels can make or break your day. The tools we have makes this a reality. In the SYSPRO world of "counting tools", we have some advanced methods and software to assist. Advanced cycle count systems like SuttonDirect's product, provide us with fast and accurate ways to verify and schedule inventory quantity verification. The ability to assign stock codes into control groups, for one thing, ensures us that our high volume inventory is accurate, enabling reliability to meet customer needs.

Advanced Cycle Count Benefits:

Like a "sixth sense", brainstorming or feedback for clarity is critical to the Five Systems for Success.  Without early and often feedback processes, we could build a bridge to nowhere.  With brainstorming, we assimilate the broad-based input and thinking from our teams.

Visualize your business before the forensics team arrives.
Business success and failure may be as close as the hair on a dog's back. Business histories, financial burdens, failing economies, declining sales and profits, increasing costs and operating expenses are all in the forensic closet. These factors come to bear in the analytics of business intelligence dashboards. The clues are there all along. If we take the time to develop and use proper key performance indicators (KPIs), we have a change to make a difference.

What are KPIs? - Business Intelligence Solutions automating business metrics reporting. Packed with predefined content and specialized in KPI trend analysis, Business Intelligence Dashboards enables executives and managers to understand and improve business performance with decision support.