How to avoid customer-specific customization to your ERP system
Customer-specific customizations to ERP software are losing popularity. This is because they are complicated, expensive and often a block to the future. What can you do to avoid customer-specific customizations as much as possible? 1. Choose a proven successful industry-specific ERP solution The better the ERP system fits your company, the less need for customization will [...].
How to create great looking quotes in Word
You want to present your quotation in a professional-looking document, but it shouldn't take you hours to accomplish this. Wouldn't it be great if you could create your quotation in just a few mouse clicks? Building blocks The way to do this is by using so-called building blocks in Microsoft [....]
How to get the most value out of a software demo
When selecting a software solution, the demo is a very important step. Business software demonstrations are one of the most important parts of evaluating whether the software meets your requirements and whether the vendor truly understands your needs. Unfortunately, for many companies, software demos do not provide the answers they are looking for [...].
How do you keep the data in your business software clean?
Every ERP system contains a large amount of data. Think of your contacts, customers, suppliers, objects, items, orders, invoices and financial information. How do you keep the data in your system clean and why is that so important? Clean data; good for now and for the future "Are you working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central? This system offers [...]
How healthy is your business software?
For a fit and healthy body, healthy diet, adequate rest and regular exercise are important. We all know that. But did you know that this also applies (more or less) to your business software? In this blog a few tips on how to take good care of your software so that it stays in top condition. Healthy food (garbage in, garbage [...]
How complete is your ERP system?
With ERP software, you want to increase your organization's productivity, control costs and serve your customers optimally. To achieve this, an ERP system is an integrated automation solution that can support virtually all processes within your organization. A complete solution, in other words. But how complete is your ERP system really? Your important everyday processes are undoubtedly supported, but [...]
The Graphic Plan Board: a boon for the service department
Efficient service planning is invaluable for equipment dealers. Planning and performing maintenance, repairs and inspections on machines becomes much easier with a Graphic Planboard. Is your organization already using this? Pleasant work with a visual representation of service planning A graphic plan board is a visual representation of the planning [...].
The danger of end-of-life enterprise software
Suppose the enterprise software used in your organization no longer has a future. For example, because development is no longer happening, sales are stagnant, or support is even discontinued. But the system works fine for you. Should you be worried then? Business software product life cycle Business software, like other products, has a number of stages in [...].
All you have to do to be customer-focused
Customer-focused. That's what every organization wants to be, especially in the service industry. After all, it's all about the customer, right? The happier the customer is, the more successful your organization is. But although many studies have been done on customer-oriented business strategies, it often turns out to be very difficult to create commercial success by paying a lot of attention and [...]
The devil's square in ERP
There are many factors that influence the success of an ERP implementation. The key to success lies in focusing on four aspects that are also interconnected. Together they form the devil's square in ERP. The four aspects of the devil's square are: And they are inextricably linked. For example, if you want to increase quality [...]
