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In today’s feature white paper, you’ll find 10 key questions to ask your finance and accounting software vendor before you buy a new ERP system. With so many vendors clamoring for your business, the answers to these questions will help you get the ERP system that genuinely fits the needs, business processes, and priorities of your organization.

One of the vendors you could end up directing those 10 questions at is SYSPRO, a mid-market ERP vendor bridging the gap in offerings between the “early adopter,” visionary-type buyer group and the more pragmatic, “early (market) majority”-type buyer group. Here’s a question and answer session in which SYSPRO expands on its unique vision of the future.

Read 3 Ways to Manage Risk and Prevent Fraud with Your ERP System

In today’s feature case study, you’ll discover how a scalable ERP solution enabled a growing, high-volume distributor to take orders off the Web, improve customer service by providing key information to sales representatives in the field, and update inventory levels in real time—all the while adding 100 new accounts to their customer base.

If you’re not entirely clear on the differences between discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing, today’s feature blog post will help set you straight. Click here to learn about the differences that help define them, and the major characteristics that make each type of manufacturer unique.

Read How to Avoid the Leading Cause of IT Project Failure

Because BI and business performance management (BPM) are so closely related, you may be unsure of the differences between them. In this straightforward guide to BPM, you’ll learn more about BPM’s components, how they link up, and the way in which this business-oriented application of BI can optimize business performance and help drive corporate strategy.

An ERP system alone will not deliver significant return on investment (ROI), as many midsized businesses are learning the hard way. The real ROI comes from employing a BI solution that allows you to use your ERP data in a meaningful way. Here’s a look at five building blocks you need to have in place so that your BI deployment is both successful and profitable.

Read Guides to Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management

With the ERP system serving as the IT heart of a process manufacturing operation, it’s absolutely crucial that you get a system that meets your company's special needs. Today’s feature white paper gives you a guide to the questions you need to ask—and the issues you need to look at—before you commit to a new process ERP system.

Find out how attribute-based demand planning, essentially a method of lean inventory management, can enable you to reduce inventory levels and supply chain connections, resulting in lower manufacturing costs and higher levels of customer satisfaction. It’s in today’s feature article.

Read Optimizing Your Process ERP System

And speaking of buzzwords, ever wonder if IT white papers sometimes contain a group of buzzwords that the vendor might, just might, be including to try and bamboozle you? Or could that just be your imagination at work? Our take on the truth of the matter is revealed here.

On a more serious note, today's feature white paper shows how you can run a better operation by maximizing your inventory management system and maintaining accurate stock balances.

Read Buzzwords, Swear Words, ERP, and You