The Ultimate ERP Implementation Checklist
Whether your company is brand-new to the ERP space, or you’re looking to replace outdated, monolithic solutions that are wearing down your inventory ecosystem, implementing a new ERP is a challenging journey. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to win in the implementation stage. Many studies suggest that ERP implementations have high failure rates, and a shocking […]
COO’s Need to Know: Democratizing Inventory Visibility
Inventory visibility, which converges demand forecasting with flexibility, management, and automation, is a key concern for inventory-based businesses. A recent Bain & Company report suggests that 40 percent of supply chain leaders expect to increase investments in real-time inventory visibility over the next few years, with demand forecasting (56%) and inventory management (49%) also making […]
What Can Omnichannel Reporting Achieve?
As we look towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of inventory management and distribution has changed. Virtually every 3PL and distributor is inching into omnichannel commerce, with more than a handful crawling into this complicated and analytically-dense territory for the first time. While COVID-19 certainly accelerated the already-strong trend, omnichannel commerce is […]
Sales & Operations Planning in Healthcare
The modern healthcare supply chain is filled with density, complexity, and layers of cross-regional trade. Recently, healthcare has come under intensive governmental scrutiny for foreign reliance on medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and personal protective equipment (PPE). This so-called “repatriation” of the medical supply chain has hit front-page news, summoned leaders at G20 summits, drawn criticism, and […]
3 Ways to Tighten Up Your Supply Planning Process
Supply planning is about managing and planning the inventory supply to meet customer demand. It’s the entire planning process, which includes distribution, manufacturing, and procurement operations according to demand forecasts, capacity constraints and material availability. There are a variety of gaps in the supply planning process where errors typically occur, but there are also concrete […]
A Thorough Look at Dynamics 365: Business Central vs. Finance and Operations
McKinsey suggests that next-gen supply chain management software like Dynamics can cut operation costs by 30% across-the-board. But how do you figure out which version of Dynamics works best for you? Despite Microsoft leading the charge in the ERP space, they’re versioning and naming isn’t always clear-cut. To date, there have been hundreds of versions […]
Make your supply chain smarter with StockIQ’s SIOP solutions
For inventory-based businesses to succeed today, they need smart, agile supply chains, which are able to respond to both short-term and long-term needs. This has become even more apparent in 2024 and beyond, where businesses need to navigate challenges like economic uncertainty, unstable consumer spending habits, and geopolitical conflicts, which make business alignment and flexibility […]
