May 2020
Finding Delays in Financial Close Processes with Process Mining
When your finance team works remotely, month-end close delays get harder to diagnose. Process mining replaces guesswork with evidence from your own ERP logs.
Etiket
When your finance team works remotely, month-end close delays get harder to diagnose. Process mining replaces guesswork with evidence from your own ERP logs.
We critically assess blockchain supply chain pilots, separating what the technology actually solves from persistent data integrity challenges that remain unresolved.
Before a health wearable distributor integrates ERP with CRM, what question must come first? Collecting data is not enough — building the right process is the real challenge.
When connected product data flows across three parties, ownership ambiguity creates real commercial disputes and regulatory exposure that ERP strategies cannot ignore.
Buying a barcode reader does not automate your ERP. Without process maturity, reader infrastructure generates a digital version of the same chaos.
In building materials manufacturing, buying ERP and shop-floor automation as separate decisions almost always creates an integration gap that costs far more than either system's license fee.
Buying SRM software does not fix supplier management. The real issue is selecting technology before defining the process. A practical guide from Turkey's SME reality in 2016.
ERP automation boosts production efficiency — but automating a broken process only makes it fail faster. Real lessons from a 2016 metal manufacturing project in Turkey.
Launching an e-commerce platform is not enough — without clean data infrastructure, SEO investment is just a cost line. Field notes from Turkish retail in 2015.
In airline catering operations, the real challenge isn't reducing complaint numbers — it's uncovering which department's performance problem those numbers are hiding.
Connectivity is becoming a purchasing criterion. An analysis of categories where unconnected products face shrinking commercial lifespans and the adaptation options for manufacturers.
Surveys fall short. Sensor data embedded in products reveals actual customer behavior, reshaping product development priorities and segmentation strategies.
Big data, IoT and smart manufacturing are not separate trends — they form a single operational wave. A decision framework for manufacturing managers.
A three-question framework that filters IoT enthusiasm through a business case lens: data value, revenue impact, and the connection decision.
Connecting demand forecasting, production orders, and shipment in one data flow is not a technology problem — it is a process design problem most ERP projects get wrong.
ERP governance is not merely a technical choice; it reflects how the organization makes decisions. When process, data, and ownership are unclear, investment creates speed in the short term and complexity in the long term. Real value begins when technology is connected to a business outcome.