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Have you taken advantage of the new technologies that change enterprise resource planning (ERP) from a reactive planning system to a proactive one? Are you extracting more value from your existing ERP investments?
Read this e-book for insights on ERP modernization. Discover ways to achieve operational excellence, create new customer experiences and expand your business benefits.
Dismantle barriers, creating a single data source and real-time visibility into operations. Benefits: informed decision-making, greater efficiency, use of advanced technologies and automation.
Support remote machine monitoring, proactive maintenance and automation powered by AI and IoT by joining data threads between manufacturing equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and IT systems. Benefits: real-time production visibility, data insights to inform decision-making, cost control and competitiveness.
Add apps and features via extensible, cloud-connected ERP systems and assistive user interfaces. Benefits: monitor floor activities in real time, identify upsell opportunities, extend functionality with intelligent technologies, adapt solutions to employee or customer needs.
Allow real-time data (inventory, account, supply chain or other vital operations) uploads and access via mobile ERP, using a tablet or smartphone. Benefits: enhance team collaboration and management from any location.
Leverage the cloud environment with ERP as the core. As-a-service offerings with predictable monthly payments put ERP within reach of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Benefits: use cloud infrastructure to expand capabilities and support innovation.
In a recent study, companies that have made the transition to Cloud ERP show why it could be your best move.
Sales Volume:
Increased by 15% with $471K in additional revenue thanks to shortened project timelines and increased production volume.
Operational Efficiency:
Greater employee productivity, $100K+ overall savings.
Gross Margin:
gains of $1.3 million with improved inventory management and quote accuracy, plus reduced labor costs.
Future-Ready:
Cloud ERP opens the door to innovative technologies, like artificial intelligence and machine learning. You gain greater organizational insight and outcome predictability — a competitive edge.
Company Culture:
ROI:
robust return on investment in just three years!
For businesses with a goal of greater competitiveness, a move to the cloud is inevitable — and a delay could hinder your plans.
Next, develop an IT environment that delivers ideal business outcomes.
In my view, what we achieved in migrating that number of databases in that short amount of time has set the standard for the industry
Cloud computing is emerging as the No. 1 tool that organizations are using to increase their competitiveness. Companies that haven’t embraced the cloud risk falling behind.
Here are six areas where moving your ERP systems to the cloud can improve your competitive position:
Streamline IT Operations
CIOs can focus on using ERP systems strategically, to achieve business goals.
Stronger Security
User authentication allows anytime, anywhere information access, while retaining control and reducing risk.
Outstanding Customer Service
Meet customer demands for real-time information, convenience and on-the-spot service.
Freedom To Innovate
Agile cloud infrastructure scales easily, with less risk and upfront expense.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) Efficiencies
Avoid on-premises infrastructure downtime and ensure vital data is always backed up.
Increase Remote Collaboration
Reinvest your cost savings into other business areas to boost efficiency and competitiveness.
With the cloud migration well under way, it’s time to optimize the cloud environment with ERP as the core.
Expand your business strengths and capabilities with these steps:
Designing and implementing a system to achieve those goals, however, is a complex undertaking. To ensure your success, recruit IT professionals with knowledge and expertise in cloud solutions and intelligent technologies.
Hitachi brought subject matter expertise and prior client experience, including deployments. The blend of Hitachi’s onshore and offshore capabilities with Gowling WLG’s resources was an incredibly successful model.
Chris Oglethorpe,
Global HR Director,
Gowling WLG
Pull ahead of the competition by extending your investments into ERP and innovating with advanced technologies.
Use these technologies to regain first-mover advantages. The next iteration of supply chain management means viewing ERP not as a finite management system, but as a state-of-the-art, cloud-based core or nerve center of your operations. Integrating advanced technologies with the right ERP system brings:
Leverage an experienced partner’s expertise to ensure that your system is seamlessly integrated and aligned with your supply chain and business goals.
50% or more of ERP projects fail, and only 4% of ERP projects are properly aligned to leverage the cloud.1
It is when ERP implementations are done skillfully — with proven experience — that business outcomes are truly transformative. That’s why choosing the right strategic partner is probably the second most important decision you will make, after choosing the ERP system. Select a partner who will help you avoid making these 10 common mistakes:
With automated processes, we can move employees to positions where they can add more value to the business, which in turn will aid growth. With Hitachi Digital services by our side, we’re building the foundations we need to double in size.
John Thompson
CIO, Reiter Affiliated Companies
Can the Oracle partner you’re considering deliver the results that benefit your business the most?
Ask these five questions to determine whether you’ve found the right partner or you need to keep looking for a better fit:
In your meetings with potential Oracle partners, take the opportunity to understand what the firm does best and how they will help your organization beyond deploying Oracle apps.
The Hitachi Digital Services team showed tremendous dedication to the project, working tirelessly to meet our requirements and coming up with innovative solutions – while getting us to go live 100% remotely during a pandemic
Corinna Noelke,
Executive Director,
Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
Do you have questions about how to reach your business goals with Oracle technologies? We have answers.
Lay the groundwork for a successful implementation with ERP modernization services for Oracle applications from Hitachi Digital Services. Our Oracle innovation practice is built on more than 22 years of experience and learnings from over 2,000 Oracle implementations and over 160 successful Oracle cloud go-lives. We have deep knowledge and co-development investments in Oracle products, and we receive inputs and requests from hundreds of customer executives from our advisory engagements.
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