The Hidden Cost of Integration Sprawl in Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing facility with glowing digital data connection lines overlaid across machinery, some fragmented, representing the manufacturing ERP integration cost of stitching shop-floor systems together.

You probably didn’t plan to run seven systems. A warehouse management system (WMS) came in when you opened the second site. A customer relationship management (CRM) tool arrived because sales needed better order visibility. The scheduling tool followed when the shop floor started missing commit dates. Then came the electronic data interchange (EDI) platform, a customer requirement, […]