Are You Maximizing Your ERP Platform Investment?

Manufacturing operations manager using Syspro modules ERP platform in warehouse to track production data and improve operational efficiency.

Manufacturing teams often search for solutions to operational challenges while powerful capabilities sit dormant in their existing systems.  A production manager builds Excel spreadsheets to track job costs. A quality director searches through paper records during an audit. A purchasing team buys third-party software to calculate landed costs.   Meanwhile, the tools to solve these problems might already exist […]

Why AI Maturity in Manufacturing Depends on Execution, Not Experimentation

Close‑up of an industrial machining tool cutting metal, representing AI and ERP platforms grounded in real operational data.

IDC’s latest report published this week, the ‘IDC MaturityScape AI-Fueled Organization 2.0 – 2026 Apr’ and accompanying ‘IDC Agent as Apps-The Rise of Apps – A Vendor Business Model Reset’, captures an important shift in the market. Most organizations are already experimenting with AI. The question is whether they can turn that experimentation into something practical, scalable, and genuinely useful in the day-to-day running of […]