What’s New in the Latest Syspro Release
The latest Syspro release delivers meaningful advances across manufacturing and distribution operations. This release strengthens operational controls, improves traceability and gives teams the tools to work with greater accuracy and confidence across the supply chain. Five capabilities lead this release. In-Process Inspections bring quality checks into work in progress, at the BOM operation level, rather […]
Integrating eCommerce with Manufacturing Systems: From Storefront to Shop Floor
Buyers in manufacturing expect to see where their order is at any point. They want live updates on status, timelines and delays. Automated alerts and self-service portals aren’t a bonus. They’re the baseline. The gap shows up when the website can’t talk to the shop floor. Customer-facing platforms fail to pass technical needs, stock limits and production capacity to back-end workflows. Orders get re-keyed by hand. Data […]
DSO is a payments problem, not a collections problem
Manufacturing DSO has climbed to historic highs. The lever to release working capital sits at the moment of payment, not in collections intensity. When days sales outstanding climbs, the reflex inside most finance teams is to turn to the collections department. More calls. Tighter dunning cadences. Pressure on customers who are slow to pay. The […]
Five Signs Your ERP Is Always One Step Behind the Floor
Most of the legacy ERP problems manufacturers struggle with trace back to a single cause, and it has very little to do with how fast the software runs. The deeper issue is timing: a system built to record what already happened will always show you the floor as it looked a few hours ago, even as the […]
The Lean Growth Blueprint: Scaling Manufacturing (Without Adding Staff)
Scaling manufacturing has a pattern. You add a product line, you add a person to run it. A new brand means a new admin hire, and a second warehouse means someone to track what moves where. By the time you run four or five brands, a big chunk of your team exists just to manage […]
Extending Your ERP Where It Matters Most with Syspro Marketplace
It usually starts with one specific request. Engineering wants computer-aided design (CAD) files synced to bills of materials, so revisions don’t fall out of step. Or finance needs sales tax automation that handles thousands of US jurisdictions. Or sales asks for an e-commerce storefront with live inventory from the ERP. Each ask points to the same thing: specialized capability that lives outside core ERP. […]
How Manufacturers Can Reduce Inventory Errors (and Stop Paying for Them)
For some manufacturers and distributors, warehouse errors feel like an unavoidable cost of doing business. But knowing how to reduce inventory errors, and acting on it, is what separates operations that absorb the costs from those that eliminate it. Industry benchmarks put a single mistake at $50 to $500, and when that mistake triggers a late shipment, stalls a production job and forces a material requirements planning […]
Are You Maximizing Your ERP Platform Investment?
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
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 […]
How to Future-Proof Manufacturing Compliance Without Disrupting Production
Compliance requirements don’t stand still, but outdated ERP systems do. Manufacturing and distribution operations running unsupported legacy platforms face growing audit risks, traceability gaps, and security vulnerabilities that expose your business to penalties and production delays. As AI reshapes the industry, the gap between legacy systems and modern capabilities widens further. Modern Syspro builds manufacturing […]