Last year, the global marketing research firm IDC cast the prediction that by 2017, at least half of all manufacturers would be taking advantage of the cloud and cloud-based applications to improve operations.
Specifically, IDC called out Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a top cloud technology that manufacturers would be leveraging more.
IDC also predicted that manufacturers that focused their efforts and budgets on improving customer-centric, cloud-based technologies would likely see a market share increase of two to three percent during 2016. This is another nod to ERP, which as its core is an enterprise-focused application with customer experience boosting advantages and functionality ideal for cloud applications.
Highly flexible and scalable, ERP solutions, such as Epicor ERP, can be deployed to fit a manufacturers unique operational needs, resources, and budget, including on-site installation, hosted, or as a SaaS or cloud application.
Epicor, for example, offers cloud ERP innovation, providing manufacturers of all sizes feature-rich enterprise resource planning solutions with functionally identical to on-premises – allowing manufacturers positioning for growth to embrace the cloud on their own terms, while increasing agility, simplifying administration and reducing costs.
Why focus on cloud-based ERP?
The benefits and capabilities of cloud-based ERP can help manufacturing organizations increase efficiencies and decrease costs, which, in turn, enable growth in increasingly competitive markets. ERP brings to manufacturing new levels of agility, scalability, efficiency and productivity – not to mention advanced analytics for better business intelligence.
In an interview with Global Manufacturing, Stuart Hall, Sales Director for Epicor Software, said that Epicor ERP is built for collaboration and mobility.
“Epicor’s continued investment in creating a new mobile framework supports a modern user experience on virtually any mobile device for anytime, anywhere information access,” Hall shared with Global Manufacturing. “This mobile framework is the foundation for delivering a mobile dashboard application, which is ideal for modern-day manufacturing – Epicor enables enterprises to use the full power of social, mobile and cloud technology in one solution that is specifically designed with manufacturing in mind.”
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CompuData works with manufacturers every day to leverage the advantages of Epicor ERP in the cloud, combining the rich feature set of Epicor ERP with the business and technical benefits of cloud deployment.
CompuData’s cloud-based Epicor ERP expertise eliminates the need for separate applications and spreadsheets – powering an integrated ERP environment capable of sustaining growth. For more information on growing your manufacturing business, contact CompuData today!