Unified Customer View

A mid-market specialty manufacturer operated on separate ERP systems at each of its facilities. Local staff lacked rigor in recording customer names. A given customer could be named differently within a factory. Customers could also be served by multiple factories and recorded locally under an entirely different name. Misspellings and…

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Backlog Visibility

A manufacturing client stored customer purchase orders and customer contracts on a cloud-based file repository. Outstanding orders were tracked in a spreadsheet, which was manual and tedious to keep up-to-date. As a result, management rarely had a real-time quantification of order backlog and could not assess monthly or quarterly trends…

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