ERP - News, Features, and Slideshows

• CIO spotlight: Piers Shore of Fonterra

  Piers Shore holds the biggest CIO role in the primary sector in New Zealand, but it was his interest in another field that paved the way for a career in ICT across the globe.

• The power of data, digital and diversity: Insights from a CDO

  Dave Scullin of Ballance Agri-Nutrients outlines the table stakes for today’s ICT chiefs as organisations transform for the digital era

• Kiwi hospitality group goes live with the world’s fastest implementation of SAP S/4HANA cloud

  Kāpura partners with Deloitte to achieve 28-day implementation

• Synlait works with Infor to transform business

  Kiwi infant formula firm wants to bolster innovation in supply chain and manufacturing operations

• Moving ERP to the cloud? Expect delays

  Businesses are attracted to cloud ERP systems but compliance challenges and difficulties in moving sensitive data to the cloud are still a concern.

• 11 tips for deploying ERP applications

  In a global mobile environment, organisations are looking for ERP systems that do more than integrate with a legacy system. But with so many solutions available, how do you choose the software that's right for your enterprise? IT executives and ERP experts offer 11 tips to get a return on your software investment.

• Why Watching 'Lost' Is Like Managing ERP

  Since the fall of 2004, I've invested a lot of time, given way too much thought to, and probably annoyed plenty of people over all things Lost. Like a crazy, unpredictable friend in your life, the show has consumed me, frustrated me, surprised me, exasperated me and kept me on my toes.

• Inside ERP Budgets: Slicing, Dicing the Corporate Pie

  Lately, much of the furor encircling ERP costs has revolved around software maintenance and support fees. The global recession has forced customers of Big ERP vendors-SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor-to question the value they receive from the fees.

• Why ERP is still so hard

  Steve Berg knows what intense pain feels like: The man has been Tasered, in fact-not because he ran afoul of the law, but as VP of IT at Taser International he's partaken in a corporate rite of passage. "It's the worst five seconds of your life," he says. "You cannot move."

• SAP upgrades: dos and don'ts from an ERP guru

  According Jon Reed, ERP consultant, author and SAP analyst, there is no shortage of SAP ERP upgrade advice available to companies and IT departments today. One problem: "Most of this advice, as truthful as it is, has reached the point of cliche," Reed writes in a new report on SAP ERP upgrades.

Whitepapers about ERP

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