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Your gross margins are hurting.

You’re being bombarded by supplier price increases from all sides. Upsurges in demand and COVID-19-related shutdowns have strained the supply of your raw materials, commodities, and components. Delays in trucking and shipping are compromising your deliveries. Finding the right talent amid labor market shortages is driving up labor costs. 

Rapid growth is a good problem to have.

But it’s still a “problem.” It means your small or medium-size manufacturing business is trying to solve some painful and challenging problems.

Now that you’ve taken the smart step of accelerating your digital transformation with an ERP system, you may be asking yourself a big question: “Do I really want to do this by myself?”

You wish you could simulate the ERP implementation process. 

A simulation, like the demos of the ERP systems you’re evaluating, would provide a valuable walk-through for the actual experience. After all, the implementation’s big investment of time, money, and energy makes it the riskiest part of an ERP project.

You’re 98% convinced.

You’ve been evaluating your short list of ERP systems to invest in. You’ve already demoed the ERPs with the key players of your team.

Everyone is leaning strongly in favor of a cloud-based system. As the financial leader in your SME, you recognize that the following advantages of a cloud ERP system make the business case very persuasive:

Raw data bombards you all day.

As the financial leader of your small or medium-size manufacturing business, part of your job is to make sense of it, transform it into actionable insight for your executive team, and help all your colleagues make better decisions.