The ability to collect payments faster is more significant than ever. The economic landscape is increasingly volatile, with fluctuations in market conditions and currency values. This unpredictability makes it crucial for businesses to maintain a steady cash flow to ensure stability and resilience. Secondly, the rapid pace of technological advancements has raised customer expectations. Consumers…
Encountering hurdles in your ERP project journey is not uncommon. Perhaps the timeline has stretched far beyond what was planned, or costs are spiraling out of control. Maybe you are starting to question the capability of the software to meet your business requirements. Regardless of the unique challenges, the good news is, that it’s never…
Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, is the management of all the information and resources involved in a company’s operations by means of an integrated computer system. It was first defined by Gartner in 1990 to represent a system to manage traditional distribution and discrete manufacturing organizations with repetitive processes. It first encompassed manufacturing resource planning,…
When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), one size does not fit all, especially for project-driven companies. Project-driven work has clear goals, milestones and deliverables and a defined start and end date. Projects may take hours, months or longer — the duration varies with every project and business need. But the work is aligned…
In our How to Build and Maintain an Effective Budget post, we discussed how to build a budget using your ERP’s budgeting functionality combined with Excel worksheet templates and ERP file import. Most companies today prepare some sort of financial budget. Budgets can be built at a very high level (Sales, cost of sales and…
An accurate budget is the basis of effective business management. Today, most companies prepare a financial budget. Some build budgets at an extremely high level (e.g., sales, cost of sales and expenses), others build a detailed budget (e.g., sales detail by type, expenses by department, capital spending, projects). Companies may also budget the Balance Sheet…
With cannabis strains changing regularly and new strains constantly emerging, it’s enough to make your head spin trying to track strains across multiple items. Cannabis operators need an easy way to create and assign strains to items so they can measure the revenue each strain generates and whether customers are satisfied with each strain. Operators…
An accurate budget is the basis of effective financial and operational management. Today, most companies prepare a financial budget. Some build budgets at an extremely high level (e.g., sales, cost of sales and expenses), others build a detailed budget (e.g., sales detail by type, expenses by department, capital spending, projects). Companies may also budget the…
Achieving digital transformation enables cannabis operators to streamline their workflows and gain real-time access to data on the performance of their businesses. Enabling users to work more efficiently and arming them with insights on your key indicators paves the way to generate more revenue with higher margins while also improving your customer experiences. For a…
To get to this point in your ERP implementation, you’ve gone through a lengthy sales process, selected your solution provider and set your project’s overall goals and objectives. You’ve also commenced a formal kick-off meeting. In the meeting, the project plan was developed including organizing tasks, assigning resources, and setting the project ground rules. If…
