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February 5, 2020 user ERP

How to Build an Effective Business Intelligence (BI）Strategy

To implement the full potential of business intelligence and take its value to the next level in your business, you need a solid understanding of where you are, what you want to achieve, and what’s possible. From generating reports and charts that depict business performance, to implementing a truly transformative solution that uses powerful advanced analytics, to predicting behaviors and outcomes, business intelligence can be a strategic weapon that significantly impacts your bottom line. An effective business intelligence strategy will have to evolve as your business grows and will need [...]

January 31, 2020 user ERP

What Time to Use a Cloud ERP System

1. Outdated Technology Updating an older system to modern requirements and new hardware needs can be an expensive and time-consuming project that only delivers short-term benefits. If the underlying software and database infrastructures have aged past support dates and the system’s growth capability is limited, it’s time for a cloud ERP system. The older an ERP system is, the higher the current maintenance and future upgrade costs will be. Moore’s Law, which predicts the systematic increase of computing power, also applies to ERP systems. 2. User Unfriendliness When IT staff [...]

January 29, 2020 user ERP

8 Methods AI Improves ERP Software

1. Prediction AI-driven solutions can process historical data from ERP software and make predictions for the future. These tools identify seasonal patterns in your business, offering suggestions on whether you should decrease or increase production. Not only does AI reduce the costs of forecasting, but it also makes forecasting much more accurate. You can significantly reduce the risk of underproduction or overproduction when you manufacture the right amount of inventory. 2. Analytics Artificial intelligence’s ability to work with massive amounts of data enables real-time, accurate data insights from ERP software. [...]

January 24, 2020 user ERP

5 Things You Must Know Before Implementing ERP Software (2)

Data Quality Control The two most common data challenges an organization faces when implementing a new ERP system is replacing legacy data and consolidating separate solutions. First, the business should decide on what type of data needs to be collected for operations and business processes. The second step is to have the business clear any inaccurate or duplicate data sets in the previous system. Make sure you have someone, whether it be a vendor or IT expert, guide you through this process and map the migration of the newly refined [...]

January 21, 2020 user ERP

5 Things You Must Know Before Implementing ERP Software (1)

If you are a first time experience one just looking for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, there are five challenges organizations face when implementing an ERP for the first time. Identifying these challenges can help with the planning stages, ensuring all possible issues are addressed before the ERP implementation project. Choose The Right One The 1st challenge is actually selecting the right software that is suited to your specific business needs. When it comes to choosing an ERP solution, it’s not a one-size fits all approach. Every business [...]

January 17, 2020 user ERP, POS

Difference between ERP and POS

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system refers to an all-in-one business management solution complete with features for inventory management, order entry and processing, accounting, warehouse management, contact management, purchasing, sales and financials, and more... Binding individual yet dependent departments together, ERP ensures a smooth flow of informational data between them. By gathering a company’s shared transactional data from multiple departments, ERP systems prevent data duplication and offer data integrity with a single version of the truth. Selecting the right and quality ERP solution, not only simplifies business processes but also results [...]

January 6, 2020 stanley ERP, HCM

Security in Multiable M18 ERP & HCM (1)

These days IT security is of paramount and has been a hot topic. You will often heard that ABC company has been hacked and their customers' data have been leaked online. This is very damaging to the company's reputation and will be sued under the GDPR or PDPA regulations by the relevant authorities. Multiable M18 ERP & HCM Systems is cloud-native backend ERP systems that runs on cloud environment. Being an cloud application, naturally, it has been protected by the cloud service provider infrastructure and our customers are not to [...]

December 27, 2019 stanley ERP, HCM

Kanban in M18 ERP & HCM Systems (3)

As an ERP users probably in the warehouse, your task are to ensure that goods that needed to be shipped or going to be shipped are closely monitored especially to VVIP customers. Instead of running a static report every now and then, you will need to have a real-time information of the status and probably to update the status manually in a graphically way with ease. At this stage, you should be able to tell me that in Multiable ERP & HCM Systems, you are can easily achieve that by using [...]

December 19, 2019 stanley ERP, HCM

Kanban in M18 ERP & HCM Systems (2)

I had briefly introduce what Kanban is in our Multiable M18 ERP & HCM Systems. As an ERP system's users, if once of your weekly or monthly task is to update a bunch of data in the system, how do you do it? If it is just one or two fields that you need to update, I believe most users will export the data into excel, amend the data and then upload it back to the system. Yes, it might sounds easy but usually when you export, you are exporting [...]

December 12, 2019 stanley ERP, HCM

Kanban in M18 ERP & HCM Systems (1)

For many manufacturing users of ERP system, Kanban is probably a familiar name or term that you often heard of for lean manufacturing or Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing. In fact, this scheduling system used in manufacturing was invested by a Toyota engineer in the 1940s. Kanban in fact is the name of the Toyota Nameplate System. So what is Kanban in Multiable M18 ERP & HCM System? It is not related to the Kanban manufacturing but the idea is similar to the "Nameplate". It is a our graphical presentation of how [...]

December 9, 2019 stanley ERP, HCM

Users’ Query in M18 (3)

We had shared several useful functionalities or tricks that improves productivity and that is usually one of the main reasons why companies are looking to upgrade or even changing their backend ERP system. Fundamentally, the backend ERP system must be a system that allows flexibility for the users to capture data or information without spending additional time and money and once all these are captured, it must be flexible enough to allow users to extract the information out. Today let's us look at drill-in. In the M18 ERP system, it [...]

October 29, 2019 stanley ERP, HCM

Users’ Query in M18 (2)

Previously in M18 HCM & ERP system, we mentioned about the user's customisable lookup query that you can run as shortcut in order to improve productivity on the left panel in any of the data modules. Today, let's me share with you that in fact, during data entry, as long as the field enter is from the lookup, we can even further customise the lookup information according to the users' needs. For instance, in the M18 HCM & ERP system "Employee" module, there are lookup fields such as "Position" and [...]

October 15, 2019 stanley ERP

What makes an ERP system modern? User Defined Field (2)

We had briefly mentioned about the flexibility of a modern ERP system where it allows users to add/ edit any fields that in any of the data modules previously. Let's us take a closer look at how it can be done. Imagine that you are working for a company as a sales head where your sales managers have to enter their sales order or sales contracts in the company's ERP system. However, there are a lot of fields that your sales managers need to enter besides the compulsory fields and [...]

October 4, 2019 stanley ERP

What makes an ERP system modern? User Defined Field (1)

How are modern ERP systems different from traditional one? It is probably one of the most common questions that you will be asking yourself when looking for a new ERP system. There are many articles in the internet but many simply telling you that traditional ERPs are generally housed on-premise using the company’s own servers and maintained by your own IT staffs and/or external IT company while modern ERPs are cloud ERP. Cloud ERP is hosted on the ERP vendors’ cloud and the system is provided as Software as a [...]