| | April 20167integrations between INDUSTRIOS and external applications including accounting. Today INDUSTRIOS runs in integration with Sage PFW, Sage 300 ERP, QuickBooks Enterprise, and Oracle Financials. ESI is also used to create integrations with other applications like engineering or payroll.For INDUSTRIOS, the nuances of market competition translate to a prominent roadblock for their clients. "Some of the biggest challenges that our clients face are shrinking margins and increasing competition," says Edward Szukalo, VP, Member Advisory and Practice Group at INDUSTRIOS. Additional to the point solution, Hybrid ERP approach outlined above, a dash of creativity injected in INDUSTRIOS offers manufacturers several tools to increase process efficiencies, improve profitability and increase competitiveness.INDUSTRIOS ERP Manufacturing Suite provides a complete set of robust manufacturing software applications in multiple manufacturing environments, including make-to-stock, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, configure-to-order, mixed mode, and make-to-project. One of these tools, Manufacturing CRM (Customer Relationship Management), has robust features that allow users to access, from one screen, all transactions and documents relative to an account, offering strong potential to improve responsiveness to customer queries, and impacting customer satisfaction. INDUSTRIOS's PlantGaugeTM Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboard, a graphical tool, allows real-time publishing of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that fosters a culture of employee engagement. PlantGauge is also quite adept at slicing, dicing and data mining for analysis purposes.Other than these innovative products, INDUSTRIOS believes in the importance of including organizational change management and business process re-engineering concepts in all of their ERP implementations. As small as they may be, all organizations have to address these types of notions when switching systems. Addressing these up-front, and having a plan to manage the transition, has been key to INDUSTRIOS's success.Considering all the above, it comes as no surprise that INDUSTRIOS's focus for moving forward is to continue to get closer and closer to its customers. A growing realm for INDUSTRIOS, which sets them apart, is advocating membership relationship. "INDUSTRIOS's key executives are actively involved in helping customers achieve KPI targets and build intimate, ongoing relationships, going beyond the traditional software support program approach," states Jacques Decarie, VP-Sales and Marketing. One of the company mottos is that progressive improvement is better than postponed perfection. For many INDUSTRIOS customers, INDUSTRIOS executives' knowledge and expertise go well beyond the successful implementation of an ERP package. Monitoring KPIs, making changes to continuously improve, and monitoring some more, are all part of the value INDUSTRIOS brings to the table.Technology wise, INDUSTRIOS plans to stay tuned to the needs of the manufacturing sector. Going to the cloud for the sake of going to the cloud is not part of the strategy. Proper consideration will be given to stability, reliability, accessibility, responsiveness, security, and many other factors. "We are going to continue to focus on functionality of the software in terms of onsite, in the cloud, on mobile or on the web; in correct proportion to suit customers need," concludes DeGasperis. are unique in nature because they go beyond just selling software by focusing on the challenges faced by customerssirepsaGeD otaneR
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