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As a massive amount of web content is produced on a daily basis, it's no surprise that consumers are demanding a custom, personalized experience when they interact with your website in order to help weed through and digest information. If they frequent your site, they may expect it will recognize them and display content relevant to them. Visitors also expect that your site will have extensive features and functionality no matter what device they are viewing it on.

Whether you've started, managed or worked in a small business, regardless of what market you're in, you'll be acutely aware of the long list of things to be done to turn a single sales lead into cash. Every step you take to move the prospect through each stage of the process of making the sale to banking the cash generates different types of information which most businesses want to store and organize in a system for immediate and future use. If this resonates with you then you probably need web based ERP software, here’s why…

Advertising and marketing automation is a common method of employing contemporary information technologies resources and web to automate the marketing approach. Advertising preparing, budgeting, interaction and management can all be automated to a excellent diploma. Automating the marketing and advertising processes can enhance productivity by generating routine processes out of an or else extended and tiresome manual process, and add much more possibilities to the blend, as properly. Automating your buyer marketing and advertising strategies can have a severe constructive affect on your consumer base, and support you deal with your time significantly much more efficiently.

Properly advertising to new customers and existing clients are each critical to the longevity of your company. Customers are more interested in discovering the data they need swiftly and effectively, and are not prepared to waste time waiting for a response. Successful advertising automation instruments can react to buyers instantly, offering them precisely what they're searching for to pique their curiosity right up until they can get to a reside particular person.

Small and mid-sized companies today are just now starting to tap the value of developing and executing supply chain excellence strategies as large enterprises have been doing for years.  As the latter companies’ experiences have demonstrated, highly effective supply chains allow a company to operate at peak performance.  Executing supply chain excellence strategies can make favorable contributions to return on assets, margin, improved customer service and competitive advantage while generating more reliable metrics by which to measure success and foresee trouble spots.

Given the preceding, and the fact that supply chain-related costs represent between 55 percent and 65 percent of a company’s gross revenues, the supply chain should be getting plenty of attention.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have come a long way in accelerating business growth. ERP empowers organizations with real time access to information, and enables them to take quick decisions to boost growth. However, these applications are not routine software applications; they directly impact how the business conducts itself. In most cases, existing business processes have to be re-engineered and mapped to the business process as defined in the ERP system. This has many implications – the approach to crafting solutions, implementation and eventual system sustenance have to be carefully managed to reap the full potential of an ERP implementation.

While ERP implementations are successful, they have their share of failures as well - to minimize the chances of failure; organizations should adhere to a set of principles, beginning with a clear business case and an effective ERP software selection process.

People often distinguish procurement (or sourcing) and supplier relationship management (SRM) as two completely distinct functions. Nevertheless, these two functions interact and co-relate in very real and important ways. In fact, oftentimes procurement and SRM are two sides of the same coin – you can’t have one without the other. In this article, we are going to discuss the various ways that procurement and SRM combine for a complete supplier approach.

We are a startup based in Rathnagiri, India. We are engaged in the manufacture of ayurvedic cosmetics. Though we were incorporated in 2004 a large part of the time was spent in product development, setting up of the manufacturing unit and getting the licence for the same. During this period we used to carry out the administration of the Company using Tally and primitive systems of administration if one could call it that. Initial trial marketing was started sometime in 2008 and it continued till early 2011 to help us gain an insight into the market and make necessary adjustments to the product for market acceptability. It was during this time we became aware, that if we had to go in for full fledged marketing, we cannot continue with our old ways of administration.

Service businesses, especially companies in the Energy Sector, Are looking outside their usual stomping grounds for new customers…

Perhaps the volatility of the energy markets is driving them to seek new lands offering better stability and security. Perhaps the possibility of positioning their businesses in markets with little, or no, competition has many companies looking at around for bigger and better opportunities. Whatever the reason, there is a growing trend among energy service providers to seek opportunities globally.

There is something called 'Life after Office' thought Sandhya. She resolved to change her lifestyle. She realised that she gets so engrossed in her work, that lately she had begun collecting payments in her dreams. To change the current scenario, Sandhya accepted the idea of trying out ERP to ease her workload.

With a stern resolve she opened the ERP's user manual. The manual said ERP is like Exercise. It is painful in the short run; but, will do wonders in the long run. Exercise! the word sent her in a tizzy. She remembered paying her gym fees and not being able to continue. The ERP manual had touched the wrong chord. She closed the manual.

"Getting there means ditching today's monolithic model in favor of splintered supply chains that dismantle complexity, and using manufacturing networks to hedge uncertainty."

The future has supply chains with global complexity and new business models. We need to firstly change the old supply chain models by "splintering" into smaller nimbler one and secondly by re-configuring their manufacturing foot prints to bear a range of potential outcomes.

A quality Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software package positively alters the way a company manages its back office, enabling it to enhance planning, execution, management, and control over a wide range of critical processes. It is this ability of ERP to organize and integrate core business areas such as manufacturing, distribution, financials and human resources that makes it popular among small and midsize manufacturers. ERP also boosts a company’s productivity and helps it meet business needs with appropriate levels of automation.

With an ERP solution, what was thus far a manual and error-prone process among distributed individuals and departments now gets connected into a collaborative process which enables greater real-time visibility.

Would your brain be as powerful in controlling your body’s different parts, if it had no information on their strengths, weaknesses, and abilities? The brain is powerful as it receives and interprets numerous signals that are sent to it from different parts of the body. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is similar to the brain as it integrates different departments or functions across a company in a centralized manner.

An ERP software solution like NGRERP can maintain information and business processes for a variety of business functions such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Financials, Human Resources and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Prior to the concept of ERP systems, every department within an organization had its own customized computer applications. For example, the human resources department, the payroll department, and the financial department all had their own computer applications. Typically, this resulted in silos of information and delayed decision-making, as information or data had to be integrated from different computer applications. As an ERP is based on a common database, it allows every department or function to store and access information in real time. A typical ERP can provide solutions related to accounting, production, materials management, quality, sales and distribution, HR and project management.

B2B marketing automation, if done right, is an efficient and cost-effective tactic for engaging your prospects and helping them move forward in their buying process; ultimately generating more of the qualified, sales-ready leads that your salespeople and channel partners need to meet your company’s sales, revenue and growth goals.

The bad news is that when it comes to implementing marketing automation for generating, nurturing and qualifying leads, many B2B marketers are daunted by the perceived complexity.

The good news? Putting marketing automation to work doesn’t have to be an overwhelming effort. You can start simply, building the sophistication of your marketing automation campaigns as you go.

I call it the Crawl, Walk, Run, Win Approach to Putting Marketing Automation to Work.

This is the story of a sales employee who refused to systematise her data on an ERP system. Her name was Sandhya. She was the star sales performer in her organisation. She always delivered her numbers, was extremely hardworking, and loved by everyone in office. Life was beautiful till two major casualties took place. One, she got a new boss. Two, that boss decided to install an ERP.

Complex software projects like NGRPulse, NGRERP, etc, have a long development cycle. You are passionate about technology and someone has to nudge you to start the project. Then you start understanding the domain a bit. The first people who you talk to will sow seeds that will go very deep and will form the genesis of the project. You start giving form to your ideas.

Then you start finding "how" to execute the ideas. You learn about software development, you learn about databases, you learn about web servers and web frameworks. Somewhere down the line, you don't like the frameworks out there so you start to write your own. After a while a prototype is emerges. You are forced to implement it immediately because the legacy software has crashed and the original developer has left the country. You work on your prototype, fixing bugs under pressure and veiled threats from users.

Engagement with customers and potential clients through digital marketing is easy to say but hard to achieve. There are numerous techniques that have emerged and digital marketers need most of them in order to develop a successful strategy for their enterprise.

Just as crucial as a modern car's engine, a modern Web CMS is serves as the motor and heart of every enterprise that wants to succeed with digital marketing. All of the planning and execution of digital marketing can be more efficient and effective.

Consider this. You touch something hot and you immediately drop it or snap your hand from the heat source. It’s automatic, you do this so instantly that you don’t even think about it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is our wonderful nervous system at work which consists of your brain, spinal cord and nerves which work together so well that it feels instant or real time. It sensed the hot object in your hand and signaled your muscles to let it go subconsciously. Basic studies have tracked this process of “feeling pain” to see that some nerves transmit at over 320 KM/HR (or 200 MPH for my American friends). Quite amazing when you think about it.

One day after a dentist visit my mother (bless her) bought home some fish and chips for lunch while my mouth was still numb from the anesthetic. Two hours later I was in horrible pain because I had burned the top of mouth bad and chewed a hole in my tongue because I couldn’t feel the pain. My nervous system was blocked by the pain killers and I ended up doing some serious damage to my mouth. It occurred to me that this is what happens with manufacturing intelligence with it capturing events (both good and bad), transferring them via integration to a central place for viewing and actions. So as a machine starts producing bad parts, the quicker these events are captured, moved and analyzed the less impact of rework or scrap occurs. This is called the “feedback loop”.

Part of ensuring good results in business is setting up good relationships with your suppliers. That's the reason using good supplier relationship management tactics is a wise investment. You may think that because you are making the orders and payments to suppliers, you're in the dominant position and therefore, could make unreasonable demands. The simple truth is, to make things work in your favor as business owners, whenever you find excellent suppliers, you should treat them well and you should work towards creating a mutually advantageous relationship with them.

Here is what Sam Duarte told us after evaluating NGRERP thoroughly for a month: "I have tested the NGRERP platform. We had keyed in a lot of live data. I should say it is a good software. However I feel that there needs to be a lot of discipline in the organization to be able to implement this solution well which I feel we are not ready as yet.

We regret to inform you that we will be unable to go ahead in implementing this."

You can file this under “things so obvious that it feels stupid to even mention them”, but it’s still an important difference. In setting up a consumer marketing system, the primary discussion is always around where the data will come from and how it will be managed. This accounts for most of the work and most of the cost. By very sharp contrast, B2B marketers rely primarily on their CRM system (that is, Salesforce.com or a competitor) as the primary data source, and complement that with information captured directly by the marketing automation systems’ own landing pages and Web tracking tags. The CRM integration can be set up in days, if not minutes, and next to no time is spent worrying about the marketing database design or update processes.