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Women in Manufacturing bridging the labor gap

Skilled labor shortages is a big pain point for manufacturers, and women may be the answer to filling those shortages. Even though women make up about half of the workforce, women’s jobs in manufacturing hover around 30% and have been going down in recent years. A study done in 2013 showed that even though the […]

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business management software

Exact Macola 10 Andriod App is Now Available!

The Macola 10 iOS app has been around for a while, so it was exciting news when Exact Macola announced their Macola 10 Andriod App release in May 2016. The interface is intuitive and helps employees that need mobile access to their calendar, workflows, documents, accounts, or have a need to lookup inventory levels and […]

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business management software

FSMA Overview: A Look at The FDA’s Seven Major Rules

President Obama signed FSMA, Food Safety Modernization Act, into law January 4th, 2011. It’s considered the most sweeping reform of food safety laws in more over 70 years. The Act was put into motion to ensure that U.S. food, for both humans and animals, are safe for consumption by focusing on preventing vs. reacting to […]

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erp enterprise resource planning

Is Your ERP Working as Hard as it Can?

Imagine you are running a company and every workstation in your office is an Apple IIe. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’ve invested in top of the line computers for your entire staff, only for them to use them for email, word processing and nothing else. In the first scenario, you are […]

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Enterprise resource management

4 Signs it’s Time to Implement ERP

For most small to mid-sized business owners, growth is the ultimate goal. For those businesses that actually accomplish sustained growth, eventually difficult decisions will arise. Just like you eventually outgrew your favorite pair of shoes growing up, your business will eventually outgrow the software systems you’ve put in place to run your day to day […]

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Customer relationship management software

ISM: Manufacturing Activity Expanded in July 2016

For the fifth straight month, the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PSI) showed that the manufacturing activity expanded. There was a slight ease during the month of July, but the overall view of the report shows that manufacturers are doing better now than during the October 2015 – February 2016 time […]

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ERP Platform

3 Ways ERP Can Automate Your Human Resources

When people think of ERP they immediately think of the ways it can automate their operations. From warehouse management to invoicing customers, there are countless ways that ERP can help streamline day to day processes and improve the bottom line. One thing that most people overlook when evaluating an ERP system is human resources. Most […]

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