by Gene Hammons | May 11, 2012 | ERP, Implementation
In a recent speech to some ERP customers, I was making the point that when implementing business software – the urge to customize is an opportunity. Not an opportunity to turn your company into a software development house, but an opportunity to improve...
by Gene Hammons | Apr 14, 2012 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Software Selection
Don’t know if it’s time to strike up the band and belt out Happy Days are Here again at CDC Software – but the last few week’s news can only be positive. Back in August of last year I’d written some observations under the headline...
by Gene Hammons | Sep 20, 2011 | ERP
Over the past few years, lots of really big companies have been blindsided by concepts, competitors and market forces that, with all their millions of dollars and thousands of really smart employees, never seemed to see coming. But you have nothing to worry...
by Gene Hammons | Aug 22, 2011 | ERP, Implementation, Software Selection
Editor’s note: The following post was published in 2011 – an upcoming book manuscript was in the editing process but had to be scrapped in early 2012, since the book basically said ‘financial information in the cloud will never catch on’ and...
by Gene Hammons | Aug 15, 2011 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Uncategorized
From 2005 to 2009, I worked for CDC Software in the Food and Beverage group – worked with a lot of great people, had some great successes, worked with some wonderful clients – but the company fell on hard times. Last week, (Aug 8) things at CDC hit...
by Gene Hammons | Sep 15, 2008 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
Q1 bottom line profits up $350K at the same time sales are off 17%! Recently we had a huge ‘win’ at a ERP implementation customer. And excuse the vagueness of detail, but many private companies like to stay ‘private’ that way. But here’s the story. Spring of...
