ERP News
Watching the Wheels Come Off
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 bottom. The...
The Inside Scoop on Intel Inside
You can contact Gene via GH@GeneHammons.com. I remember Richard Nixon, in some speech, somewhere, calling himself "The Education President". I can remember George W. Bush making near the same claim while passing the Teddy Kennedy authored "No Child Left Behind"...
Making Sausage
The title of this new blog effort - Making Sausage - takes a look at stories behind the scenes at food producers. Mostly from a perspective of ERP software and other IT improvements - probably because that's where I play. I've been doing this for some time - managing...
Strategic ERP Deployment in a Down Economy
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...
The Sad Saga of Snoburst Bottling
"We can’t afford to save 36 jobs and an $8m Company!" They didn't use those words, but that's what they said. The Partners Snoburst Bottling is the story of two partners, Jim* the Entrepreneur and Stuart* the Accountant. Jim’s role was to find and secure...
AI for Manufacturers and BI for All – Competing on Analytics
UPDATE: This 2007 Article predated our current drive to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and reliance on Big Data or BI (Business Intelligence) but caught the trend as it emerged and has served as the basic theory behind the monetization of data - or how exactly do we...