Sage ERP X3 Usability makes it easier for mid range companies with international goals to expand their presence in the world market. Sage ERP X3 can help you achieve your long and short term goals.
Sage ERP X3 Usability makes it easier for mid range companies with international goals to expand their presence in the world market. Sage ERP X3 can help you achieve your long and short term goals.
Topics: ERP, sage erp x3, oates and company, enterprise resource planning, john shepperson, oates co, international business, usability
Posted by John Shepperson | Dec 20, 2013 2:30:00 PM
In our last post we listed some of the pros and cons of both industry specific software and enterprise resource planning software. Now we're going to expound upon some of those topics and show you why ERP systems are the way to go.
Topics: ERP, enterprise resource planning, john shepperson, software choices, industry specific software, disadvantages, advantages, versus, oates co
Posted by John Shepperson | Dec 20, 2013 12:46:00 PM
We talk A LOT about enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems on our blog, and for good reason: they are the best bet for your business. If you follow along with us, you've read about how ERP systems work, and what kind of mistakes you should avoid if you implement one, and what stages you'll go through to do so. Et cetera.
Topics: ERP, oates and co, enterprise resource planning, software, john shepperson, software choices, generic software, industry specific software, disadvantages, EMR, advantages, POS, CAD, positives, negatives
Posted by John Shepperson | Dec 16, 2013 3:52:00 PM
Businesses invest in ERP systems for a number of reasons – ERP systems increase business intelligence, reduce costs, and streamline processes. Although the benefits are promising, however, studies show that over 60% of ERP implementations fail to live up to their users’ expectations.
The developers of Sage ERP X3 have several pieces of advice for businesses that want to implement an ERP system.
Topics: ERP, ERP implementation, oates and co, sage erp x3, business intelligence, integration, john shepperson, best practices, return on investment
What a company must remember in the event of a catastrophe is that more than just the physical location of the business will be lost. Customer information, sales data, and employee expertise are also at risk in the event of a disaster, and a smart business will have kept this in mind when assessing and planning for risks. They must have insurance, yes, to replace the building(s) and their physical inventory, but they should also have a plan as to how to recover their data as well.
Topics: oates and co, cloud services, john shepperson, data backup, catastrophe, data recovery, disaster, weather
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and customer relationship management (CRM) software usage has become common across businesses of all sizes. The new idea is to take the ERP software and the CRM software and integrate them.
Topics: ERP, oates and co, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, crm, integration, john shepperson, back end, front end
After a brief hiatus from The 6 Stages of ERP Implementation, we are back to discuss the next stage.
Topics: ERP, oates and co, erp implementation phase, go live, john shepperson, implementation stage, erp configuration, user training
We all know that time is money. And if you’re losing stock or sales because you’re having inventory issues, you’re losing money by the minute.
If this is happening to you, you want to start saving money right away – which means it’s time to start using wireless inventory management.
Topics: oates and co, RFID, radio frequency, inventory management, inventory, john shepperson, data transfer, wireless inventory, wireless inventory management
Posted by John Shepperson | Dec 4, 2013 3:00:00 PM
At Oates & Company, we are proud to work with Sage products, whether that means their enterprise resource planning systems, their customer relationship management solutions, their cloud services, their business intelligence modules, or any combination of them.
Topics: ERP, oates and co, Sage Software, enterprise resource planning, business management, john shepperson, the sage group, sage changes
The Sage Group, as we’ve discussed before, offers many useful business products, including enterprise resource planning systems (Sage 100 ERP and Sage ERP X3, for example) and customer relationship management software (SageCRM, for example). While The Sage Group already has a global presence with more than 6 million customers and 13,000 employees, they are now expanding yet again – this time further into Africa.

Topics: oates and co, sage erp x3, 100 ERP, sage africa, john shepperson, africa, the sage group, sage pastel accounting, lagos, lagos africa, Ivan Epstein, hr africa