Lisa Dodson
217 Articles Published
Financial Management
Intercompany Invoicing
Aico eliminates manual intercompany invoice matching as the reference field in the correct sister company’s ledger is identical. 
Financial Management
Closing Task Manager
Access a centralised dashboard that provides real-time updates on every stage of the financial close process. Tasks are seamlessly linked, so one team member can pick up where another left off, ensuring continuity and efficiency.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Aico to SAP integration
Aico has created a unique real-time integration for SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC. This means data between these ERPs and Aico is streamed in real-time instead of transferred via periodic file downloads and uploads. This allows you to refresh the latest financial data from your ERP in seconds, not hours or days. Aico's real-time ERP integration stands out as both unique among financial close solutions and best-in-class.
Financial Management
Accelerating Digital Transformation and Billing Modernization
By focusing fully on all potential sources of value, a truer picture emerges, one that focuses on the impact on the business rather than a narrower cost savings discussion. An independent revenue platform also contains a valuable source of data on customer behavior and product and service performance.
Modular Cloud Transformation and Composable ERP
ERP Strategy and Planning
Yes, Agile Works for ERP Implementations
Agile methodologies are transforming ERP implementations by enhancing flexibility, accelerating delivery, and aligning closely with business outcomes, leading to significantly higher success rates and productivity compared to traditional waterfall approaches.
Financial Management
Case Study: 24 Hour Fitness
Learn how 24 Hour Fitness overcame ERP limitations by implementing Zuora to support new pricing strategies, improve billing agility, and better serve over 1 million members.
Financial Management
Modernizing ERPs for Order-to-Cash
Traditional ERPs weren’t built for today’s dynamic revenue models. Zuora helps modernize your order-to-cash journey by decoupling billing, revenue, and subscription management from legacy systems.
Financial Management
Zuora Connector for SAP Solutions
Discover how Zuora complements SAP by adding agility to order-to-cash processes, freeing businesses from rigid ERP billing systems and enabling faster, recurring revenue growth.
Business Process Management and Automation
Rootstock Enterprise Insights
Discover actionable business insights with Rootstock’s Enterprise Insights, a manufacturing ERP analytics solution. Leverage out-of-the-box, organization-specific dashboards to monitor KPIs and gain greater business intelligence across your manufacturing business.
Financial Management
Rootstock Financials
With Rootstock Financials, product companies gain full finance visibility, robust planning and analysis, and more accurate forecasting so teams can make better, faster decisions with confidence.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Rootstock ERP
One connected ERP platform and partner ecosystem to support the entire operations for product companies, including manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. Effectively manage demand to predict production capacity while making decisions faster with a 360° view – accessible from anywhere and on any connected device. Partner with Rootstock to accelerate your success.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Overcoming OGL Challenges For Redwood Adoption Success!
Oracle Redwood presents new processes and an overall new experience for users. Oracle Guided Learning supports users during the adoption and can ease the anxiety during this learning curve and aid in aligning to the UI change. Our dedicated-OGL team have developed and tested OGL within the Redwood environment and as a result they have acquired many tips and tricks through their lessons learnt.
Supply Chain Management
Navigating Global Trade: 3 Insights for Leaders
Almost all companies are grappling with the rapidly shifting dynamics of global trade, requiring them to rethink how they manage their supply chains, model different market scenarios, and even how they plan and develop their workforces. The following explores three main ways that operations, finance, and HR leaders, supported by the latest technologies, can help their companies navigate the increasing complexity and risks of global trade. Here is where to start.
Business Process Management and Automation
Innovating From the Edges: Making Products for Underserved Audiences
In the video, Dave Lankford, former VP of Product of Advanced Innovation at Disney Streaming, discusses the process and challenges of innovating from the fringes of traditional practices.
Digital Commerce
Case Study: The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail transformed its subscription platform by implementing Zuora Billing and Zephr to enhance digital product sales, streamline processes, and improve subscriber management, ultimately allowing for greater agility and the introduction of diverse offerings.
Financial Management
Key metrics to monitor in order management
Effective order management, underpinned by key metrics such as order accuracy rate, order cycle time, inventory turnover rate, on-time delivery rate, and order fulfillment cost per order, is essential for optimizing operations, enhancing customer satisfaction, and driving long-term business success.
Financial Management
Revenue recognition is complex. We make it simple.
With pre-built connectors to leading ERPs, compatibility to Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure, and a one-click onboarding experience, Zuora Revenue easily fits into any ecosystem. You can expect to get started quick and see value fast.
Zuora Monetization Catalog
Financial Management
Scale your revenue growth with AI payment optimization
As your customers change how they want to access your products and services, you have to evolve how you do business. Learn more about how our leading Subscription Economy® solutions have helped many of the world’s most innovative subscription businesses succeed.
Financial Management
Zuora Billing
Zuora Billing is the leading solution for automating subscription, usage-based, and hybrid billing, offering flexibility and control to monetize any business model.
Analytics and AI
The Future of ERP Is Agentic
Tapping the New Digital Workforce of AI Agents to Transform ERP Testing and Lifecycle Management
Cloud Platform and Technology
The 2025 State of Cloud & ERP Operations Report
Despite the widespread adoption of cloud ERP, enterprises continue to struggle with missed deadlines, budget overruns, and unmet stakeholder expectations. These persistent challenges are largely driven by manual testing practices and inefficient support models, signaling a need for systemic change across the ERP lifecycle.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Fresh Produce ERP Buyer’s Guide: Finding the Right Solution for Your Business’s Needs
Aptean Fresh Produce ERP is hosted on the robust Microsoft Azure cloud offering a SaaS-native solution that ensures scalability, security and seamless integration. What’s more, the system’s AI-powered features transform data into actionable insights and empower your team to make smart decisions.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Beverage ERP Buyer’s Guide: Finding the Right Solution for Your Business’s Needs
Aptean Beverage ERP Drink-IT is a complete and easy-to-use beverage management solution covering your entire value chain. From ingredient sourcing and quality management to order fulfillment and customer service, it addresses all the unique challenges of the beverage industry.
Automation
Aptean’s Food and Beverage Solution Suite
Our software suite helps businesses digitalize and automate processes, mitigating human error and manual record-keeping, while also ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Supply Chain Management
Industry Expert eBook: Transforming the Fresh Produce Supply Chain
Discover how the right technology can transform your workflow from constant firefighting to effortless, proactive operations.
Automation
Industry Expert eBook: How Automation Powers Growth in the Food and Beverage Industry
To dive deep on this subject, the impetuses for automation, what it looks like in practice today and what it might look like in the future with the technology of tomorrow, we turned to some our internal subject matter experts.
Data and Data Management
Aptean Food & Beverage PLM
Bring people and proudct informaiton together-accelerating innovation processes and time to market with real-time data and enhanced collaboration.
Supply Chain Management
Aptean Food & Beverage TMS
Take the complexity out of managing your transportation operations and run your fleet using less time, less miles, less trucks and less drivers.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Aptean Food & Beverage ERP
Streamline operations, connect departments and boost process efficiency while adressing safety, regulatory and quality demands with our tailored food and beverage ERP built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Service Management
Omnichannel order management system: What it is and its benefits
As a business, you’re expected to offer your customers a seamless shopping experiences across multiple channels—whether they’re shopping online, in-store, or on mobile apps. Enter the omnichannel order management system (OMS).
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