Lisa Dodson, Author at ERP Today

Lisa Dodson

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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.

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).

Analytics and AI

Make smarter, faster decisions with Sage Ai

Sage Ai automates tasks like processing invoices, gives you a real-time view of your business performance, and tells you what you can do to improve it. As technology moves forward, we move with it. Our 40 years of experience ensures you make the most of technology as it advances.

Financial Management

Expense management automation: Strategic insights for finance leaders

Explore advanced strategies for implementing expense management automation and how it can enhance compliance, efficiency, and financial insight.

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Analytics and AI

Adoption of AI in Manufacturing: A look into trends, strategies and challenges

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing is transforming decision-making, predictive maintenance, and quality control, with 80% of manufacturers investing in AI to enhance efficiency and innovation, despite facing integration challenges that require clear strategies and investment in workforce upskilling.

Security

Cybersecurity in ERP: Protecting Business Data in the Age of Rising Threats

Manufacturers are increasingly focusing on enhancing cybersecurity for their ERP systems to protect sensitive data and mitigate risks associated with cyber-attacks, which can lead to substantial financial losses and reputational damage.

ERP Strategy and Planning

How Manufacturers Can Start Using AI in ERP

The article discusses the potential benefits and challenges of integrating AI into manufacturing ERP systems, highlighting various effective use cases such as predictive maintenance and demand forecasting, while emphasizing the importance of quality data, workforce readiness, and a structured approach to implementation.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Rodda’s Video Case Study

In 1890, Eliza Jane Rodda started making clotted cream in a farmhouse in Cornwall. Fast forward over 130 years, and Rodda’s family business is now a global exporter, transforming quality Cornish milk from local dairy farms into Cornish clotted cream, churned butter, shortbread, fudge, and bottling and supplying fresh and Barista Cornish milk nationwide.

CRM and Customer Experience

ERP CRM Software

Our ERP CRM Software links SFDC Sales Cloud to Rootstock’s native ERP on the Salesforce Platform for inventory-heavy organizations, making connectivity with sales and supply chain operations seamless.

Data and Data Management

Rootstock’s Spring 2025 Product Release Highlights

Watch this video to discover our latest innovations in Rootstock's Spring 2025 product release! This release brings the Rootstock Field Section Component for better record management, 360-Degree Pages for unified data views, and key financial and operational enhancements like improved PO-AP matching, inventory management, and intelligent product selection. Plus, a refined Lightning-optimized user experience.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Case Study: Scot JCB

The implementation of a new ERP system was an opportunity to rethink our operations and how we could leverage data to power-up faster, better decision-making. Cooper Software’s design team helped us navigate these changes – and more – initiating new capabilities and functionality along the way.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Case Study: Rodda’s Clotted Cream

IFS gives us live data showing the progress of shop orders as they’re being made, so our planning team can see how production is working, and our logistics side can see when orders are coming in and product needs to be dispatched. IFS provides traceability with just a couple of clicks because it tracks the whole process through from end to end.