Cloud ERP financials and supply chain

Enterprise hits and misses - retailers grapple with the global supply chain, radical workplace flexibility gets a call-out, and Dreamforce 2021 is in the books This article is sponsored by:

This week - global supply chain instability has retailers scrambling, with holiday season bearing down. Radical workplace flexibility gets another advocate, and our Dreamforce 2021 coverage is ready whenever you are. Your whiffs include Apple's privacy gaffe, and the limits of AI music.

Extracting value from cloud ERP in a customer-first world - what should we be pushing for? This article is sponsored by:

The cloud ERP benefits debate doesn't go away - nor should it. Customers don't magically achieve business benefits by flipping the go-live switch. But in a customer-first era, is ERP even relevant? That's a good place to start this epic - which includes my updated ERP benefits stages.

The global supply chain is still struggling - with profound implications for enterprise production plans This article is sponsored by:

The clogged global supply chain has exposed the fragility of what Thomas Friedman called our 'flat world'. What are the enterprise implications?

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Perform 2021 - Imperial Dade sets its sights on continuous planning with Planful This article is sponsored by:

Imperial Dade has consolidated data from multiple ERPs into Planful and is now giving finance teams better and regular insights.

Perform 2021 - LifeStance Health gets out of Excel and automates FP&A with Planful This article is sponsored by:

LifeStance Health was spending too much manual time on budgets and reports and has since created a ‘single source of truth’ with Planful.

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The ugly, persistent payroll issues few talk about This article is sponsored by:

Whoever uttered that old phrase “The more things change; the more things stay the same”, must have been thinking of payroll software. Some thorny payroll technology problems are like bad houseguests: they won’t ever go away! Before you change your payroll or HR technology, read this!

Data in motion is headlining in the golden age of customer experience This article is sponsored by:

If your data remains still, so does your customer experience. Peter Reeve of Confluent shares three industry examples of data in motion that have kept customer attention.

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Perform 2021 - How Specialized took workforce planning from an uphill climb to a level sprint This article is sponsored by:

Speaking at Perform 21, the finance team at top cycling brand Specialized describes how they used Planful to streamline global workforce planning

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Oracle delivers solid Q1 as Larry Ellison wants to know where the cloud ERP competition is This article is sponsored by:

Where's the competition in cloud ERP? In IaaS, the answer is clear...

How to align sales and finance to achieve a customer-centric approach This article is sponsored by:

One view to rule them all - Ravi Narula, CFO of FinancialForce, shares three steps to align sales and finance in the interests of your customers and your organization.

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Workday acquires Zimit to bring CPQ automation to the services industry This article is sponsored by:

Workday deepens its proposition for the services industry with the acquisition of services CPQ specialist Zimit.

ERP’s new direction - it’s coming from the outside This article is sponsored by:

There is an explosion of new capabilities and opportunities possible with ERP today and many of the most innovative are coming from non-ERP vendors. All of this innovation should be making us re-think the value we are or should be getting from ERP software. Here are some ideas.

Uncertainty levels remain high, but customers are embracing increased spend, says Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn This article is sponsored by:

A strong Q2 for Coupa as Business Spend Management remains a compelling imperative for organizations across multiple sectors.