9 Reasons Supply Chain Companies are Racing to Cloud ERP

1.

Distribution, Manufacturing and Retail companies, faced with unyielding pressure to improve customer service and maintain profits, are seizing cost and productivity advantages from cloud business management solutions.

of strategic buyers cite scalability, cost and business agility as the most important drivers for using cloud services.

71%

Support digital commerce Cloud ERP allows supply chain companies to take advantage of leading edge digital business requirements without big hardware investments.

2. Agility to evolveEnterprise level financial and operational functionality give supply chain companies the flexibility to expand into new markets and support mergers and acquisitions.

3. Simplify employee experiencesModern cloud applications give employees the ease-of-use and functionality they expect—so they won’t work around the system.

4.Support a mobile workforceThe ever-increasingly mobile workforce needs access to company information and productivity tools, like Office 365, to work efficiently at home or in the field.

5. Improve communication and collaborationStronger connections with other employees,customers and trading partners through integrated, unified communication and collaboration tools builds profitable relationships.

6.

Break down the information silosTo remain competitive, supply chain companies have to keep everyone working as a team, with data flowing across departments.

8.

Reduce manual processesSupply chain companies manage more volume without adding more personnel with efficient, automated systems, allowing employees to focus on profit-making work instead of data entry and admin.

7. Implement world-class securitySecurity, backups and disaster recovery from a trusted cloud partner protect financial data and systems at a higher level and lower cost than in-house.

9. Secure company and customer dataAs supply chain companies becomes more dependent on digital assets—from data to documents—the importance of protecting those resources has become critical.

Employee competencies identified by Supply Chain Executives as gaining importance over the next five years.

Leadership and problem solving

Collaborate across functions

Negotiate and collaborate with value chain partners

74%

68%

64%

Potential reduction in training time and costs with intuitive, easy-to-use ERP interface.

Of business decision makers worldwide say the cloud lets them be more agile in their business operations.

Of business hit by disaster never reopen.

$1,141potential increase in annual revenue per person through

improved organizational productivity from an effective,

integrated ERP system.

80%

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17%increase in mobile user

productivity when companies extend ERP

to those employees.

Sources: Gigaom Research, IDC: Gaining the ERP Edge, Deloitte Supply Chain Talent of the Future Survey 2015, Techaisle 2015 SMB Cloud Adoption Trends Study, Techaisle SMB Segmentation study

Interconnectivity between ERP and productivity apps

can reduce operational costs by

13%

40%

61%

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