From ERP to Industry 4.0: Our ERP-blog for digital transformation in industry

Ever more manufacturing companies - in their efforts to acquire new customer groups and remain competitive into the future - are faced with the challenge of orienting their products and services to ever more specific customer requirements.

Digitisation and worldwide networking of systems and processes along the value-added chain will not only present new challenges to IT and ERP systems but will also offer production companies considerable future potential and degrees of freedom.

Many companies still struggle with isolated planning data and manual processing, which makes coordination and evaluation time-consuming and error-prone. With Data Plus Table, data can be entered and edited directly in the dashboard and evaluated in real time, making planning processes more transparent and flexible.

Revolutionary reporting: Automated, customised reports without installations. Unlimited users, seamless Active Directory integration and security standards. With management and repository APIs and included Qlik Dashboards.

The world of business intelligence is constantly changing, and many companies continue to rely on the tried-and-tested QlikView for their data analysis. However, with increasing demands on modern BI solutions, QlikView is increasingly reaching its technological limits. Its successor, Qlik Sense, on the other hand, offers innovative features that have the potential to fundamentally change the BI landscape.

Mobile access to company data in real time is today a routine part of everyday business life for many companies. In order to ensure smooth workflows within the company’s own work environment, a high level of information and process transparency, short decision-making paths and fast response times are required.

Next to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and blockchain (cryptographic linking of datasets) the IoT (Internet of Things) constitutes another key technology that sustainably revolutionises our IT and increasingly also our Cloud-based working environments.

VlexPlus ERP digitises the sales process from the initial enquiry to the quotation and the sales order. The core functions of CPQ software – from price calculation to product configuration and the creation of quotation documents – are already included as standard in the VlexPlus complete ERP solution.

Customised requests regarding colours, materials, dimensions and features are becoming increasingly challenging for manufacturing companies using conventional ERP systems. The complex processes involved, from costing to logistics, require intelligent automation and data management in order to manage the growing workload.

Germany is one of the leading industrial nations worldwide and a market leader in many sectors of industry. But the competition never sleeps. Intensive international rivalry between European nations and rapidly growing emerging economies is constantly increasing pressure on German companies to improve their own competitiveness.