Top Challenges Facing Manufacturers in the Age of the Customer: MBTmag.com Interviews eLogic

[This interview was recently featured on MBT.com.  See the full article here.] MBT: How has customer engagement in manufacturing changed over the past 5 years? Mike Shields: Shifts in B2C practices over the past decade have spurred big changes, as customer engagement becomes a...

Categories: Manufacturing Industry Insights, News + Events

Tags: Age of the Customer, Collaboration, Customer Engagement, Integration, Knowledge Deployment, Manufacturing, Social Listening

Newly Released Whitepaper from Manufacturing.net, Manufacturing Business Technology & Microsoft

How to Drive Manufacturing With the Power of CRM

Categories: Microsoft Solutions, News + Events

Tags: Dynamics 365 for Sales, Manufacturing

Scalability -- Preventing and Mitigating Problems in Complex SAP Models

“A man’s got to recognize his limitations” – Dirty Harry "All limits are self-imposed” – Icarus Scalability is the ability of a model to grow in size and complexity, using the same design, without sacrificing efficiency.   It is...

Categories: SAP Solutions

Tags: SAP, Tech Tips + Tricks, Variant Configuration

SAPPHIRE 2016 Reflection: Digital Transformation

“Digital Transformation” was the primary theme of the 2016 SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference, with SAP reinforcing the slogan “Run Live, Run Simple.”  After attending the conference a few weeks ago, I would like to share my insights from the event.  While...

Categories: SAP Solutions, Manufacturing Industry Insights, News + Events

Tags: SAP

ALE Configuration in SAP LO-VC (Part 2)

In this part of the series we’ll focus on creating the distribution model and assigning message types related to Variant Configuration. By now, you should have your User, Logical Systems, and RFC connections configured from Part 1 of this blog series, via preliminary steps 1 through 3. As...

Categories: SAP Solutions

Tags: Configuration, SAP, Tech Tips + Tricks, Variant Configuration

How Dynamics CRM Online Enables Collaboration at all levels of your Organization

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (CRMOL) brings together the individual powers of your team by enabling collaboration with unprecedented success. With the ability to share notes and participate real-time on Sales Opportunities, across departments, oceans, and time zones, CRMOL creates a unified...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions

Tags: Collaboration, CRM for Manufacturers, Dynamics 365 for Sales

Reflection on Data Insights Summit March 2016

The first (hopefully of many) Data Insights Summit took place in March of 2016 in Bellevue, Washington. It was 2 days of exploring all that Power BI and related technologies have to offer. There is a whole collection of videos from the conference, so head over to the Power BI You Tube channel to...

Categories: Microsoft Solutions, Business Intelligence

Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft

ALE Configuration in SAP LO-VC (Part 1)

ALE (Application Link Enabling) is a means in which to transfer data between logical systems in SAP. This tool is used across many modules for sending master data and is especially common within the Variant Configuration world for transferring model dependencies, classification, user interfaces,...

Categories: SAP Solutions

Tags: SAP, Tech Tips + Tricks, Variant Configuration