Let’s face it, whether you’re a publicly or privately held company today, it’s quite likely that you will need to comply with at least one regulatory agency in order to meet your customers’ needs. Whether it’s ISO, FDA, SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), DOD, etc., you need a system that is robust enough to provide the necessary [...]
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Is Food, Cosmetic, and Drug Manufacturing Software FDA Approved?
I have been asked many times over the years if manufacturing or ERP software was FDA approved. Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, ERP software is not FDA approved, but rather can be utilized to follow and maintain your company’s processes to be compliant with the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP). If you [...]
continue reading...Was Y2K The Last Time You Evaluated ERP Software? See What Has Changed in 2011.
If you are old enough to remember the Spice Girls, you probably also remember the Y2K scare, when it seemed like the entire world was going to explode as the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000. Computers would simply fail if businesses did not empty their bank accounts to upgrade to Y2K compliant hardware [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP Helps Cut Through J-SOX Red Tape for Automotive Distributor
Many smaller companies quickly outgrow Peachtree by Sage accounting software. This familiar scenario unfolded recently for one of our clients, a Michigan automobile and auto parts distribution company. A subsidiary of a Japanese general trading company, the firm has fewer than 25 employees and annual sales between $5 million and $10 million. The growing company [...]
continue reading...What Are The Top 5 Business Issues Faced By Medical Device Manufacturers and Distributors, and How Does Microsoft Dynamics GP Help to Handle Those Issues?
By Mike Kean, Altico Advisors As the President of a company that specializes in Microsoft Dynamics GP systems for manufacturing and distribution with a sub-specialty in the medical device sector, I asked two of our Dynamics GP clients in the medical device sector to answer that question, i.e. how does Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains) [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. a Custom Application
By Scott Driggs, Custom Information Services I once worked with a client who had a rather interesting story to tell. The company was a family owned business that had been running a custom application for years and years. The owner retired and passed the reins of the company to the next generation. The new owners did [...]
continue reading...Serial, Lot Tracking and Traceability for Manufacturers
Food, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing companies along with anyone that has government contracts all know that quality control and lot traceability are paramount in the procurement and manufacturing process. With the current state of the Gulf of Mexico I am confident that companies who produce products for the oil industry are going to [...]
continue reading...25 Questions to Assess Your Financial and Membership Management Systems
A new Membership and Financial Management Solution Early Assessment Worksheet from BroadPoint Technologies can help Not for Profits and other membership based organizations do a self-check of their current systems.
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