Learn About Cloud ERP Software for Your Business
A cloud based ERP can help deliver on the promise of digital transformation, even for companies without a giant budget. Our goal is to help you take advantage of the latest advances in ERP platforms, integrations & extensions AND prepare for whatever comes next. Let’s begin.
What to Ask Before Buying Cloud ERP Software
- Is now the right time to move to an ERP cloud platform?
- How can you make the most of an online ERP system?
- Which cloud ERP solution is right for your business?
How to Select Cloud ERP Software
This guide will help you ask smart questions and avoid pitfalls while evaluating cloud ERP options.
Does Cloud Based ERP Make Sense for Your Business?
This mini ebook busts common myths about ERP and helps you understand the process of moving to the cloud.
Get Help to Select the Right ERP System
At Synergy Resources, we specialize in helping companies select, implement, and optimize ERP solutions. With over 1200 happy customers, we KNOW what it takes to ensure success for your ERP project.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Cloud ERP?
Cloud ERP or web based ERP is next generation enterprise resource planning software hosted securely online. Modern cloud architecture has many layers of security and redundancy at any scale. It provides a high-performing and affordable way for businesses to host their critical business software in a protected environment that is always available, backed up, and securely accessible from anywhere. Learn more with our free guide to cloud-based ERP.
How Can I Choose the Best Cloud ERP?
Selecting the right cloud ERP for your business means finding a match for your industry, your business processes, your budget, and more. Choosing a well-known and well-supported brand of ERP software is a smart bet since you will be growing your organization on the platform for years or decades to come. Be sure you understand the implementation process and the time to value before making a final decision. Talk to our team to understand your options.
What Is the Right Cloud Based ERP System for My Industry?
A mature platform that is built to be industry-specific from the ground up is often the right fit for a manufacturing business, while an emerging, highly modular solution can be ideal for an e-commerce or distribution company. A good match for your industry will be one that includes features that allow you to optimize your current business processes and integrate with the digital solutions that maximize revenue growth. Our free guide can help you ask the right questions to make a decision.
How Long Does Cloud ERP Implementation Take?
Because cloud ERP doesn’t require the purchase and installation of any on-site servers, it can be faster and more efficient than on-premise implementation. Once the software is selected and an implementation roadmap is designed, a pilot deployment occurs to test and prove the concept before rolling out the full system. With a focus on a phased approach to implementation, time to value is rapid while ongoing optimization adds more ROI the longer the cloud ERP solution is in place. Learn more about our Advantage-1 approach to ERP implementation here.
What’s The Best Way to Avoid ERP Implementation Failure?
Creating a roadmap that starts with business analysis is the first step, even before selecting which ERP should be deployed. This ensures alignment of the software selection with business goals. Designing the desired future state is next, which makes it possible to reverse engineer the ERP implementation process and ensure success. Testing deployment with a pilot implementation makes it easier to catch and correct issues before going live.
Having a game plan for phased deployment provides an opportunity to capture early value. Regular review and feedback will help keep the project on track and within budget. In short, the right partner with the right plan is your best bet at avoiding failure and making the most of your investment in cloud ERP software. Talk with our team to discover your right path forward.
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Aerospace & Defense
The aerospace, defense, space and security (A&D) industries are major contributors to our economy. They thrive if supported by scalable, industry specific applications. Synergy Resources’ applications and modules aid scientific and engineering talent in cutting-edge A&D industries. Synergy Resources helps you meet your goals faster-even while confronting escalating costs and market complexity.
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Highlights
- Engineering with CAD integration
- Engineering change control
- Specifications and data "flow down" for ITAR, DFAR, etc.
- Actual job costing
- Project Management with Earned Value Management and milestone reporting
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Automotive Manufacturing
As a manufacturer in the specialty vehicle industry, such as boats or emergency vehicles, you need a solution that can quickly respond to unique product configurations and accurately budget and manage actual costs associated with these jobs or projects. Infor ERP is it!
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Highlights
- Configuration management
- Serial and lot control
- Design and engineering
- Capacity planning & scheduling (Lean, TOC, JIT)
- Actual costing
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Distribution
Distributors of any size face many of the same global challenges, including rapidly changing customer demands, complex product inventories, and fluctuations in the supply chain. Synergy offers a single wholesale distribution ERP software that integrates and automates the entire quote-to-cash cycle.
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Highlights
- Manage Inventory
- Streamline Sales Orders
- Enhance Purchasing
- Know Your True Costs
- Paperless Processing
- Automate Cross-Company Transactions
- Ecommerce, Amazon & EDI Integration
- Matrix Items
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Electronics & High-Tech
As a high tech or electronic manufacturer, you need control over component and finished goods inventory at the revision and tracking number level to efficiently and effectively service customers. Infor VISUAL ERP delivers the supply chain visibility to meet these demands and also offers comprehensive material and capacity planning functionality, which maximizes productivity.
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Highlights
- Alternate item on bill of materials (BOM)
- Item cross reference (supplier and manufacturer)
- Approved vendors and manufacturer lists
- Supply chain visibility with Web based portals
- Reference designators
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Energy Manufacturing
Synergy has a track record of implementing the right software, deploying efficient business processes, and developing the right metrics. This provides you with the insight and visibility you need into business operations and drives desired behaviors.
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Optimize People, Processes, & Technology.
- Strengthen Your Supply Chain
- Sophisticated Project Management
- Connect Service Efforts to Operations
- Localization & Financial Accounting Visibility
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Field Service, Maintenance & Repair
Revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and strategic goals around competitive differentiation are requiring field service and MRO organizations to rapidly transform. Manufacturing companies that once outsourced field service are seeing the growth and profit potential of an "insourced" aftermarket service team. Staying competitive with solutions that allow you to track costs, improve inventory availability, and take advantage of digital technologies such as IIoT, GPS, and predictive AI is not only advantageous, but necessary.
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Highlights
- Improve Customer Satisfaction & First Time Fix Rate
- Reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Optimize Routing of Field Service Techs
- Support for Depot Repair, Break-Fix & More
- Offer Managed Service Contracts
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Furniture & Fixtures
Today's customers demand that furniture and fixture manufacturers offer new product lines and custom options for existing products on demand. We can help you build speed and flexibility into your engineering and production processes so you can meet expectations.
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Highlights
- Industry Expert Partners
- Increase Quote Win Rate
- Improve Planning & Scheduling
- Cut Operational Costs
- Shorten Product Development Lifecycles
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Industrial Equipment & Machinery
If you're like most of our equipment manufacturer customers, you compete by selling a complete solution that includes aftermarket services, countless configuration options, and available spare parts. Our solutions have a broad set of capabilities to meet your unique challenges. You'll have the control and visibility you need throughout the entire product lifecycle.
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Gain a competitive edge and extend your aftermarket offerings.
- Win More Business
- Meet Customer Delivery Expectations
- Increase Velocity of Spare Part Sales
- Collaborate With Suppliers & Customers
- Leave Your Competitors Behind
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Industrial Manufacturing
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Highlights
- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
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Medical Device Manufacturing
Synergy's Continuous Improvement teams have helped medical device manufacturers to increase productivity both in the office and on the shop floor. Our ERP products enable employees to complete assigned tasks faster and make more products without increasing costs.
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Highlights
- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
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Metal, Glass, & Plastic Fabrication
Our ERPs are purpose-built for MTO, ETO, CTO/ATO, MTS, and mixed-mode manufacturing companies. The end-to-end solutions helps manufacturers like you increase efficiency, accurately manage cost position, meet and exceed customer expectations, and accelerate growth.
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Highlights
- Purpose-Built ERP
- Estimate with Confidence
- Improve Delivery Performance
- Paperless Real-Time Shop Floor Data Collection
- The Right Materials at the Right Time
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Process Manufacturing
As a food, beverage, chemical, or life science manufacturer, you have specific requirements when it comes to your manufacturing operations. Infor CloudSuite Process makes it easy to adjust formulas based on exacting manufacturing specifications and to monitor and respond to the evolving regulatory environment.
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Highlights
- Flexible Formula Management
- Stay On Top of Quality Requirements & Regulations
- Build a Better Batch
- Lot Recall
- Process Workbench
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