Over recent years the retail environment has become increasingly tough for Australia’s retailers, as weakening consumer demand has intersected with rising costs and the emergence of alternatives to the traditional bricks and mortar shop. In particular, shoppers have responded with gusto to the new multi-channel world, with most consumers now using a combination of physical and digital channels as part […]

There is a price to pay in ignoring the Seven Stiflers—the inability to react quickly to business events as they occur. CFOs who cannot discern their company’s performance might as well retreat to the back offices of yesteryear, crunching the numbers of the previous quarter in their green eye-shades. To join the modern breed of strategic, predictive CFOs requires quickly […]

As well as simplifying and speeding financial consolidation for the CFO, a cloud-based two-tier ERP system delivers more complete, up-to-the-minute information to the CEO and everyone else in the executive suite. Much more than simply a platform for improved financial consolidation and governance, it provides a foundation for a modern, coordinated, agile and innovative enterprise that is truly global in […]

As the pace of innovation accelerates, many companies find it challenging for their IT to support the changing needs of the business. To maintain relevance and drive growth, companies must innovate – and need flexible, agile technology to support them. The pressure is on IT to lower cost, and at the same time support growth. This white paper explores the […]

A new generation of Industrial Distributors is defying convention. Rather than buying into the traditional rule book—scaling back investments during challenging economic times— innovative distributors see the upside. Leveraging technology and innovative approaches, a new generation of management writes new rules for the sector, extending their business models to gain market share.

As a distributor of goods in today’s challenging economy, you face increasingly global competition, growing complexity of supply chains and trade regulations, and continued volatility of oil prices impacting transportation cost. And to top it off, you most likely operate on razor thin margins. World Class Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations have been shown to address these challenges and produce […]

The talent gap and the technology divide are both widening, while global economic uncertainty and other supply chain disruptions are still looming. Is your distribution business positioning itself to face these and other challenges in 2015? Download this new benchmark report, based on a survey of nearly 200 distribution businesses by Modern Distribution Management in partnership with NetSuite. Get deep […]

There’s a disturbing trend reemerging in our client inquiries of late: rising demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and purchases of solutions that are not really SaaS. When we inform clients that the solution they’re talking about isn’t SaaS, we are increasingly hearing, “So what? As long as I don’t have to run it, it’s better.” This is a trap that […]