Best Practices for Effective BOM Management
It’s critical for manufacturers to have tight control over the raw materials, parts, and components that make up a finished product. Especially today, as fragile supply chains stretch across...
View ArticleIMTS 2022 – Manufacturers Are Back!
Manufacturers are back! Not that manufacturing has been on a hiatus by any means, but the International Manufacturing Technology Show—traditionally held every two years—was back in action, in Chicago,...
View ArticleStu Johnson, Newly Promoted VP of Product Marketing, Maps the Manufacturer’s...
If you’ve had the pleasure of logging onto a video-conferencing call with Stu Johnson, our newly promoted VP of Product Marketing, you’re sure to notice his backdrop. Posted on the wall behind his desk...
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How To Choose The Right Capacity Planning Strategy
Manufacturers are obsessed with productivity, and rightly so. But optimizing productivity requires insights across the operations and up and down the supply and demand chains. You need to know what you...
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ERP vs. MRP: Understanding the Difference
ERP vs MRP Explained What is the difference between ERP vs MRP systems? There’s plenty of confusion around both terms, given their features and similarities. What no one disputes is that both tools...
View ArticleGartner Details “4 Critical Components” for Speeding Up Your Digital...
Digital transformation is a term that means many things, even to an individual manufacturer. You’ve likely been in an ongoing digital transformation since you rolled out email in the ‘90s, ERP in the...
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Enabling Modern Digital Supplier Collaboration with Supplier RFQ
To compete in today’s increasingly volatile economy, manufacturers need a connected, automated, real-time means to manage supply chains, source new groups of suppliers, and collaborate with individual...
View ArticleInflation, Layoffs, Recession: 3 Ways Manufacturers Can Prepare for More...
Anyone who has been in manufacturing for more than a decade has seen a version of this scenario before. Consumers slow their spending, companies miss their targets, stock prices fall, and cost-cutting...
View ArticleRootstock Q4 Manufacturing News Roundup
Welcome to Rootstock Software’s Manufacturing News Roundup. We’ve assembled a list of the most relevant and engaging industry news from the recent quarter. This news update can help you stay up to...
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The Complete Guide to Manufacturing Business Intelligence (BI)
Manufacturing business intelligence or BI is the process of collecting, reporting, and interpreting data to inform strategic decisions that can be used to drive continuous improvements. The Importance...
View ArticleThe Basics of Effective Shop Floor Control
Manufacturers need shop floor control in order to effectively schedule, track, and report on work orders and their progress through the production process. Work progress is usually defined as a...
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The Root Group – Rootstockers ready to chart new waters together
Sometimes, a customer leads a company into new territory. In this case, a dozen Rootstock customers did just that. Welcome our guest blogger Chad Wright, CIO at Boston Dynamics, Rootstock...
View ArticleNanophase: Faster, More Visibility Than Ever Before
Welcome to the first in a series of weekly installments of a new Rootstock blog series: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our...
View ArticleHow to Improve Supply Chain Demand Planning
Best Practices for Improving Supply Chain Demand Planning The supply chain is critical to ensuring manufacturers have the raw materials, components, and other supplies necessary to produce finished...
View ArticleEquipter: “We’ve grown 30% year over year since implementing Rootstock”
Welcome to a new series of weekly blogs profiling Rootstock customers: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our customers. This...
View Article4 Key Takeaways from the webinar “State of ERP 2023: Future of ERP for...
As business strategies for the new year emerge, so do challenges facing manufacturing organizations- from technology adoption to macro-economic conditions, there is a large amount of uncertainty ahead...
View ArticleBACA Systems: “Our stock-out rates decreased 70% with Rootstock”
Welcome to a new blog series profiling Rootstock customers: Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Each week, we will highlight a “signal of success” for one of our customers. This series intends...
View ArticleBest Practices for Developing a Two-Tier ERP Consolidation Strategy
Does your three-letter acronym for enterprise resource planning, or ERP, end with an “s”? If so, you’re a manufacturer on track to right-size those ERPs with an ERP consolidation strategy or maybe even...
View ArticleBuilt to Serve: ERP and Field Services on the Salesforce Platform
Manufacturers need powerful tools to stay competitive and meet the demands of their customers, while doing more with less. While strong individually, when Rootstock Manufacturing ERP and Salesforce...
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Why Cloud Modernization is a Must for 21st-Century Manufacturers
With its dependency on legacy and often decades-old equipment, controllers, and systems, the industrial manufacturing sector has been slow to embrace the complete digital transformation undertaken by...
View Article10 Features to Look for in Manufacturing Inventory Management Software
Selecting an inventory management software for your manufacturing enterprise is not a decision to be made lightly. To make your decision easier, we’ve provided a list of the ten most important features...
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Manufacturing KPIs: How to Determine the Most Important Ones
Manufacturing is a data intensive business and the best companies use all the information at their disposal to plan their work and work their plan. That plan, better described as their strategy, relies...
View ArticleBalancing Inventory & Supply Chain Management with ERP for Manufacturing
The complexities of balancing inventory and supply chain management are enormous. Each element offers its own challenges, but they must also work in concert to help manufacturers meet demand...
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Manufacturing Tech Survey Results: You Can’t Save Your Way to Growth
It’s an old adage that you “can’t save your way to prosperity” or “cut your way to growth.” But in today’s uncertain and volatile world, there seems to be plenty of watercooler talk in manufacturing...
View ArticleAgile Manufacturing vs Lean Manufacturing: Which is More Important for Your...
The debate among Lean manufacturing vs Agile manufacturing zealots made headlines regularly during the supply chain disruptions of the past several years. Advocates for each defended their approach as...
View ArticleRise of the Machines: Manufacturers Aim to Unlock the Power of Enterprise AI
Many believe manufacturers are delaying software spending due to the economy, but there is strong evidence to the contrary. In IDC’s InfoBrief, 2023 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey, sponsored...
View ArticleIndustria: Rootstock is the Core Platform for Their Continued Growth
Success Signals: Customer Chronicles Industria Innovations Industria Innovations, based in the Toronto ONT area, supports retailers and brands in their private label needs within home furnishings. As...
View ArticleStreamlining Your Production Planning for Optimal Efficiency
Production planning manages everything needed to run your manufacturing operations, from workers and materials to schedules and equipment, and everything in between. Your manufacturing operations and...
View Article6 Benefits of Using ERP for Financial Management & Accounting
Manufacturers of all sizes continue to feel the strain of economic uncertainty, supply chain and workforce constraints, and widening skills gaps. That’s in addition to the manufacturing industry’s...
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Best Practices for Engineering Change Management
The only thing you can always count on in product development is change. Engineers will continue to change and improve a product design until it is done–or they run out of time. Updating dimensions or...
View ArticleManufacturing Accounting 101: Key Methods and Concepts
Manufacturers take a unique approach to accounting because they don’t just ship, sell, and service goods – they create goods. Manufacturers also procure the raw materials and components necessary to...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing CRM Software
Manufacturing CRM (customer relationship management) software allows industrial organizations to not only gain visibility into real-time customer, order, and sales data but also provides a base for...
View Article3 Key Takeaways from Rootstock’s First Women in Manufacturing Event
Manufacturing is thriving. According to Axios, 800,000 new jobs have been added in the U.S. since President Biden took office, and spending on new manufacturing factories is triple the average rate...
View ArticleGovernment Shutdown Averted: Manufacturers Breathe a Collective Sigh of Relief
On Saturday, September 30—with just 32 minutes left on the clock—the country was spared from a federal government shutdown, as Congress passed a 45-day budget which would keep things running. Hearing...
View ArticleRootstock Ranks Among Top Manufacturing ERP Solutions: Why We Consistently...
For over 15 years, discrete manufacturers have chosen Rootstock Software to digitally transform their businesses. Built on the Salesforce Platform, Rootstock offers a native connection between its...
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AI in Manufacturing: Revolutionizing Efficiency & Innovation
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing today because it promises to change everything, from managing our day-to-day lives to managing a massive manufacturing facility....
View ArticleWhy You Should Attend the Salesforce Manufacturing Summit
Unleashing Innovation: Why You Should Attend the Salesforce Manufacturing Summit Registration is now open for the much anticipated Salesforce Manufacturing Summit in Atlanta January 10th. In the...
View Article5 Ways to Maximize Your Manufacturing Operation Management Success
What is Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)? Manufacturing operations management (MOM) is the process of controlling the structure and systems used by manufacturers to produce products...
View ArticleUnveiling the Powerhouse Behind Rootstock: Joshua Tillotson, Manufacturing...
When it comes to leading the pack of manufacturing ERP solutions, having a seasoned expert like Joshua Tillotson on board is a game-changer for Rootstock’s customers. Holding the title of Manufacturing...
View ArticleTop Trends in Manufacturing Automation
Manufacturing automation continues to advance at a breakneck pace. Technological innovations fuel much of that progress, but automation in manufacturing goes far beyond robotic assembly lines and...
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Mobile ERP: Solutions for Modern Manufacturing
What is Mobile ERP? Most manufacturers are familiar with or have long utilized ERP software, or enterprise resource planning software. It helps production, operations, finance, accounting, human...
View ArticleReinvigorating the Rootstock Success Community
The Success Community is the go-to online hub for all things Rootstock—the place where customers connect with other users, partners, and Rootstock employees to discuss product and technical topics;...
View ArticleRootstock’s 100th Learning Hour: A Milestone Celebration
On September 4, 2024, our Enablement Team will be hosting our 100th Learning Hour—an event that marks a significant milestone and a cause for celebration. Rootstock’s Learning Hours are live,...
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Advancing MRP for Manufacturers
Let’s look at the concept of MRP, how it has become critical to manufacturing productivity, and where AI innovations are boosting its value. The Evolution of Materials Requirements Planning...
View ArticleThe Rootstock Idea Factory: Assembling ERP Innovation from Raw Ideas
During our milestone 100th Learning Hour, we debuted our new ideas portal, aptly named the Rootstock Idea Factory. This innovative portal enables Rootstock customers to submit potential ideas for...
View ArticleDreamforce 2024: Strengthening Partnerships & Embracing AI
Attending Dreamforce 2024 provided Rootstock with significant opportunities to engage with manufacturers, revel in the power of AI, and strengthen our relationships within the Salesforce ecosystem....
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Master Inventory With 6 Ways to Optimize Stock & Boost Profits
Getting a handle on inventory is an art as much as a science, especially as all the critical manufacturing metrics around supply chains, workforces, output, and market demand continue to flip-flop...
View ArticleBest Practices for CI/CD with Rootstock ERP
Recently, a Salesforce DevOps professional reached out, seeking best practice guidance on implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with Rootstock ERP. The post sparked a robust...
View ArticleBill Winans Builds Rootstock’s Partner Ecosystem for Greater Customer Success
If you’ve ever had the chance to chat with Bill Winans, our Senior Director of Global Alliances, you’d know that he’s a builder—both in his career and in his hobbies. While his day-to-day is about...
View ArticleWhy You Should Attend the 2025 Salesforce Manufacturing Summit
Registration is now open for the highly anticipated Salesforce Manufacturing Summit, taking place at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead on January 15, 2025. This full-day event is your gateway to the...
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