GUEST BLOG: Discover how the powers of ERP can take your business to the next level

During times of uncertainty, ERP can prove transformational in building digital resilience, driving efficiency and improving productivity. At K3 Syspro, we have over 40 years of experience implementing ERP solutions and helping manufacturers gear up for growth.

At Subcon this year, our team will be taking centre stage, demonstrating how our toolkit of software solutions can boost competitiveness, drive business efficiencies and increase profitability, with every manufacturer or distributor that visits our stand able to book their very own free discovery session.

Manufacturers who put SYSPRO ERP at the heart of their operation are far better equipped to face the challenges of the global market place. Access to centralised real-time data allows users to see, analyse and respond to what is happening in every area of the business and informs strategic decision making.

As manufacturers seek assistance in becoming more agile and robust, there has never been a better time to explore the infinite possibilities of SYSPRO ERP. Only then can they identify their pain points and ensure the business is in the best possible shape to enter the next stage of growth.

Every visitor to our Subcon stand will have a unique opportunity to find out what ERP can do for their business. Be sure to pick up your superpowers ticket, whoever unleashes the golden ticket will take home a £50 Fortnum & Mason voucher. 

K3 Syspro are also offering free discovery sessions where our team will visit your workplace, learn more about what you do and demonstrate how we can optimise every business process. Successful ERP implementation is dependent on a trusted partnership and these sessions help us understand our customers’ business needs. We will deliver customised demonstrations that highlights how SYSPRO will address your current issues and show the expected business benefits. Our team will produce a proposal for appropriate software, implementation and any specific automation and integration services.

The super powers offered by our ERP toolkit give users access to all the information they need at the touch of a button. Data is king, and our solutions revolutionise how people work.

ERP- enabled businesses gain full visibility into every nook and cranny of their operation and that intelligence and foresight allows business to improve their customer offer. With SYSPRO, users can guarantee traceability of products, alterations and transactions, whilst improved integration facilitates knowledge sharing and joined up working.

Business leaders can identify where to drive efficiency and improve productivity. Streamlining operations improves everyone’s working lives and frees them up to work at greater speed.

This all feeds in to supporting profits and financial gain, offering the extra resources necessary to make further investment in people, plant and processes.

Be it our advanced forecasting tools, sophisticated financial planning modules, or assistance with international tax and trading regulations, K3 Syspro’s suite of solutions offers customers greater resilience and an invaluable competitive edge.

Visit K3 Syspro at Subcon on 4-6 June 2019 on stand D22 and learn more about how ERP can super-charge your operation and don’t forget to pick up a golden ticket!

Find out more about our discovery sessions here https://www.k3syspro.com/advice-centre/do-you-need-erp/free-discovery-session/

Register for Subcon for free at www.subconshow.co.uk/register

Interview with Brian Holliday - Managing Director Siemens Digital Industries

You’re presenting the keynote at this year’s Engineer Conference, please tell us a little more about this.

My intention is to offer some insight into the benefits of industrial digitalisation, to look beyond the hype to the company, employee and economic benefits of embracing digital technology and to explore some practical examples in Edge Computing, AI and Cloud Technology to name a few.

How do digitalisation, digital twinning, industry 4.0, etc, have the potential to improve the productivity and efficiency of UK manufacturing?

Industry 4.0 (the digitalisation of industry) represents the world’s next industrial productivity leap and again it’s derived from technological progress. This time, it’s all about data and the unprecedented networking of humans and machines. It will continue what we’ve started, with tools that augment both human physical and intellectual effort augmenting current levels of automation in industry.

Digital twins are already much more than geometry-based CAD models - they help us rapidly design, prototype and deploy both products and production plants in the virtual world helping to avoid much of the cost associated with traditional new product introduction or plant investment (without the downtime) – but also, digital twinning enables a faster time to market which in turn means competitiveness. Much of the value of the digital twin is yet to be widely realised – namely the digital twin of the performance of machines, plants and supply chains. This is where the IOT connectivity that we increasingly expect, enabled by MindSphere and Industrial Edge, connects a wealth of industrial data to increasingly advanced applications that help improve our insight to performance and enable us to act on it. This could mean a predictive failure intervention or use data to improve a product design or the enablement of a completely new business model.

Industry 4.0 is a global race – it’s about building unprecedented agility into what we do - it offers significant opportunities if we embrace it and the threat we’ll fall behind if we don’t.

Sum up the Made Smarter vision in one sentence?

Made Smarter is all about the UK embracing the fourth industrial revolution so we can dramatically improve our manufacturing productivity, growth and high value jobs footprint – all of which sets us up for a leading role in the future of manufacturing.

How far along the road are we to achieving this vision?

We’ve made a good start and there are pockets of excellence, although we must catch up given how little we automate in comparison with other industrialised nations today.
We’re becoming more joined up as industry, government and the innovation community and we’re starting to realise the benefits, at the same time as starting to help take the long tail of smaller manufacturers with us through the Made Smarter north west pilot. The North West was chosen because it represents much of our manufacturing and industrial activity and the institutional stakeholders there were willing participants when it came to collaboration and the support required to set up and scale such an innovative intervention.  

What are you most looking forward to at The Engineer Conference and Expo
this summer?

I am looking forward to spending time in detailed debate with my peers; with those in the industry who are trying to unpick and solve productivity problems through technology. This is a leading-edge discussion for engineering and one of our major challenges for the 2020s.

The Engineer Conference takes place 4-5 June at NEC, Birmingham, and is co-located with Advanced Manufacturing, The Engineer Expo and Subcon. Register now for a free visitor pass HERE.