Category: Food & Beverage

How Quick-Serve Restaurants Benefit from an Integrated, End-to-End System

As we move into a new year, it is a good idea to pause and consider how your quick-serve restaurant is performing and the steps you can take to increase your efficiency, sustainability, customer satisfaction, and, ultimately, your profitability. Many restaurants have experienced incremental improvements by updating various parts of their operations with new technologies.… Continue reading How Quick-Serve Restaurants Benefit from an Integrated, End-to-End System

Technology Trends for Quick-Serve and Coffee Shop Restaurants

Recent years have been challenging for quick-serve restaurants. Inflation, staffing shortages, fears of an economic recession, and lingering questions about a reliable supply chain have had the restaurant industry on edge. Despite all this, consumers are again eating out, and the industry shows signs of renewed growth. In an industry in flux, we thought it… Continue reading Technology Trends for Quick-Serve and Coffee Shop Restaurants

Key Performance Indicators that Help You Assess Company Health

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are metrics used by managers and financial professionals to assess the health of a company. Think of KPIs as the vital signs to check on the health of a company. When a person goes for a medical checkup, the doctor will take his or her vital signs and, based on those… Continue reading Key Performance Indicators that Help You Assess Company Health

Adopting a Unified Platform: Six Ways It Can Transform Your Restaurant Business

Your restaurant business relies on great service for its success. Unfortunately, keeping costs down does not always lend itself to delivering a fantastic atmosphere and keeping productivity up. Without technology that supports your goals, all your effort and hard work can end up being for nothing. Seeing the benefits offered by unified commerce software in the retail industry,… Continue reading Adopting a Unified Platform: Six Ways It Can Transform Your Restaurant Business

Service Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central – In and Out of the Box

WD-40 is a household staple. You can use it on everything that squeaks, to remove crayon from walls, keep garden tools and bike chains from rusting, remove bugs from your car, and even loosen screws. But do you think I remember that WD-40 does all that when I can’t turn a screw?  Nope, I don’t.  WD-40 is… Continue reading Service Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central – In and Out of the Box

Choosing a Partner for Migrating from Dynamics GP to Dynamics Business Central

Although Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) will be around for a while, it’s clear that Microsoft is putting emphasis on development of Dynamics 365 Business Central. If you’re a GP user, you’ve probably heard of many reasons why it’s time to move to another ERP, specifically Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, and the advantages of doing… Continue reading Choosing a Partner for Migrating from Dynamics GP to Dynamics Business Central

Effective Change Management is the Key to a Successful ERP Implementation

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Ask anyone who has experienced the failure of an ERP implementation the primary reason for the failure, and they’re very likely to point to poor change management. Only 54% of change initiatives succeed, which is pretty dismal, especially when you think about the impact, which not only includes not achieving results but also wasting resources… Continue reading Effective Change Management is the Key to a Successful ERP Implementation

The new normal requires the role of the CFO to change along with it

In the age of the coronavirus pandemic, we are hearing the term, “new normal” at every turn when it comes to how we operate personally and in business. It goes without saying that the pandemic has spurred the latest “new normal” – and a significant one at that. However, while these are certainly strange times,… Continue reading The new normal requires the role of the CFO to change along with it

Keeping an Eye at Each End of the Supply Chain and All Points Between

Knowing where your inventory is at any given moment is crucial to proactively identifying issues as well as opportunities early on. The great thing about manufacturing is that every step is linked, yet that can easily turn a small problem into a big one if you don’t have visibility into where that problem began. To… Continue reading Keeping an Eye at Each End of the Supply Chain and All Points Between