New Release Details on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
A team of PSSI staff just attended the annual Microsoft Dynamics NAV “Directions” conference this past week in Orlando. We were able to get an up-close view of [...]
The Future of Manufacturing
An article in the September issue of Bloomberg Businessweek provides a glimpse into what’s really happening that will affect manufacturing’s future, with two competing consortiums now attempting to [...]
The Upside to Robotics for Skilled Workers
In a recent article (APICS Magazine, Sep/Oct ’15) entitled “Job Ready” by Ingrid Ostby, the author asserts that the real value in the continuing emergence of robots in [...]
The Stuff You Probably Don’t Know
The Economist recently released its 2016 edition of “Pocket World in Figures” (What…? You haven’t gotten yours yet?) and though it’s mostly dry as an almanac in a [...]
Learning From Past ERP Failures
Consultants at Panorama Solutions, an ERP provider, remind us that past failures do not have to doom future ERP projects in a post found here. They give four tips [...]
Basics of RFID
In an APICS Magazine article entitled “RFID at Work” three PhD’s who serve day jobs as computer professors and consultants detail many of the requirements for implementing Radio [...]
Another Tech Bubble?
There’s plenty of reason to think that Silicon Valley is building to yet another bubble or, as they say, partying like it’s 1999. Companies these days are raising [...]
Drucker, Toyota and… Mass Customization?
In his 1993 book The Post Capitalist Society longtime management guru Peter Drucker of Claremont Graduate University (and for this writer’s money, the greatest and most innovative management [...]
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Due for Release This Month
Microsoft is releasing the latest version of its best-selling Dynamics NAV ERP software – now deployed at 120,000 companies worldwide – this month, coinciding with the “Directions EMEA” [...]