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To celebrate Labor Day (or Labour Day as we write it in Canada), we wanted to offer you some handy tips for hiring the best manufacturing talent and keeping them on your team longer.

Industry-specific ERPs are built to meet the needs of your industry and will come loaded with the features that your business needs.

CAD2BOM gives you a running start on production by quickly and accurately creating a complex BOM that includes a comprehensive list of all required parts and items plus routings and production steps, ready for procurement and production.

Your shop floor is central to your business, so why do so many manufacturers still rely on paper to manage it?

Industry 4.0 is the combination of innovations in digital technologies that are changing the face of the manufacturing industry.

In today’s marketplace, many different types of ERP systems are available. While this increases consumer choice, it can make it difficult to understand and know which kind of system is best for your business. 

The good news: the manufacturing industry, with the exception of a few sectors, is booming, and the growth experienced in the industry over the last year is forecasted to continue throughout 2022 and into 2023.

After moving into their new facility and a strong focus on growing their business, Marathon needed to improve their processes.

L’école des Métiers en Aéronautique de Montréal (ÉMAM) has chosen Genius ERP's Academic Program to help train the next generation of specialized workers on the tools they will use in a working manufacturing environment.

ERP and CRM software are valuable tools that every manufacturer needs. While both will increase the overall profitability of your business, CRM software helps you manage your customers, whereas ERP software helps you streamline all of your business processes.

An ERP will give production managers all the tools they need to plan, execute, and complete complex manufacturing jobs.

With hundreds, if not thousands, of different types of ERP systems on the market, it’s hard to know which system is right for your business. Different tiers, target markets, and feature sets can make the selection process overwhelming—and make it difficult to know where to start.

An ERP makes purchasing easier for manufacturers by automating everyday purchasing tasks and providing accurate real-time data to ensure that you always have the right amount of stock on hand.

An ERP helps CEOs and senior executives make better strategic business decisions by supplying them with comprehensive, timely, and reliable internal data.

Engineers need an ERP system that has their unique needs in mind, including creating and managing Bills of Materials (BOMs), routing steps, and work instructions. Engineers also need an ERP that allows for the seamless integration of a CAD system with the ERP. 

Accountants will benefit from an ERP by using integrated data to streamline all of their accounting processes.

ERPs are indispensable to manufacturing companies. They are the industry gold standard for a reason — nothing streamlines business processes, provides accurate real-time data, and reduces costs better than an ERP system.on.

We all want to be the best at what we do, right? But as a manufacturer, what do you actually need to do to become the best?