WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation
WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on AI-enabled business models, customer experience, digital transformation, supply chain, eCommerce, industry 4.0, and enterprise software categories such as CRM, ERP, or analytics suites. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily commercial, operational, or financial challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various enterprise software vendors and solutions, and their mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!
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WBSP402: Grow Your Business by Understanding Oracle PeopleSoft's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Which ERP is designed for people-centric industries in mind? It is the one that Oracle acquired. And got two major ERP brands in one go. In fact, this brand was so big that they ended up rebranding some of JD Edward's ERP assets to this one. Th...
WBSP401: Grow Your Business by Learning How To Start on a 3D Experience Journey w/ Beck Besecker
3D should always be better than the 2D experience, especially for the furniture and home goods industry. This industry also has one of the highest return rates even if there might not be anything fundamentally wrong with the product. Sometimes ...
WBSP400: Grow Your Business by Learning General Ledger Best Practices, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
How important is the general ledger to your organization? You might not care until you get a huge bill from your tax department for incorrectly coding an expense. Or you come to know that your financial position might not be as strong as you th...
WBSP399: Grow Your Business by Understanding OroCommerce’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Do you know an eCommerce platform that is open source and built on PHP? Do you know an eCommerce platform that is very strong with B2B features with complex approval flows? Do you know an eCommerce platform that can bump up the products in the ...
WBSP398: Grow Your Business by Understanding Sage 200's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Do you know a Sage product that has multiple location functionality but is not designed for multiple countries? Do you know a Sage product that has multiple versions of its products for different countries? Do you know a Sage product that is ta...
WBSP397: Grow Your Business by Learning How Shadow ERP Processes Leads to Implementation Failure w/ Peter Joeckel
ERP implementation is easy. Anyone can do it. But, ironically, anyone can fail it as well. So how can ERP implementation be so easy and difficult at the same time? There are several reasons. But the core reason is how ERP systems are selected a...
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WBSP396: Grow Your Business by Learning Account Payable Best Practices, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
How hard could it be to manage the vendor side of processes? Well, sometimes, it could be more complex than your customer side of processes, especially for B2C businesses. Also, it might vary based on your industry, product type, and supply cha...
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WBSP395: Grow Your Business by Understanding Elastic Path’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
The B2B companies have needs for eCommerce functionality such as catalog management, saving of carts, and complex product variants. But do catalog management needs vary even among B2B companies? While there are solutions that can promise catalo...
WBSP394: Grow Your Business by Understanding Tally's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
The number of installations for an ERP is a metric that is often used as a purchase criterion. But it can often be misleading. Misinterpreted. Misunderstood. Also, the product sold to small-to-medium-sized businesses is likely to have a h...
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WBSP393: Grow Your Business by Learning Automated Testing for ERP Systems w/ Thomas Clyma
70% of the ERP implementation time is spent on testing the functionality. In fact, some people might argue that most of them manual data entry with ERP can be automated. But it’s easier said than done. Because of the rigidness of the ERP data, ...
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WBSP392: Grow Your Business by Learning Account Receivable Best Practices, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Account receivable functions should be as easy as sending a bunch of invoices, making a few phone calls, and collecting cash. It must be the easiest job in the world, right? Well, once you get into the nuances of billing, you will quickly reali...
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WBSP391: Grow Your Business by Understanding Shopify’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Shopify is the name that is now synonymous with eCommerce. Shopify is so easy that you can get up and running within hours and start selling. You also probably don't need the coding background to start selling on Shopify. Then you have thousand...
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WBSP390: Grow Your Business by Understanding ECi Macola's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Most people underestimate the role of products or services in defining your processes' structure. This is also probably the reason why most industries would have comparable operations. And as a result, they would be using a similar ERP system. ...
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WBSP389: Grow Your Business by Learning the Lean Procurement Prioritization Workflow w/ Richard Lebovitz
COVID has taught us that Supply Chain issues can shake the whole economy. And everyone is attacking Supply Chain issues from their perspective. And sometimes it’s very hard to understand how these solutions will collectively solve the overarchi...
WBSP388: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Nesting Business Process, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
If you cut any materials on your shop floor, you might have nesting software to reduce waste. But the admin efforts increased by a standalone nesting software might eliminate the benefits of reducing waste. Also, if you have multiple software o...
WBSP387: Grow Your Business by Understanding BigCommerce’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
BigCommerce is the name you will hear in the B2B space. But does BigCommerce have the same options as some of the other sophisticated platforms such as Magento, with a security layer to enable procurement flows, quoting functionality, and catal...
WBSP386: Grow Your Business by Understanding Infor Visual's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When an ERP system uses a specific buzzword or something that customers might relate to, it's typically the marketing hype. And not really the strength of the product. For example, several cloud products might include a "cloud" word, even if th...
WBSP385: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of the OEM Distribution Model w/ David Taylor
There are many different business models for how each ERP vendor promotes its products. Some like to go direct to the customers with their own professional services team while the others only sell through their partners. While not common, some ...
WBSP384: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Product Configurator, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
eCommerce consultants have been the most enthusiastic about the importance of product configurators. How this is a need for every custom manufacturer. But product configurator comes in many shapes and sizes. A product configurator could be a si...
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WBSP383: Grow Your Business by Understanding Adobe Commerce/Magento’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
If you were to name the top 2-3 eCommerce platforms, I am pretty sure you would have Magento on your list. Sure there are always going to be pros and cons of every single platform, but you might find a lot more pros with Magento than cons. The ...
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WBSP382: Grow Your Business by Understanding Sage 50's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Sage 50 is the household name for companies that might be in the revenue range of up to $10 million. In fact, there was a time when Sage 50 literally meant that the software was designed for companies with up to 50 users. But some companies may...
WBSP381: Grow Your Business by Learning How AI Can Be Used To Improve Customer Engagement w/ Erica Salm Rench
Creating good content takes time, effort, and investment. But targeting the right content for the right target buyer and prospect is even harder. Because how do you know which prospect might care for which piece of content? Also, even if they m...
WBSP380: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Outside Process Management, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Outside process management is a critical process for manufacturers. It's hard for them to run their operations without the support for this process. But you will be shocked how many ERP systems don't support this process natively. Despite their...
WBSP379: Grow Your Business by Understanding HCL Commerce’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Consulting companies have never been good at selling products. IBM is a classic example. They have always struggled with their true identity. While they were one of the strongest engineering organizations, just like BlackBerry, product marketin...
WBSP378: Grow Your Business by Understanding ECi M1's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
ERP systems get a bad rap for being biased toward manufacturing. So manufacturers must feel comfortable using the mainstream ERP systems out there. Right? Well, at least that's not true for job shops. Job shops are unique in the way they think ...
