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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WBSP377: Grow Your Business by Learning the Impact of Macroeconomic Trends on Supply Chain w/ Michael Van Keulen
Recent economic events have taught us that Supply Chain is much deeper than most people think. These events, regardless of whether macro- or micro-economic, have the potential to throw off Supply Chain planning. And it requires careful calibrat...
WBSP376: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Reverse Logistics, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Most companies would rather give a product for free than worry about reverse logistics. Especially when the cost of the supply chain may be higher than the product itself. By the way, reverse logistics is not as simple as printing a shipping la...
WBSP375: Grow Your Business by Understanding Episerver Digital Commerce/Optimizely’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
The debate about whether a platform should be more business vs. developer-friendly is classic. Even the platforms that might claim to be friendly for business users might struggle with aesthetically pleasing interfaces. But Episerver takes a ve...
WBSP374: Grow Your Business by Understanding Infor CloudSuite Distribution/SX.e's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Most people might think of the distribution business as buy-and-sell. But distribution really gets really complex in the industrial space. You have challenges such as price and rebate management, buying groups, rush orders, and millions of SKUs...
WBSP373: Grow Your Business by Learning the Implications of Big Bang ERP Rollouts w/ Nate and Jessica Schisler
Whether to go for iterative deployment or the big bang is always subject to debate. But one factor that is often missed is the number of issues you might get on the day of deployment. As well as, the number of resources that you may require to ...
WBSP372: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of RMA, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
What comes to mind when you think of RMA? Well, for me, I always feel that I have a fundamental right to return any product as I so please. However, if you think about the people and businesses that have to enable processes such as store credit...
WBSP371: Grow Your Business by Understanding SAP Commerce Cloud’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When people think of SAP Hybris, they are definitely not thinking of the modern stack such as React, headless, or PWA. But SAP Commerce has come a long way in its capabilities and stack. While it might not be as headless as some of the newer br...
WBSP370: Grow Your Business by Understanding Sage 300's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Sage 300, also known as Accpac, is the household name for many companies when they think of an ERP system. It has always been a powerful accounting package, especially for SMBs. It has also been very strong with construction, real estate, and f...
WBSP369: Grow Your Business by Avoiding Odoo ERP Implementation Disasters w/ Nick Foy
It’s very hard to pinpoint the real cause of ERP implementation failures due to the number of moving pieces involved. Some people would always blame the software vendors while others would blame the system integrators. In reality, these factors...
WBSP368: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Committed Inventory and Allocation, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Committed inventory and allocation are perhaps the most complex processes to master in the ERP world. But they are critical after a certain point in your growth. If you don't have committed inventory processes figured out, you might not be able...
WBSP367: Grow Your Business by Understanding Oracle Commerce’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
The whole idea of eCommerce and the web have always been making IT and programming easy for marketers. So easy that they don't need to learn coding to run eCommerce operations. But the world of headless seems to be taking the opposite approach....
WBSP366: Grow Your Business by Understanding Microsoft SL's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Before Microsoft started migrating all of their customers to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and F&O, they had a similar strategy as Epicor or Infor, with several products in their portfolio targeted to specific industry verticals. In f...
WBSP365: Grow Your Business by Learning Taxation and Localization Nuances of Mexico w/ Agustín Cruz Lozano
Most people underestimate the differences in taxes and localization and their implications on the ERP processes. Some countries may have requirements such as reporting on pollution or privacy standards. But countries such as Mexico have complet...
WBSP364: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Shop Floor Scheduling, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Shop floor scheduling is always the hottest debate in the ERP community. In fact, it is so complex that most SMB companies end up managing their scheduling on spreadsheets. Also, the problems are much worse when multiple systems might be involv...
WBSP363: Grow Your Business by Understanding Salesforce Commerce’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When it comes to enterprise platforms, it's hard to meet the expectations from all fronts: performance, customization, developer experience, and functionality. Most platforms can perhaps check a couple of these boxes. Salesforce Commerce Cloud ...
WBSP362: Grow Your Business by Understanding Epicor Eclipse's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Epicor Eclipse has a more loyal community than crypto and Metaverse. But why is that? Based on the amount of technological innovation happening, you would guess that any school grad might be able to write ERP software. Right? So then why do tec...
WBSP361: Grow Your Business by Learning Workflow Automation Technologies w/ Ravi Vaidya
Automating a process is easy. But understanding which process is the right candidate for automation is more difficult than most people think. Also, not every process is the right candidate to be hosted inside an ERP. By the same token, not ever...
WBSP360: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Co-products/By-products, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
The bill of materials becomes complex when you might have multiple layers of costing and sub-assemblies. But you need to be at a different level when you might have co-products and by-products involved as part of your manufacturing process. The...
WBSP359: Grow Your Business by Understanding VTEX’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Most people might not even pay attention to the location in the digital world. We can hire workers from any country remotely. We can trade with most countries easily. But when it comes to eCommerce and ERP systems, location is still a huge fact...
WBSP358: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of ERP Bank Integrations w/ Matt Bernot
Most businesses take a reactive approach to their banking needs. They are likely to default to the bank that has the lowest fee. Also, they might have several exposure points for attackers to get access to your accounts. But does the lowest fee...
WBSP357: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Bill of Materials, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Just like ERP, the Bill of Materials is perhaps the overused and oversold term. A BOM could be the assembly of two materials like wrapping a gift for your birthday. Or it could be the manufacturing process of the whole spaceship. But what if th...
WBSP356: Grow Your Business by Understanding Spryker’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
eCommerce is easy when you are managing a couple of stores and selling in 6-figures. But it becomes increasingly difficult when you have to manage millions and billions of transactions. While also managing the transactional depth of a complex b...
WBSP355: Grow Your Business by Understanding Infor M3's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Infor M3 is a unique product that can meet specific requirements of certain industries. But do these specific requirements really matter? Can't you just customize a vanilla ERP system such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or SAP S/4 H...
WBSP354: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of Enterprise Risk Management and Governance w/ Hart Brown
Most companies feel that the insurance companies would be able to cover most financial risks for them. But without understanding your risk profile, it’s hard to predict if they will be covered. Understanding and identification of risks require ...
WBSP353: Grow Your Business by Learning the Best Practices of Consolidated Invoicing, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Consolidated invoicing and billing are typically the outliers and don't get as much attention until they become painful issues in the organization. So what are the different variables that drive the consolidated processes? How many different ty...
