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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WBSP352: Grow Your Business by Understanding commercetools’ Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
commercetools is the hottest darling of the eCommerce space. This is especially true for the people who are big on microservices architecture and are part of the MACH alliance. But headless architecture is a lot of work for brands and requires ...
WBSP351: Grow Your Business by Understanding Pronto ERP's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Pronto is not a household name among the ERP options available in the market unless you are from Australia or New Zeeland. Also, Australia is a different beast when it comes to meeting the statutory requirements of that country. Australia's eco...
WBSP350: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of Lease Accounting w/ Greg Kautz
Lease accounting has a lot of moving pieces. And they are always changing due to the ever-evolving regulations around lease accounting. If you don’t keep up with your lease valuations and amortization schedules, you might be exposing yourself t...
WBSP349: Grow Your Business by Understanding 3DCart’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Choosing an eCommerce platform is hard. You have plenty of options to choose from in the market. But they all have specific capabilities and are designed for a specific purpose. Some of the nuanced options, such as gift wrap or style, could be ...
WBSP348: Grow Your Business by Understanding Epicor Prophet 21's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Epicor Prophet 21 has always been extremely popular among industrial distributors. But is Epicor P21 fit for all businesses? Can it work for manufacturing as well as distribution? How about businesses that might manufacture as well as distribut...
WBSP347: Grow Your Business by Learning the eCommerce Nuances for Furniture Manufacturers w/ Robert Giovannini
The furniture industry is extremely unique as while its distribution processes might be similar to other distribution industries, each product is custom-made. And this makes implementing eCommerce for furniture manufacturers extremely challengi...
WBSP346: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of Partial Order Processing and Early Shipping Business Processes, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
The rising consumer expectations and growing trend of marketplaces are driving the order processing complexity for businesses. Sales order processing is increasingly complex. You have challenges such as partial delivery. In some industries, the...
WBSP345: Grow Your Business by Understanding A2X’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
A2X is not the name you might recognize unless you are in the Xero or Shopify ecosystem. But they have created a new category of software, which seems exciting for eCommerce merchants, especially due to the amount of additional overhead you add...
WBSP344: Grow Your Business by Understanding Infor LN's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
Infor LN has been the household name for many Automotive and Aerospace companies. If they can't relate with Infor LN, they will definitely recognize BaaN. At one point, when BaaN won Boeing as their account, there was a prediction that BaaN may...
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WBSP340: Grow Your Business by Understanding SAP Business One's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
While you might feel that SAP does not care for the SMB market, SAP Business One is one of the most successful products. SAP Business One incorporates all the great features such as financial control and relationship map, along with the speed o...
WBSP343: Grow Your Business by Learning the Importance of Centralizing ERP Shared Services w/ Brian G Shannon
The large companies that are present in more than 10 countries and have more than 50K employees need operational efficiencies at a different scale. The efficiencies at the plant or at the entity level are no longer enough. You need to figure ou...
WBSP342: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of Kitting Business Processes, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
If you're an e-commerce brand, kitting would not be new to you. Kitting could be a great tool to increase the average order value and differentiate yourself from the competition without necessarily launching a new product line. But kitting requ...
WBSP341: Grow Your Business by Understanding ShipBob’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
If you are an eCommerce brand and starting on the eCommerce journey, 3PL may appear to be an attractive option. You might feel that the only thing matters for eCommerce is sales and marketing. But as you advance in your journey, you will quickl...
WBSP339: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of B2B Digital Commerce Processes w/ Jay Schneider
Digital commerce initiatives require your product, channel, and customer data in order. Or they might not pay off as you might never get the desired results from them as you expect. While both B2B and B2C eCommerce efforts have their share of c...
WBSP338: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of Blanket Orders Business Processes, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
When it comes to blanket orders, the business community has mixed feelings about whether they add real value to the business. But their implementation could be all over the place as well. The legacy systems that didn't support the blanket order...
WBSP337: Grow Your Business by Understanding ShipHype’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When you look at the eCommerce fulfillment space, there are many options out there. And most of these options could appear very similar. In fact, sometimes it's very hard to spot the difference between a 3PL and an eCommerce fulfillment softwar...
WBSP336: Grow Your Business by Understanding Epicor Kinetic's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When it comes to ERP software designed for manufacturing, you will find dozen of options. But none of them come close to meeting the needs of complex manufacturers. Even the software that will claim to be designed for hybrid manufacturing and r...
WBSP335: Grow Your Business by Learning the Digital Process Complexity of the Water Industry w/ Noemi Kis
One T-shirt takes around 700 gallons of water to manufacture. This is how important the water industry is that not many people understand. The water industry also has a complex sales cycle with several handshakes in the process. And yet it has ...
WBSP334: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of Dropshipping Business Processes, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Most eCommerce companies can't survive without dropshipping. They might not have the funds to carry the inventory or build fulfillment centers to support customers in every location. But dropshipping is not as easy as building the website, find...
WBSP333: Grow Your Business by Understanding Ordoro's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
When it comes to the options available for eCommerce merchants in the QuickBooks ecosystem, there is no shortage. In fact, we have so many options that sometimes it might be a project in itself to find the right tools and use them for the purpo...
WBSP332: Grow Your Business by Understanding Infor CloudSuite Industrial's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
There have been several attempts to segment manufacturing processes such as make-to-order, make-to-stock, engineer-to-order, and project-based manufacturing. Some segment it based on discreet vs. process manufacturing. But the reality is that t...
WBSP331: Grow Your Business by Learning the System and Process Complexity of the Packaging Industry w/ Megan Gamble
While the products get the most attention in a manufacturing company, the packaging is equally important when it comes to the CPG world. Also, the systems and operational needs are completely different when we compare different players in the p...
WBSP330: Grow Your Business by Learning the Pros and Cons of Centralized vs. Decentralized Order Processing, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Not many businesses understand how to capitalize on the synergies of truly globally integrated organizations. They struggle to bring all the departments together from one plant. Bringing together all the entities and sites in one system is a mu...
WBSP329: Grow Your Business by Understanding Flowtrac's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
There are many different apps out there in the eCommerce space. Some go by eCommerce operations platform. Some call them multi-channel management platforms. Some can do warehouse management and proof of delivery. Some even claim that how they a...
WBSP328: Grow Your Business by Understanding Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's Capabilities, an Objective Panel Discussion
There is a very thin line between mainstream and project-based manufacturing. Is software development manufacturing? How about constructing a house? The manufacturing systems that are designed for mainstream manufacturing, such as make-to-stock...
