Posts Tagged ‘manufacturing’

Perficient’s supply chain team works daily with large companies to define P2P processes related to development and maintenance of large asset intensive infrastructures (e.g. Communications, O&G, Energy). Speed to production and continuous operation are critical in these industries and the value of the Procurement Organization is often overlooked. Procurement doesn’t have to be the necessary […]

The strategic vision of the manufacturing and automotive treasury function is to deliver efficiency, control, and scalability. The logical structure for this transformation includes several key components: business events, centralized demand deposit accounts with banking connectivity, and a reporting data warehouse. A comprehensive finance and treasury transformation program can help improve cash and liquidity management, […]

Technological disruption has and will continue to put pressure on traditional retailers and those businesses directly servicing consumers to meet and exceed relentless expectations. This digital disruption is also noticeably impacting the traditional B2B customer experience (CX). Businesses which have historically sold to other businesses are increasingly transforming to optimize support for self-service. In many cases, […]

Think back to the early days of the Internet. You can still hear the dial-up sound as the modem connected you to the World Wide Web. Painfully slow – and yet amazing at the same time – it was hard to imagine how this technology would change our lives. Similar to a rock thrown into […]

Recent events indicate a digital disruption is afoot – and ecommerce cannot ignore it. Commerce business models must change to satisfy increasing customer expectations across the B2C and B2B spectrum. In this series, explore the three major areas where you can start innovating to transform your existing commerce business model. We previously looked at re-vamping […]

If you’re in the life sciences industry and are considering IBM Maximo for regulated uses, we’ve got good news: it’s capable of 21 CFR Part 11 compliance! And, if you’re not familiar with 21 CFR Part 11, Perficient has the ultimate guide to help you. Here are the three key areas of the regulation that govern […]

Whether or not we agree with President Trump’s executive orders and policies, on a daily basis, we are getting incredible insight into how he wants to change a number of industries. On Monday, President Trump spoke on reducing regulation and “doing a number” on specific financial rules. Yesterday, he met with executives from the life […]

We’re only a couple days into the new year and are already making smart moves to further position our company as a leader in numerous industries, including aerospace and defense, cable and telecommunications, energy and mining, financial services, high tech, manufacturing, and travel and hospitality. Today, Perficient announced the acquisition of RAS & Associates, a […]

Earlier this year, I returned to the world of e-commerce web sites after a long, long layoff (think the painful, patience-trying time gap between two seasons of “Games of Thrones”, then multiply it exponentially).  It quickly became apparent that the basic business requirements driving e-commerce, and the key integration points behind it, haven’t really changed […]

Join us at the 2016 IndustryWeek Manufacturing & Technology Conference & Expo as Abbvie, Perficient and IBM discuss “The Impact of Analytics on Asset Reliability and Process Quality”. Asset-intensive industries have been connecting assets to dashboards for decades. The “Internet of Things” (IOT) has significantly changed the way these connections are made. Lower costs of […]

Nine years ago when I started in the salesforce.com ecosystem the majority of companies using Salesforce were early adopters from the high-tech ranks. Since then, we’ve seen customers across multiple industries trust Salesforce to solve their business challenges. One of these industries is traditional manufacturing, which I see increasingly using Salesforce to help run and modernize their business. For […]

From Technology Review comes an article about a new kind of robot who could transform manufacturing.  It’s one of those infrequent but eye opening views into what the future really holds.  This robot has sophisticated sensors, uses expressions, and can programmed by factory workers without a degree in computer science.  In short, this is just […]