The Director is looking at the Cloud in a financial way that "appears" to

be positive to our bottom line. That is not only in fees but in TIME that

her staff is attempting to identify what if anything is wrong for users.

We are a small shop of IT for 22 plants who use a great deal of automation

in the MFG process generating finished goods, food containers, that are

sold to the edible oil industry. You cannot call us up and just order

something. We have no inventory of FG to speak of. All product is blown

this or last week and will be delivered this or next week. Our customers

are only placed on 1-2-5 year contracts to supply them with containers. We

know what they want before they ask for it via a PO because of our

long-time relationship with them in 10-20+ years of service.

The IT department has created a lot of products that are external to the

ERP that fulfills users demands for information or manipulation. A DW is

one thing, Specifications on all our items is another. Leveraging sales

data into CRM is a third and within CRM we have 4 products that deal with

injuries or defects or complaints.

We have a version of software issue and have had that for 10+ years. the

ERP itself is rarely updated, every 4-5 years. Between those updates, we

add in other products by the same vendor to work with our "system of

record". The version of the add on expects a newer version of ERP is the

rock we bang our heads against all the time. That being said if the vendor

could update the stack on their side monthly or as needed we do not have to

get into doing that ever again. That is a savings of thousands of man

hours across the team over 3-6 months.

This is the low hanging fruit the Director is attempting to harvest for us

and our company.

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Man-wai Chang <changmw@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it your ERP vendor? Or is it your boss? If it's the latter case,

> you could not say no. :)

>

> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Stephen Russell <srussell705@gmail.com>

> wrote:

> > Our ERP vendor wants us to jump into the cloud in a multi-tenant data

> > environment.

> >

> > Sucks for us having written many applications that read that data and

> > present it to users to get things done that the ERP doesn't do today.

>

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