1. You Can’t Track Project Costs in Real-Time
   If you're waiting until after a project wraps up to find out whether it was profitable, that’s a major red flag. Without real-time cost tracking, you're making critical decisions in the dark.

2. Quoting and Estimating Are Slow, Manual, or Inconsistent
   Does it take hours—or even days—to build a custom quote because you're pulling information from multiple systems? That lost time translates directly into lost sales opportunities.

3. You Rely on Spreadsheets for Critical Operations
   Spreadsheets are useful—until they’re not. Issues like version control problems, accidental overwrites, and human error can lead to costly mistakes.

4. Scheduling and Inventory Management Are Disconnected from Financials
   If your production and finance teams aren’t working from the same data, it’s only a matter of time before you face delays, stockouts, or budget overruns.

5. You Don’t Have a Real-Time View of Project Profitability
   Without live costing tied directly to jobs, small losses can accumulate unnoticed, until it's too late.

Disconnected data refers to information stored outside your core business systems, like your ERP. While this data has value, a lack of integration causes inefficiencies and misalignment across your organization, often more than you realize.

The Cost of Disconnected Data...

The Future is Here: Are You Ready to Embrace AI?

According to Deloitte's State of AI in the Enterprise Report:

• 94% of business leaders believe AI is critical to their success strategy in the next 5 years.
• 79% of organizations expect Generative AI to transform their operations within 3 years.
• 56% are already leveraging Generative AI to boost efficiency and productivity.

AI isn’t just the future—it’s happening now. Where is your organization on its AI journey? Whether you're just starting or looking to expand, we’re here to help you take the next step, together.

We’re excited to introduce our latest professional service, Implementing Generative AI Using ChatGPT. This new service is designed to help organizations effectively leverage the power of generative AI in their operations

Key Benefits of Implementing Generative AI Using ChatGPT by Department

Are you manually entering shipping data between your Baan or Infor LN system and UPS/FedEx? If so, you’re likely facing challenges with efficiency, accuracy, and wasted time on redundant tasks. We understand these pain points and want to introduce a solution to transform your workflow: RMCship.

According to a recent report by The Manufacturer and IBM, 92% of manufacturers are prioritizing efficiency. However, the manual entry of shipment details—like transportation mode, weight, and tracking numbers—into logistics systems, only to re-enter data back into Baan and Infor LN, is a major bottleneck. This process not only consumes valuable time but also increases the risk of costly errors and delays in shipping and invoicing.

Here’s how RMCship can help:

The Impact of Disconnected Data Across Your Organization

Operations Impact:

• The warehouse manager’s spreadsheet tracking inventory levels and supplier shipments is disconnected from your ERP.
• Dealer Portal Email orders need to be manually entered into the system.

Finance Impact:

• Budgeting data is maintained in isolated spreadsheets, unlinked to quotes or sales figures in your ERP.
• Open purchase orders and invoices need manual matching and approval, creating inefficiencies.

Technology Impact:

• A large number of reports must be generated outside the ERP for teams to stay "up to date."
• Valuable time is spent exporting ERP data for analysis in external data cubes.

Executive Impact:

• Compiling an accurate picture of inventory and financial health is a struggle when data comes from multiple sources.
• Lack of visibility to inventory shortages results in losing customers due to stockouts or delays.

Disconnected data refers to information stored separately from your main business system, such as your ERP. While this data holds value, the lack of integration creates challenges across your entire organization—often more than expected...

​Every manufacturer relies on a few core metrics to manage operations: efficiency, productivity, capacity, and labor and equipment utilization. These benchmarks are used worldwide to assess performance and process effectiveness.

What if you could integrate quality control into every operation at every work center to ensure high-quality finished goods and simultaneously train high-quality operators? Manufacturing quality can be achieved using documented, repeatable, and measurable processes.

Introducing Crossroads RMC's ERP-independent solution, VJES (Visual Job Execution Software). VJES is an electronic work instruction interface that bridges engineering and the paperless manufacturing floor. VJES ensures that only one version of the work instructions is available—the correct one. By deploying up-to-date, visually rich work instructions, images, and videos, VJES provides personnel the best opportunity to build it right the first time and tracks worker productivity throughout the build process.

VJES achieves RESULTS:

• Turn new hire welders into specialized welders in 2 weeks
• Improve quality scores from 68/100 to 93/100 in 12 months
• Reduce employee training time from 1 week to 3 days within the first month of use
• Maintain a first-pass yield percentage of 100% for 8 consecutive months this year
• Incorporate a quality cell after productivity increases due to the bandwidth gained from adopting VJES
   

Contact us to learn more, or Request a Demo today!

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Business Insights Made Easy With Dashboards

Learn how easy it is to create and use dashboards to gain valuable insights into the data you use daily to run your business.

Join our webinar: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 12:00pm Noon (US/Central) for 1 hour.

Presenter: Anthony Etzel

At Crossroads RMC, we understand that our clients are fiercely loyal to Infor LX/BPCS because of its breadth of capabilities, reliability, and efficiency. Simply put, it stands as an indispensable tool for your business operations.

Thanks to our new partnership with Aleran Software, we’ve made it easy and affordable to extend your LX/BPCS investment with a suite of modern, cloud-based sales tools, including:

• Customer/Dealer Portal Capabilities: Empower your customers and dealers with intuitive portal access.
• Streamlined CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote): Simplify complex configurations and pricing processes.
• Efficient Sales Order Management: Centralize all cart activities, quoting, and sales orders for seamless operations.
• Sales-Focused PIM (Product Information Management): Store vital sales-driving information for enhanced decision-making.
• Flexible Buying Sites: Offer unlimited buying sites tailored to customer or dealer preferences, complete with customizable price points.
• Integrated Catalog and Tech Manual Buying: Facilitate integrated buying directly from existing catalogs and technical manuals.
   

With a modern, cloud-based deployment, Crossroads RMC can help you remove the risk and eliminate the headaches that come from traditional cost-prohibitive builds and months-long integrations. We can help you put your customers at the center of a multi-channel sales strategy with curated sales experiences, personalized promotions, and out-of-the-box fully configurable tools and features.  

Contact us today at 800.762.2077 to jumpstart your path to enhanced connectivity and sales efficiency.