Recent remarks by a Microsoft executive about cloud ERP don't ring true. A little digging brings clarity around his claims.

Discover more about ERP solutions for the aerospace supply chain.

Don Clarke joins Plex as CFO. Formerly, at Eloqua, Clarke oversaw the company’s growth to more than $96M in annual revenue, its successful IPO and Eloqua’s sale to Oracle in December 2012.

Deal Architect welcomes Plex Systems, the leader in cloud-based ERP software for manufacturers, as a new sponsor.

Many SaaS solutions are priced using an old model originally devised by the on-premise world, where modules are priced on a per item and per seat basis. Large organizations will expect to negotiate the final total and discounting is common. Plex Systems on the other hand prices using a percentage of customer revenue.

Quality performance has gone from a market differentiator to an absolute requirement to attract and keep business. A company simply cannot get by, let alone thrive, without a rigorous quality improvement process.

Deal Architect's Vinnie Mirchandani discusses how Plex Systems, the leader in cloud-based ERP software for manufacturers, thrives over competitors.

Louis Columbus is featured as one of the top 100 to follow on Twitter.

Vinnie Mirchandani, Deal Architect, joins a Plex sponsored afternoon with several of its customers and its own manufacturing savants. Plex, from the heartland of the US manufacturing industry in Michigan, is one of the few cloud ERP vendors with a focus on manufacturing.

From HACCP forms generation to automated track-and-trace systems, affordable software tools make FSMA compliance easier for small and medium-sized processors, and can reduce the potential of recalls.