• Are you manually entering information from one system to another?
• Do you experience frequent errors because you have to re-key information - again and again?
• Do you find it difficult to recognise errors and then spend too much time fixing them?
• Do you have instant or easy access to information you need to make business decisions?

Do you know the real cost of inventory?

• Can you accurately assess the costs for material purchasing and ordering?
• Do you know how much it really costs to run your business?
• Can your current system give reporting details for costs associated with quality assurance, storage and lost opportunities?
• Are you able to find and eliminate "hidden" costs within your manufacturing processes?

Is your current system flexible?

• Are you able to "backflush" inventory items?
• Does your system analyse costs only at the end of projects?
• Are you able to compare estimated versus actual costs for labour, materials and machine time?
• Are you able to customise your system to fit your unique production process?
• Can you determine how much material is used at each step on the production line?
• Can you measure the efficiency of your machines?

What is the true cost of the inability to easily share information across your entire enterprise?

• Do your managers wait hours (or even days) for information they need for critical business decisions?
• Can your suppliers and customers easily access status reports and other vital information?
• Can your employees call up a customer or supplier's complete history in just a few keystrokes, or is customer and supplier data spread over a number of applications that can't "talk" to each other?

Do you really know how much it costs to do business with your current system?

• Do you have high training costs because your applications are difficult to learn and use?
• How much does it cost to share information with remote suppliers and employees?
• How does the inability to make timely decisions affect profitability?