10 Must Do’s for Small- to Medium-Sized Manufacturers

What sets today’s best small and mid-sized manufacturers apart?

Many shops still rely on manual processes, disconnected systems, and outdated workflows that slow production and increase costs. This whitepaper outlines the 10 must-do practices top manufacturers use to boost efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

  • Reduce labor waste with real-time tools
  • Shorten cycle times through automation and better scheduling
  • Improve inventory and purchasing accuracy
  • Strengthen quoting and job costing
  • Run your shop in one unified ERP instead of siloed systems

These best practices help manufacturers eliminate inefficiencies, increase visibility, and run a more predictable operation.

Download the whitepaper to explore all 10 must-dos for manufacturing success.

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Manufacturing Chaos to Control: 8 Fixes That Pay Off

Are hidden inefficiencies slowing down your manufacturing operation?

Many manufacturers still rely on outdated, manual processes that drain profit and create constant firefighting. This whitepaper breaks down the eight issues that quietly disrupt production—and how a modern ERP helps you fix them fast.

Inside, you’ll learn how to address:

  • Disconnected systems that cause data silos and errors
  • Scheduling delays that lead to missed deadlines
  • Inventory and quality gaps that increase waste and rework
  • Labor and costing inefficiencies that hurt margins
  • Shop-floor bottlenecks that impact throughput

Get practical fixes that help you eliminate bottlenecks, improve accuracy, and run a smoother, more profitable operation.

Download the whitepaper to discover the eight fixes that deliver real results.

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10 Things Great Manufacturers Won’t Do

What sets top manufacturers apart?

Many teams still struggle with outdated, manual processes that slow production and raise costs. This whitepaper from Global Shop Solutions highlights the 10 things great manufacturers refuse to do—and how modern ERP systems help them operate smarter.

Inside, you’ll learn:

  • The outdated practices high performers avoid
  • How real-time data and automation cut waste
  • Why integrated ERP beats disconnected tools
  • The habits that drive efficiency and continuous improvement

Use these insights to reduce bottlenecks, improve accuracy, and build a more resilient operation.

Download the whitepaper to see the 10 things great manufacturers won’t do—and how your team can follow their lead.

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The UK Buyer’s Guide to 3D Room Planners

With shoppers expecting realistic, personalised product visuals, 3D room planning technology has become essential for enterprise furniture retailers. This guide explores how 3D planners help customers visualise complete spaces, improve buying confidence, and drive higher in-store and online conversions.

In this guide, you'll learn how retailers are using 3D planners to:

  • Enhance free design services: Create accurate 2D and 3D floor plans that help shoppers imagine furniture in their own space.
  • Increase transaction size: Upsell full-room solutions through personalised digital merchandising and product grouping.
  • Improve shopper confidence: 68% of furniture buyers prefer stores offering 3D visualisation services like room planners.
  • Streamline design workflows: Use accurate real-time geometry, lighting, and layout updates that support both customers and professional designers.
  • Centralise 3D content: Reduce vendor sprawl by managing visual assets across room planners, configurators, WebAR, and renders in one ecosystem.
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The UK Buyer’s Guide to 3D Product Configurators

As furniture shoppers increasingly begin their journeys online, clear, immersive product visualisation has become essential. This buyer’s guide explains how retailers and manufacturers can use 3D configurators to improve accuracy, reduce returns, and deliver a more confident buying experience across channels.

Inside the guide, you'll learn:

  • Which configurator type fits your needs: 3D product vs. 3D modular tools for complex, configurable catalogues.
  • No-code and ease-of-use features: empower large teams to update products and configurations without relying on developers.
  • Enterprise-grade efficiency: reuse 3D assets across configurators, AR, room planners, and renders to reduce duplicated work and vendor sprawl.
  • Integration essentials: PIM, DAM, ERP, and SIF support for accurate pricing, attributes, and order files across markets and channels.
  • Environmental impact and ROI: how digital visualisation reduces physical samples, improves accuracy, and supports sustainable operations.
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The US Buyer’s Guide to 3D Room Planners

Buyers expect to see how furniture fits and looks before they commit. This buyer’s guide walks enterprise retailers and manufacturers through selecting a 3D room planning platform that delivers fast floorplan creation, photoreal HD renders, and turnkey integrations with PIM/ERP for consistent omnichannel experiences.

Inside, you'll learn:

  • Key features to require: flexible floorplan tools, real-time 3D realism, and high-definition renders for polished proposals.
  • Operational benefits: vendor consolidation and reusable 3D assets that reduce manual work and support multiple channels.
  • Integration musts: PIM, inventory, add-to-cart, and SSO to ensure accurate pricing and seamless checkout.
  • Business impact: improved buyer confidence and measurable uplift in AOV and conversions.

Enterprise retailers using integrated 3D room planners see stronger engagement and higher order values—this guide gives you the checklist and vendor criteria to select the platform that fits your catalog, channels, and timeline.

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The US Buyer’s Guide to 3D Product Configurators

Shoppers expect immersive, accurate visuals when customizing products online. This buyer’s guide explains how enterprise retailers and manufacturers choose 3D configurators that scale from no-code editors to WebAR, PIM/ERP integration, and return-reducing render quality.

Inside the guide, you’ll learn:

  • Which platform type fits your catalog: product vs. modular configurators for single items or complex assemblies.
  • No-code & time to launch: why enterprise implementations typically target 8–12 weeks and what accelerates launch.
  • Integration & operational efficiency: PIM, DAM, ERP, SIF support, and reusing 3D assets across room planners, AR, and renders.
  • Cost vs. value: how to evaluate pricing models and measure ROI through reduced returns and operational savings.

Enterprise teams that pick the right configurator reduce manual work, improve order accuracy, and increase buyer confidence with near-photorealistic renders and AR previews. Use the checklist inside to compare vendors and avoid costly, low-value choices.

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The Modern Distributor’s Guide to Omnichannel B2B Commerce

The B2B distribution world has crossed a digital threshold. Buyers expect the same seamless, self-service experience they get from Amazon—but with the precision and personal touch only a distributor can provide. If your channels aren't connected, your customer experience and your margins are at risk.

This guide explains how forward-thinking distributors are unifying sales, operations, and customer experience to drive the next wave of growth.

Inside, you will learn:

  • Why Omnichannel is Today's Baseline: Digital channels now drive nearly half of all B2B revenue, and 80% of buyers have switched suppliers due to poor digital service.
  • The Three Pillars of Success: How to build a strategy based on a Single Source of Truth, a Consistent Buyer Experience, and Empowered Field Sales.
  • The Modern Tech Stack: See how Pepperi integrates with your ERP (SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics) to unify field sales, B2B eCommerce, and mobile ordering in one platform.
  • The Transformation Roadmap: A phased approach to integrate your ERP, launch channels, and achieve continuous optimization, often going live in weeks, not months.

Automation and integration are no longer "nice to have"—they're how you protect profit and build loyalty. Download the guide to assess your omnichannel readiness now.

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The UK Buyer’s Guide to 3D Room Planners

With shoppers expecting realistic, personalised product visuals, 3D room planning technology has become essential for enterprise furniture retailers. This guide explores how 3D planners help customers visualise complete spaces, improve buying confidence, and drive higher in-store and online conversions.

In this guide, you'll learn how retailers are using 3D planners to:

  • Enhance free design services: Create accurate 2D and 3D floor plans that help shoppers imagine furniture in their own space.
  • Increase transaction size: Upsell full-room solutions through personalised digital merchandising and product grouping.
  • Improve shopper confidence: 68% of furniture buyers prefer stores offering 3D visualisation services like room planners.
  • Streamline design workflows: Use accurate real-time geometry, lighting, and layout updates that support both customers and professional designers.
  • Centralise 3D content: Reduce vendor sprawl by managing visual assets across room planners, configurators, WebAR, and renders in one ecosystem.
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The UK Buyer’s Guide to 3D Product Configurators

As furniture shoppers increasingly begin their journeys online, clear, immersive product visualisation has become essential. This buyer’s guide explains how retailers and manufacturers can use 3D configurators to improve accuracy, reduce returns, and deliver a more confident buying experience across channels.

Inside the guide, you'll learn:

  • Which configurator type fits your needs: 3D product vs. 3D modular tools for complex, configurable catalogues.
  • No-code and ease-of-use features: empower large teams to update products and configurations without relying on developers.
  • Enterprise-grade efficiency: reuse 3D assets across configurators, AR, room planners, and renders to reduce duplicated work and vendor sprawl.
  • Integration essentials: PIM, DAM, ERP, and SIF support for accurate pricing, attributes, and order files across markets and channels.
  • Environmental impact and ROI: how digital visualisation reduces physical samples, improves accuracy, and supports sustainable operations.
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The US Buyer’s Guide to 3D Room Planners

Buyers expect to see how furniture fits and looks before they commit. This buyer’s guide walks enterprise retailers and manufacturers through selecting a 3D room planning platform that delivers fast floorplan creation, photoreal HD renders, and turnkey integrations with PIM/ERP for consistent omnichannel experiences.

Inside, you'll learn:

  • Key features to require: flexible floorplan tools, real-time 3D realism, and high-definition renders for polished proposals.
  • Operational benefits: vendor consolidation and reusable 3D assets that reduce manual work and support multiple channels.
  • Integration musts: PIM, inventory, add-to-cart, and SSO to ensure accurate pricing and seamless checkout.
  • Business impact: improved buyer confidence and measurable uplift in AOV and conversions.

Enterprise retailers using integrated 3D room planners see stronger engagement and higher order values—this guide gives you the checklist and vendor criteria to select the platform that fits your catalog, channels, and timeline.

View Now

The US Buyer’s Guide to 3D Product Configurators

Shoppers expect immersive, accurate visuals when customizing products online. This buyer’s guide explains how enterprise retailers and manufacturers choose 3D configurators that scale from no-code editors to WebAR, PIM/ERP integration, and return-reducing render quality.

Inside the guide, you’ll learn:

  • Which platform type fits your catalog: product vs. modular configurators for single items or complex assemblies.
  • No-code & time to launch: why enterprise implementations typically target 8–12 weeks and what accelerates launch.
  • Integration & operational efficiency: PIM, DAM, ERP, SIF support, and reusing 3D assets across room planners, AR, and renders.
  • Cost vs. value: how to evaluate pricing models and measure ROI through reduced returns and operational savings.

Enterprise teams that pick the right configurator reduce manual work, improve order accuracy, and increase buyer confidence with near-photorealistic renders and AR previews. Use the checklist inside to compare vendors and avoid costly, low-value choices.

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Madsen’s Custom Cabinets: AI-Powered ERP Case Study

For more than 60 years, Madsen’s Custom Cabinets has built a reputation for craftsmanship and quality. But as the company grew, so did the complexity of managing projects, schedules, and communication across a diverse workforce. To keep pace, they modernized with Epicor Kinetic ERP in the cloud and became early adopters of Epicor Prism AI.

The result? A smarter, more connected operation that helps the team move faster and focus on what matters most.

With AI-powered ERP, Madsen’s can:

  • Streamline scheduling and automate routine updates
  • Strengthen communication across customers, suppliers, and teams
  • Empower skilled employees to focus on growth and innovation

Read the full success story to see how AI + ERP is driving measurable results.

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How to Start an AI Initiative—And Scale it with Success

Starting your next transformation project? Before you invest in AI, make sure your foundation is ready. In this new IDC Spotlight Report, discover how manufacturers are building the infrastructure, governance, and integration needed to scale AI initiatives successfully. Learn how to break free from pilot projects, overcome data silos, and drive productivity across every part of your operation.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Build a digital foundation that supports scalable, data-driven AI initiatives
  • Transform early AI experiments into measurable business impact

If you’re planning your first AI project—or ready to take the next step—this report offers a clear roadmap to move from concept to competitive advantage.

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Why Your ERP Needs AI

Your ERP already holds the key to unlocking next-level performance—AI turns that potential into action. See how AI-powered ERP helps manufacturers move faster, work smarter, and compete with confidence:

  • Transform messy shop-floor data into real-time insights
  • Automate scheduling and minimize downtime
  • Improve forecasting accuracy and inventory control
  • Empower your workforce with intuitive, data-driven tools
  • Start small, prove ROI, and scale success across your operations

Discover how integrating AI with your ERP can accelerate decision-making, drive productivity, and prepare your business for the future of manufacturing.

Download the guide and take the first step toward AI-driven performance.

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