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Jon Devine

Jon Devine is a Senior Solutions Executive at SYSPRO Australasia. Jon has extensive experience in both operations and software companies having fulfilled operational and consulting roles across a variety of industries including Automotive, Electronics, Process (Paper and Plastic) to Chip fabrication. This knowledge and experience gained allows him to understand the challenges faced by manufacturers and distributors and to help them be successful.

Posts by Jon Devine

ERP for Manufacturing

ERP addresses the challenges of MTO manufacturers

Reading Time: 7 minutesMake-to-Order (MTO) manufacturing is the production of specialized or unique one-off products in quantities ranging from one to small production …

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Using ERP for flexible manufacturing

Reading Time: 5 minutesTraditional manufacturing favored long production runs of the same product because retooling machines to produce different products could cost time …

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Managing cost, quality and traceability in fabricated metals manufacturing

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Asia-Pacific region has one of the largest number of fabricated metals manufacturers in the world. Cost efficiency, quality management …

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How an ERP system can help manufacturers

Reading Time: 4 minutesHaving looked at the ten reasons why an ERP system can help manufacturers, let’s look at manufacturing-specific functions that an …

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10 reasons why you should use an ERP system in manufacturing

Reading Time: 6 minutesFor manufacturers that have grown up from a small business, with a handful of employees and few customers, to one …

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