MetalForming Conference to address ERP software developments.

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PMA's MetalForming magazine announces The Manufacturing ERP Experience—a conference that will provide small to midsized manufacturing companies with information on new business-management software for inventory and order management, scheduling, and costing. Scheduled for April 5–6, event includes case-study presentations describing successful software-implementation projects, demonstrations from leading suppliers of ERP software, and keynotes on latest trends and developments in ERP software.



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MetalForming Magazine to Hold Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on ERP Software Developments



CLEVELAND, OH—MetalForming magazine, the flagship publication of the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), announces The Manufacturing ERP Experience—a conference that will provide small to midsized manufacturing companies with information on new business-management software for inventory and order management, costing, scheduling and more.



Scheduled for April 5-6, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN, the event includes case-study presentations describing successful software-implementation projects; demonstrations from leading suppliers of ERP software—Epicor Software Corp., Plex Systems, ECi Software Systems and Exact JobBOSS—and keynotes on the latest trends and developments in ERP software, including:



  • ERP and CRM data integration, presented by Dan Faia, executive vice president, Datix.


  • Tips for selecting the right software for your manufacturing organization, delivered by Eric Kimberling, managing partner, Panorama Consulting Solutions.


  • A presentation on managing change—the key to a successful ERP makeover.


  • The must-haves before starting an ERP selection project, presented by Sheldon Needle, owner, CTSguides


Visit www.metalformingmagazine.com/erp  for complete details and online registration.



Contact Susan Hunter-Vazinski at 216-901-8800 or shunter@pma.org  for more information.



PMA is the full-service trade association representing the $137-billion metalforming industry of North America—the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping, fabricating, spinning, slide forming and roll forming technologies, and other value-added processes.  Its nearly 900 member companies also include suppliers of equipment, materials and services to the industry.  PMA leads innovative member companies toward superior competitiveness and profitability through advocacy, networking, statistics, the PMA Educational Foundation, FABTECH and METALFORM Mexico tradeshows, and MetalForming, Fabricating Product News and 3D Metal Printing magazines.

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