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Jakes Mantle

Jakes Mantle

As the Sales Excellence Executive at SYSPRO, Jakes is responsible for providing leadership, direction, support, and provisioning of the demo server environment to the sales department. Jakes is a results-driven leader with extensive product knowledge skilled at pursuing new sales prospects, maintaining customer satisfaction and relationship building. With over 27 years at SYSPRO across various departments and roles, his passion is formulating solutions for customers to improve their business processes resulting in success.

Posts by Jakes Mantle

ERP ImplementationERP systems

How Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Thinking About ERP (TAE) can be used with an ERP system

A movement has been around for a few years called Business Transformation. Twenty years ago, a different action — Business …

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Managing-Operating ERPERP Implementation

How do Units of Measure (UOM) work within an ERP system

When you go to a store to buy a soda, you expect to be able to get it in a …

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ERP ImplementationERP systems

How to make best use of the Bill of Materials (BOM) in your ERP

For a manufacturer, the Bill of Materials (BOM) is the recipe (the ingredients and their amount, with the preparation instructions) …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPERP and Lean Manufacturing

Assemble-to-Order manufacturing Part 2: ERP solutions to improve operations

With a manufacturing operation based on Assemble-to-order (ATO), success hinges on being able to get products to customers quickly. There …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP and Lean Manufacturing

Assemble to Order manufacturing Part 1: Advantages and challenges

In 1984, a university student with limited space and inventory started assembling computers in his university dorm room. Customers could …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPERP Implementation

How manufacturers and distributors can re-imagine procurement in the supply chain

Procurement in manufacturing companies is often not done correctly. It’s not because key business requirements are missed, but because the …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP systems

How ERP enables traceability in the automotive parts and accessories industry

The automotive industry is in a perpetual state of change. Globally linked economies, tight competition, and emerging markets all force …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP and Lean Manufacturing

How electronics manufacturers can use ERP to address industry challenges

The electronics industry has experienced dramatic changes on the customer and supplier side in the last 18 months – from …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP and Lean Manufacturing

The role that ERP systems can take in helping IM&E

There’s no doubt that the COVID pandemic has led to major changes in the way companies work. It has also …

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