Data visibility helps manufacturers improve efficiency and reduce costs. When data is collected, organized, and analyzed, it provides knowledge on how to improve workflow. Manufacturers need access to accurate information about their products at all times for efficient production planning and scheduling. This data promotes quality control processes like design reviews before new product launches.  With data visibility, manufacturers can see what's going on in an organization. It provides transparency throughout the data life cycle from creation through use until retention or

Strategic alliances are a key part of business strategy for companies of all sizes and in every industry. Partnering with other companies, even (and sometimes especially) those you compete with, can enable entrance to new markets, access to new customers, innovative change, and new insights.  Strategic collaboration can be particularly beneficial in manufacturing when companies look to enter new product arenas, enhance efficiency, or increase scale. Harvard Business Review’s decades-old but still very relevant assessment of strategic business partnerships hits

Salesforce Government Contracting - How You Can Benefit Business models for government contracting differ quite a bit from those for commercial businesses, mainly due to stricter regulations governing the acquisition of goods and services by the federal government. As a result, contract-related (and many other) systems and processes throughout government agencies have remained siloed and unfortunately become antiquated, not keeping up pace with the speed, intelligence, and customizability of their commercial counterparts. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to be the case.

Sourcing Federal Business Opportunities in Salesforce Federal business opportunities exist for every kind of product or service you can think of, from paper clips to aircraft carriers and catering to construction. The government signs more than 11 million contracts each year, yet right now less than 5% of all companies do business with the U.S. government. If government contracts and sales are such a huge market opportunity, why are so few companies pursuing them? Most times, it’s because they just