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Payroll Integration in HCM Modernization: The Cost of Leaving Scheduling Behind

Payroll Integration in HCM Modernization: The Cost of Leaving Scheduling Behind

If your scheduling and payroll systems don’t talk to each other, someone in your organization is bridging that gap by hand every pay cycle. That gap between disconnected scheduling and payroll operations is one of the most expensive and least visible operational drains in the HCM landscape, and it touches

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Scheduling and Payroll Integration Gaps: The Hidden Cost of Overtime and Premium-Pay Errors

What happens when a new pay period comes, and the same issues keep showing up? Labor costs come in higher than what scheduling projected. Managers...

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ERP

ERP Contract Leakage: How the Gap Between Procurement and AP Erodes Your Negotiated Savings

Your procurement team negotiates hard for every dollar. But somewhere between the signed contract and the invoice that clears accounts payable, a significant share of...

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ERP

JDE Talent Crisis: Why Modernization in Place Beats a Full Migration

Every JD Edwards organization eventually faces the same strategic question: migrate to a new ERP platform, or modernize the one you’ve been running for decades?...

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ERP

The “Farm System Playbook”: How Internal Training and Promotion Can Tackle the JD Edwards Talent Crisis

The people who know your JD Edwards system best are the ones who configured it, customized it, and have built decades of undocumented tribal knowledge...

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ERP

The JD Edwards Talent Crisis: How to Manage Institutional Knowledge Risk Before Your JDE Expert Retires

The most experienced JD Edwards professionals in your organization are approaching retirement, and the institutional knowledge they carry about your ERP environment isn’t something you...

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ERP

ERP Cost Reduction: How Spreadsheets Hide Enterprise Software Waste

Most companies think they have a spending problem. More often, they have a visibility problem that leads to software waste nobody can point to on...

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Building a JDE Tribal Knowledge Transfer Plan Before Your Best People Retire

At INFOCUS 2026, we hosted a panel of IT leaders from across industries who are all navigating the same challenge: their most experienced JD Edwards...

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ERP

INFOCUS 2026 Recap: What JD Edwards Users Need to Know

Oracle’s INFOCUS 2026 keynote session has a clear throughline: modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. From a refreshed Redwood-style interface to a 64-bit mandate to...

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Distribution

What Does It Cost When Your WMS and ERP Don’t Talk?

Imagine this — at 2:00 p.m., a pallet gets picked and loaded, and the truck pulls out on schedule. But your ERP won't know any...

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ERP

ERP Cost Reduction Guide: Closing the Visibility Gap on Fragmentation and Underutilization

Drawing on hands-on client experience across ERP, HCM, and SCM environments, this guide explores how fragmentation and underutilization quietly cost organizations millions a year in...

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Distribution

Paperless Manufacturing Is an Integration Project, Not a Digitization One

When a plant goes live on a new MES or a quality tablet app, the paper forms disappear from the floor, the binders come down, and...

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ERP

The Hidden Cost of Siloed Systems: How Fragmentation Drives ERP Overspending

Drawing on hands-on client experience, this piece explores how fragmented systems can cost organizations millions a year in hard and soft costs that most never...

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Epic Consulting News & Updates Blog

How to Choose the Right ERP Consulting Firm

An ERP consulting firm helps organizations select, implement, optimize, and support enterprise resource planning systems. These firms range from global systems integrators managing multi-year transformations to...

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ERP

“One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) Act: The New Frontier of Healthcare & Business Compliance

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025, marking one of the most sweeping legislative changes since the...

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ERP

Don’t Wait for the Freeze: Why ERP Optimization is Your Best Winterization Strategy

Over the past few weeks, regions across the United States that aren’t typically accustomed to chilling winter weather have been faced with record-breaking temperatures, snowfall,...

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