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Benefits Of ERP Systems in Manufacturing Business 

Manufacturing businesses across Alberta face constant pressure. Orders must go out on time. Costs must stay under control. Quality cannot slip. The demands of a stable system become harder for operations managers and IT directors in growing manufacturing firms. The scattered systems and software for different departments create gaps where errors hide. Enterprise resource planning…

How ERP Systems in Manufacturing Improve Efficiency

Production lines are being run, orders are being received, and the inventory numbers are not matched by what is actually on the floor. Orders are being placed by the procurement team based on outdated data, and reports that should have been ready days ago are still being waited on by the finance team. Many manufacturing…

The Manufacturing Ceiling: A CEO’s Perspective on Scaling in 2026

By Richard Paterno, CEO of Blue Sky Consulting In the world of manufacturing, growth is a double-edged sword. As a CEO, I’ve seen it time and again: a company lands a major contract, orders surge, and the team is energized. But within weeks, the cracks begin to show. Inventory counts drift, production schedules become “best…

Beyond the Spreadsheet: A CEO’s Guide to Digital Maturity in 2026

By Richard Paterno, CEO of Blue Sky Consulting In my two decades of consulting, I’ve noticed a recurring pattern among high-growth companies. There is a specific, often painful moment when “the way we’ve always done it” suddenly stops working. You feel it in the executive meetings first. The CFO is chasing down numbers that don’t…

Top 10 Diamond Studded Lessons Learned When Deploying Training

Over the decades, we helped our clients put in Oracle, the last piece of the puzzle, and often the most important part was to deliver training. Sadly, as implementers, you rarely think of the nuances your client’s employees must go through. Here are the top 10 lessons that we have learned throughout some of our…

The Insider’s Guide to Reading People

Everyone’s heard of Murphy’s Law. (or laws, as the case may be). Whenever things just can’t seem to go your way, someone always pipes up and says “yep. Murphy’s law.” Then everyone just chuckles, shakes their head and moves on with life. So I got curious. Who the heck was this Murphy person? And how…