WBSRocks: Business Growth with Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation
WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on customer experience, digital transformation, supply chain, eCommerce, industry 4.0, and enterprise software categories such as CRM, ERP, or analytics suites. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily commercial, operational, or financial challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various enterprise software vendors and solutions, and their mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 767
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
WBSP086: Grow Your Business by Aligning Manufacturing Strategies With Business Goals w/ Kishore Khaitan
What helps you compete in the market? Is it your unique product? Is it your operational efficiency? Is it your market segment? Or is it the alignment of your manufacturing and operation…
WBSP085: Grow Your Business by Benchmarking Your Expenses Against Other Companies w/ Scott Berman and Jake Lindmark
If you are involved in vendor negotiations or expense management, it's hard to know if you may be overpaying for services or goods. What if there was a way to benchmark your expenses ag…
WBSP084: Grow Your Business by Increasing the Productivity of Your Warehouse Through ASRS Systems w/ Tim Harrison
Warehouses have been using automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) for a long time. While they have come a long way in their capabilities and along with their interactions with o…
WBSP083: Grow Your Business by Learning To Navigate Vendor Consolidation Situations by Your Key Customers w/ Paul Serafino
How would you feel if you had a handful of customers with huge leverage decided to consolidate their vendors and put pressure to cut the prices further that you might not be able to aff…
WBSP082: Grow Your Business by Classifying and Promoting the Reuse of Existing CAD Models w/ Andrew Hood
Whether you are releasing new parts or making changes to existing parts, you will likely go through the engineering change process (ECN). More often than not, engineering organizations …
WBSP081: Grow Your Business by Learning Key Nuances From the Cosmetics Manufacturing Industry w/ Erin Williams
SMB manufacturers and distributors in the personal care industry face unique challenges. These difficulties could be even more for organic products or the items that need to comply with…
WBSP080: Grow Your Business by Increasing Your Win Rate While Selling Through Procurement w/ Jill Robbins
As procurement departments and buyers become more sophisticated, manufacturers and distributors will see more scrutiny from their customers, especially if they might be selling high-val…
WBSP079: Grow Your Business by Increasing Adoption of Your CRM System w/ Seamus Ruiz-Earle
Your CRM system is key to managing your customer relationships and providing the customer experience to help you stand out among your competitors. While most organizations may use some …
WBSP078: Grow Your Business by Reducing Processing Costs Through P-Card Program w/ Scott Engelking
When you grow in transactions and have many low-dollar transactions, the cost of processing transactions could be higher than the expense being paid. You might also face this when you m…
WBSP077: Grow Your Business by Tracking the Real-Time Location of Your Critical Assets w/ Viren Mathuria
Remember walking around a gym to find the weight you wanted for your next set of exercises? It could be even more frustrating and inefficient to locate a tool or asset in a large manufa…
WBSP076: Grow Your Business by Choosing Scalable E-Commerce Platform and Architecture w/ Erin Courtnay and Eric Landmann
If you are building or upgrading your e-commerce capabilities, you are likely to evaluate several platforms. This evaluation needs to be comprehensive, covering factors ranging from leg…
WBSP075: Grow Your Business Through Robust Corporate Performance Management Practices w/ Alok Ajmera
Cash is the lifeblood of a company. Cash forecasting is the discovery process to predict your future cash needs. How would you feel if you discovered that you had four months of cash le…
WBSP074: Grow Your Business by Becoming Operationally Resilient To Combat Uncertainty w/ Tamar Nelson
If you focused on the metrics for each employee where they contributed to the organization's overall improvement, it could result in millions of dollars of savings. But finding the area…
WBSP073: Grow Your Business Through Real-Time Inventory Replenishment Using RFID w/ Andrew Johnson
RFID technology has been available for a long time, but its adoption has been limited to high-value assets. Most manufacturers might not believe that RFID technologies can track commodi…
WBSP072: Grow Your Business by Optimizing Your Facility’s Energy Consumption w/ Mike Nager
Energy has always been one of the heaviest line items on a P&L for manufacturers. While manufacturing executives are acutely aware of the energy costs, they have struggled to enforce en…
WBSP071: Grow Your Business by Keeping Appropriate Inventory Levels Through Material Requirement Planning w/ Marcia Williams
Material requirement planning helps in keeping the appropriate inventory levels that you need for manufacturing. If the MRP processes are not optimized, it could result in surplus inven…
WBSP070: Grow Your Business by Mitigating Financial Risks Through Experimental Design and Additive Manufacturing w/ Kevin Mako
With new trends and technologies such as additive manufacturing and experimental design, it's never been this easy to launch and disrupt a hardware product category. The traditional man…
WBSP069: Grow Your Business Through Partnership With Tech Vendors and External Research w/ Shari Lava
While other industries such as banking or logistics have successfully differentiated purely because of technology, manufacturers treat digital technologies as their stepchild, especiall…
WBSP068: Grow Your Business by Using Business Processes as a Sales Tool w/ Paul Van Metre
Running a machine shop is complicated with complex parts, heavy precision needs, and tricky materials handling requirements. With cost pressures from customers, rising material costs, a…
WBSP067: Grow Your Business by Understanding Costing Granularity and Product Profitability w/ Christiano Gherardini
Cost accounting is a complex topic. You have so many different choices, and sometimes it's hard to decide which method may be appropriate for your business. If you choose an incorrect a…