Business Intelligence

BASM and Sage Pro Provide Bernatelloâ€™s a Recipe for Success

Founded in 1981, Bernatello’s got its start as a local tavern where pizzas were sold to area patrons.Â As its popularity increased, they began selling branded pizzas to local retail establishments.Â In â€™82 the tavern was sold and a manufacturing plant was started with a manual production line of eight employees applying ingredients by hand.Â Making 500 pizzas was considered a good day.Â As demand grew so did their production, distribution, and product lines.

Today, their Maple Lake, Minnesota plant runs four shifts, five days a week, employing over 165 people and the capabilities to produce 100,000 pizzas per day for millions of pizza lovers throughout the Midwest.Â The small family business has grown into an industry success story!

Posted in Business Intelligence, Client Testimonials, ERP, Food Industry on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | No Comments »

Being Self-Sufficient vs. Knowing When to Ask for Help

By Dan Eckhoff, BASM Project Lead

After reading a recent article about what value a VAR really brings to you, our clients, it made me think about how my role specifically provides value. I know that the value I bring stems from my background in accounting. I take a fiscally conservative approach to
everything and I always want to find the most effective and efficient way
to get things done. Iâ€™m cheap and I donâ€™t like to spend money – whether itâ€™s my own, or our clients.

In addition to working on client projects and creating custom reports, part of my role at BASM is to assist with help desk calls. This is always enlightening and if I could
communicate just two things to our clients it would be:

Posted in Articles, Business Intelligence on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | No Comments »

How to Make Business Intelligence Pay

Over the last decade, the vast majority of small and midsized businesses (SMBâ€™s) have implemented one or more generations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to help manage their day-to-day business processes such as accounting, order entry and operations.

Distribution companies have typically augmented these systems with inventory control and warehouse management capabilities, while manufacturing companies have added bills of materials (BOMâ€™s) and Material Requirement Planning (MRP I) or Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) functionality.

During this time we have seen three distinct waves of business software implementations:

Posted in Business Intelligence on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | No Comments »