What areas of ICT are manufacturers investing in?

Posted on 12 Jul 2017 by Jonny Williamson

This year’s Annual Manufacturing Report has shone a light on what the top three areas of planned expenditure in information communications technology (ICT) are for businesses over the next 12 months.

When it comes to manufacturers’ ICT priorities, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems unsurprisingly dominates. More than a third of businesses (38%) named it as their top investment priority. Other specialist software came next, identified by 29%, including: CRM, CAD and unspecified niche application upgrades. Hardware was cited by some 13% of manufacturers expecting to make…

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