The backbone of any successful manufacturing company is the deployment of resources - inputs, people, process, cash, logistics - to maximum efficiency.
Modern ERP is how to make that happen.
This series of 6 episodes tells the story of companies and people achieving extraordinary levels of transformation through digital technology.
Connecting Digital Transformation to the Bigger Industrial Picture
The world is in turmoil, the like of which we haven’t seen for a very long time. From energy to geopolitics, things are shifting in ways that have a direct impact on manufacturers, from fragile supply chains through to energy shocks.
In this, the last in our ERP in Context series, we’re not going to dwell on those issues, but we are going to try to create positive roadmaps that manufacturers can follow for a brighter, more secure future – for them, their people and for the wider economy.
Nick Leeder (https://www.linkedin.com/in/redeel), the UK and Ireland CEO of the global not-for-profit consultancy INCIT (https://incit.org/) joins Epicor’s Mark Feathers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-feathers) to review the issues raised in our series.
The podcast is hosted by Nick Peters (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpeters1) of ManufacturingTV.
15 Sept 2026
Building Resilience in an Age of Disruption
Manufacturing Resilience is a much-used phrase currently, with industry under an array of pressures from global events and domestic issues such as taxation, energy-prices and skills shortages. To weather all that, you need to be resilient. But you also need the tools and mindset to support you.
BrookTech in Sheffield is a consultancy whose whole purpose in life is to provide manufacturers with the tools and the advice to become more resilient.
BrookTech works closely with INCIT, the International Centre for Industrial Transformation, using a hugely successful series of indices to measure the health of manufacturing companiesand their readiness for change.
BrokkTech's CEO Andrew Armstrong is talking with Nick Peters of ManufacturingTV.
15 Sept 2026
Giving UK Manufacturing a Clearer Route to Transformation
The last 10 years in manufacturing have been dominated by the march of technology and a blizzard of messaging about how smart manufacturers can become - or be made – smarter.There is of course a government programme of that name, Made Smarter, designed to carry that message and the promise it holds to SMEs in the UK.
The message doesn’t always get through and now we have the added factor of AI which has gone from being a technology that lay behind many of the smart systems on offer in recent years to being a major disruptive – let’s call it game-changing - advance.
The International Centre for Industrial Transformation INCIT is a non-profit global organisation whose goal is to bring order and understanding to the mass of messaging around technology and automation, and Nick Leeder (https://www.linkedin.com/in/redeel) is INCIT’s CEO for UK and Ireland.
He is joined in conversation by Nick Peters of ManufacturingTV
12 Dec 2025
Why ERP is the foundation for success in the building materials sector
Digital transformation is reshaping the building materials sector, an area often seen as slow to change.
In this episode of ERP in Context, Adam Lee from Epicor explains the company’s deep focus on vertical industries and spotlights Norman Piette, a forward-thinking Channel Islands business with centuries of history.
Norman Piette’s Head of IT, Steve Powell, shares how moving from paper-based invoicing to Epicor’s cloud ERP and digital tools have improved accuracy, efficiency, and customer service, even across multiple sites and different islands.
The secret? Strong leadership, an openness to try new things, and a genuine partnership between Norman Piette and Epicor.
The result? A modern business that’s agile, efficient, and ready for the future.
17 Nov 2025
How ERP transformed a distribution company's future
Distribution companies are in the front line when supply chains come under pressure, and that has certainly been the case in the most recent past.
This episode of ERP in Context examines how a Northern Ireland company VSSCo, which services the province’s veterinary practices, has deployed ERP solutions from Epicor to bring not only a whole new level of service to its customers but has also improved its own productivity, profitability and scalability.
Host Nick Peters (linkedin.com/in/nickpeters1)is joined by Epicor’s Adam Lee (linkedin.com/in/adam-lee-1478897) and VSSCo’s John Scott (linkedin.com/in/johnscott9).
23 Aug 2025
Why should I invest in ERP?
Manufacturers in the UK are credited with being among the most innovative in the world. And yet when it comes to the technology that can also help them be among the most productive in the world, there been an historical reluctance to invest in the digital tools that will help them achieve that.
The first episode of ERP IN CONTEXT from EPICOR look at some of the resons for that, in the company of Mike Wilson, head of Robotics and Automation at the MTC in Coventry, and top Epicor experts Mark Feathers and Adam Lee.
Your host is Nick Peters of ManufacturingTV.
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