Sustainability reporting has moved from a corporate communications activity to a finance-grade discipline, and it has moved fast. CFOs in 2026 are being asked to produce emissions, waste, and supplier-impact data with the same rigor as financial data — auditable at the transaction level, defensible to regulators and rating agencies, and increasingly required at the…
Every CFO and COO who has lived through a multi-year ERP implementation knows the unspoken rule that follows it: don’t touch the system for at least five years. The risk of breaking something is too high, the customization debt too deep, the change management exhaustion too fresh. That rule is now actively damaging manufacturers, because…
There’s a phrase showing up across manufacturing technology coverage in 2026: ERP is shifting from “system of record” to “system of action.” It’s a useful frame, but it can sound abstract until you watch what it actually changes inside an operation. Here’s the concrete version, pulled from how IFS Cloud customers are running their plants…
For most of the last twenty years, the manufacturing ERP conversation at the executive level has been about consolidation, cost control, and risk reduction. Pick a stable platform. Standardize processes. Get the books closed faster. The systems that won those evaluations were the ones that promised the fewest surprises. That conversation has changed. In 2026,…
