Manufacturing Complexity Is Rising: 8 Ways ERP Helps Make-to-Order Manufacturers Stay in Control
Manufacturing growth creates opportunity. It can also create complexity. More customers bring more orders. More product options create more configurations. More suppliers create more purchasing decisions. More technology creates more data. And as manufacturers expand, processes that once worked through spreadsheets, emails, and employee knowledge can become increasingly difficult to manage. That challenge is becoming especially important in 2026. Recent manufacturing research found that the share of manufacturers describing most of what they produce as extremely or very complex…




