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Articles by Phil Abbott
From Warehouse to Doorstep: How Priority ERP Completes the Delivery Cycle
Ask anyone who works in logistics what the most stressful part of the supply chain is, and the last mile comes up every time. It is expensive, complex, and is the bit the customer sees. Everything that happened upstream – the planning, the procurement, the warehouse operations – is invisible to them. What they notice is whether the delivery arrived on time, in full and whether anyone knew where it was when they asked.
Priority aiERP Shows Where Enterprise Software Is Heading
Priority’s aiERP offers a practical demonstration of where AI integration in enterprise software is heading. After watching the ERP industry talk about AI for years, it’s worth examining what happens when embedded capability is genuinely baked into the architecture rather than added as a feature layer. The difference becomes apparent when you see how users interact with the system and, more importantly, what they can accomplish that was previously difficult or impossible.
How ERP integrations create information ecosystems that actually work
By Phil Abbott, Director, ABS Limited. Here's a fundamental truth about ERP systems: they're powerful as standalone solutions, but they become transformational when integrated strategically. An ERP system should serve as the single source of truth, as your master database supplying all the necessary business information to operate efficiently. Treating it as an isolated system is like buying a sports car and never taking it out of second gear.
The hidden ERP feature that could save your team hours every day
By Phil Abbott, Director at ABS Limited. Too often customer service teams are drowning in routine requests for copy invoices, order statuses and shipping confirmations. The frustrating reality? This administrative burden isn't an inevitable cost of doing business, it's a symptom of under-utilising one of your ERP system's most powerful features that can eliminate hours of daily administrative work.
Manufacturing intelligence: leveraging MRP for competitive advantage
By Phil Abbott, Director at ABS Limited. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is often misunderstood despite being fundamentally quite straightforward. At its core, MRP is a set of basic calculations - there are just lots of them happening simultaneously. What exactly does an MRP system do? In its simplest form, it starts by analysing your sales orders to determine what parts you need to purchase.
Don't Replace Your ERP System Until You've Done This First
When a business has been using an ERP system for any reasonable length of time, it can gradually become less effective, and problems inevitably appear. These aren’t always system failures, often, they’re subtle process inefficiencies that can silently impact or restrict a business’s revenue and growth. The primary reason ERP systems need periodic evaluation is simple: businesses evolve, but their systems don’t keep pace.
What place could Saturday’s superb win over Colchester take in Bradford City folklore?
By Phil Abbott, Damien Wilkinson, Nikhil Vekaria and Jason McKeown Pre-amble By Jason McKeown Monday morning and Bradford has its usual hum. Offices reopen and school weeks begin. Canal Road wheezes under congestion. Five Lane Ends has five never-ending queues. “How was your weekend?” conversations fill the air as friends, colleagues and classmates catch up.
The case for more Indigenous commemoration in Canada
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Reconsideringhistorical commemoration often triggers strong responses. Some see removing monuments, renaming buildings or altering plaques as erasing history, whereas othersinterpret these actions as corrections to inaccurate, incomplete or harmful stories about the past.
Cut costs and errors: The power of end-to-end data exchange
By Phil Abbott, Director at ABS Limited. In today's complex business landscape, many organisations operate with multiple entities under one umbrella – typically a sales arm and a manufacturing division, or separate B2B and B2C operations. While this structure offers strategic advantages, it traditionally creates significant operational challenges, particularly around duplication, cost efficiencies, human errors across data management and slow inter-company transactions.
What we offer the public sector
With a wide range of services on offer, we are able to provide bespoke services to the public sector throughout the UK. Including schools, colleges, libraries, councils, hospitals, and museums, we are able to cater for the individual needs of an organisation, no matter how big or small.
Gutierrez edging closer to IndyCar return
Esteban Gutierrez has been on the prowl for sponsorship since his final outing with Dale Coyne Racing at Pocono, and it sounds like the native of Monterrey, Mexico, is close to making a return. The ex-Formula 1 driver enjoyed what he found in IndyCar as a last-minute replacement for the injured Sebastien Bourdais, and if the rumors are true, the 26-year-old could become part of the Ed Carpenter Racing team in 2018 as teammate to full-time driver Spencer Pigot.
Hinchcliffe deal possible by Sonoma
With Alexander Rossi's return to Andretti Autosport on a multi-year deal, James Hinchcliffe has been handed the keys to the silly season. There are plenty of current and aspiring Verizon IndyCar Series drivers who are also looking to lock down their futures, including Chip Ganassi Racing's Tony Kanaan and Zach Veach – who is believed to be on the cusp of announcing a deal – but few have the power to influence the market like the Mayor of Hinchtown.
Andretti, Rossi staying with Honda
Alexander Rossi will be staying with Michael Andretti in 2018, which answers the question about which engine manufacturer Andretti Autosport is going to be running. RACER can report they're both staying with Honda. The lengths of their respective contracts are unknown.
Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective
Like werewolves and vampires, bacteria have a weakness: silver. The precious metal has been used to fight infection for thousands of years — Hippocrates first described its antimicrobial properties in 400 bc — but how it works has been a mystery.
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