Over the past decade, one of the biggest advances in enterprise resource planning (ERP) has been the ability to communicate and integrate with machines and external software programs to lower costs and increase efficiency. For example, BOM Compare software can reduce engineering costs and get jobs into production much faster by expediting the design-to-production process. Integrating ERP with nesting software can significantly lower material and labor costs, and reduce scrap, by automatically determining the most efficient way to cut parts on a piece of metal.

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