Manufacturing Enterprise - Opportunities and Challenges Your manufacturing enterprise must be able to adapt to changing customer demands, given the speed of mergers and acquisitions, foreign competition, and new regulations. This means that you need to coordinate, integrate, and optimize all activities of your customers, trading partners, and users spread across your business in an environment of constant change and evolution. Software 21's FlexGen4 - Adaptive Enterprise (FlexGen4 - AE), solution can help you to identify and overcome these business challenges, capitalize on new market opportunities, and adapt to change effectively. FlexGen 4 – AE meets many business needs. The primary requirement is to organize complex manufacturing enterprises around a common set business values, goals, and objectives.