Wednesday 14 August 2013

Enterprise Resource Planning – Advantage


Emerging with new ideas and strategies to run business is not enough for businessmen in today’s competitive era. The organization needs to follow the latest trend to run their business systematically. These day, the corporations are becoming advance and making their entrepreneur well reputed among the competitors. As a result, companies are installing ERP system in their premises.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is software that integrates various functions of the organization in a single database. The software provides strong capabilities focused on reducing costs, improving customer responsiveness across the enterprise and streamlining processes all on top priorities toward achieving continued growth and profitability.

ERP Systems is helpful in tracking the work-flow across various departments and reduce the risk of duplicating data using individual & disparate systems and operational costs involved in manually tracking.

To know more about ERP system here are some of the advantages:

·            ERP keep track on all important processes across various departments of the corporation.

·       It ensures smooth transition/ completion of processes through automatic and coherent work-flow from one to another department.

·          It is a systematic and single reporting system to analyze the statistics/ numbers/ status etc of all departments.

·       Since same software is used across all departments – this can avoid individual departments having to buy and maintain their own software systems.

·         To provide Business Intelligence functionalities, ERP vendors can extend their ERP systems as well.

·       E-commerce integration is possible with ERP systems which can even handle web-based order processing.

·         To store all the information required by the ERP system, single database is implemented on the back-end which enables centralized storage / back-up of all enterprise data.

·         ERP is a modular software system thus it enables the organization to implement either one module or many based on the requirement. If more modules implemented, the integration between various departments might be better.

·     Various modules of ERP system are Manufacturing, Marketing / Sales, Supply Chain / Warehouse Management, Finance/ Accounts, Human Resource Management and many more.

·         ERP systems make it easier for inventory tracking, revenue tracking, order tracking, sales forecasting and related activities.


Professionals need not to scare from this system just install it in their organization and look at the results. The outcome will definitely win the heart of corporation. It has become choice of each small and big organization so, don’t waste the time installing it just get it as soon as possible. Such systems are the assurance of successful business like wise investment in any filed need a research work its pros and cons as some factors should be consider before investing in facebook ads.

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