ERP

Why ERP?

Do you live in ISLANDS of automation ?

It is normal for any company to automate individual process. Most of the time small applications are developed to suit one situation. They cost less, automates instantly ....a cost saving measure!! At the end of the day you have built your islands of automation.

Trouble starts when transactions increase, when you find a lot of duplicated work and need arises to interface applications. It is then you know - all your 'little darling' applications refuse to talk to each other.

Sometimes, you can get them talk to each other with expensive links. But then, over a period of time the cost of maintaining the overlapped, redundant and patch worked systems is much more than installing a new system.

Then again the need arises to integrate your processes and eliminate all your complex and expensive links between your 'islands'.

So what's ERP ?

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning are packaged but customizable software application which manage data from various organizational activities and provide a fully integrated solution to major organizational data management problems. ERP Integrates your entire business process - Supply chain, Human Resource, Finance, Manufacturing, Ware housing etc.

There are several drivers which influence companies to invest in ERPs. Broadly speaking the benefits can be classified into three groups – improve business process , accurate and timely information –MIS & Customer focused.

Drilling down the three groups the other driving factors areSeamless integration of all major business processes
Replaces legacy system
Improves interactions and communications with internal and external customers
Quick information retrieval
Improves MIS
Improves order management
Enables globalization as it supports multi lingual and multi currency
The Features which differentiate ERPs from other low end accounting software are

Integration
- Consolidation
- Process Automation capability
- OLTP feature
- Reliability & security features
- Retrieval options
- Multi organization
- Multi currency
- Multi Language

Though SMEs are small in size and turnover, they almost have the same business functionalities as that of a large company. They continue to have multiple offices in various locations, they have started to realize the need to integrate all the internal departments within the company to avoid islands of automation.