What can ERP do?
True ERP is designed to do many different things in all the different departments of your business.
Manage, track, organize, forecast and expand your business using ERP but the answer to this question should be what do you want it to do.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) should enable your company to do just that. What tools you use and how should be based on what your organization needs. In what order you implement the system should also be based on your companies situation. So what ERP is and does maybe be different from organization to organization but……
At its core it should
- Process sales orders – entry, shipping, invoicing
- Accounting fully integrated and functional
- CRM
- Costing in any mode Standard, Average, Lot
- Production scheduling
- Estimating
- Bar Coding
- Reports
- Purchasing
- Bills of materials and routing’s
Every company has different needs and priorities so you may not need all the things listed or you may need some different things, the point is, ERP is about what you need more than what the software can do. Canned software or approaches rarely work in the small to mid size market because organizations have different expectations and issues.
Today we see many new and exciting things ERP can do with interfaces to websites, vendors, shipping companies and even PDA’s making communication more cost effective and timely.
A full ERP system should integrate all facets of the company into one flexible easy to use package, and because it is not vertical it should be ready to handle any business process you can throw at it. The ability to cost things based on standard or actual or average allows the system to work in mixed mode environments. Edit screens and menus to allow users only what they are allowed to see, mine data with one of many different reports, including super query modules that allow you to view and export the data in any of a number of configurations are things you should expect ERP to do for your company.
Try these other informative pages or visit our ERP123 product page by selecting your business type at the bottom of the page.
ERP guide- Use these pages as resource when investigating what the world of ERP is all about.
Visit our blog to get some helpful tips or learn more about what ERP can do for your business.
ERP flowcharts- Like to see what ERP flowcharts look like.
ERP123 video -If you are ready to look at a small business ERP or business software solution.
