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It's a golden rule that businesses try to do more with less. Enterprise resource planning solution in combination with lean project management methodologies allowed companies to follow this rule. ERP systems promote natural business development processes to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness, while removing disproportions and redundancies. ERP implementations help companies identify multiple points of inefficiencies per functional area, develop corrective actions plans, and put lean methods into place.
Why Implement Enterprise Resource Planning Solution
The ultimate success in implementing ERP systems depends not only on capturing all requirements that current business processes lay down today, but also on creating and following a list of realistic "should-be" changes. The term "realistic" is crucial, since the "should-be" list represents the most expected and attainable improvements to be made to business environment. If you capture changes which aren't reasonable to your business, then implementing ERP solutions will be rather inefficient. Your "should-be" list should cover changes that could improve your business processes and provide your company with financial, technical, social and other benefits and expected return on investment (ROI).
Enjoy the Benefits of Using ERP Software
Lean project management implemented by enterprise resource planning software lets automate and support a range of administrative and operational activities, including sales, customer service, inventory control, order tracking, project management, payroll etc. Organizations evaluating and comparing different ERP solutions typically look at upgrading their current systems that are either obsolete or a poor fit. What are their ultimate objectives? To ensure IT and operational cost savings; to remove process gaps and inefficiencies; to re-organize the business in a way that makes innovation and improved CRM realistic and attainable.
Acceptable ROI per Functional Area
Whatever business goals you strive to achieve, lean and ERP software solutions will help you obtain acceptable ROI across every functional area in your company, including:
- Finance - your finance department is enabled to get fully integrated with business operations and transactions, so it becomes easer to accurately calculate losses and profits.
- Sales - your sales team gains complete visibility and control of purchases, leads, inventories, customer profiles, and sales reports.
- CRM - your customer service team grows the client base, generates accurate quotes, updates product catalogs, and keeps track of accurate delivery dates.
- Project Management - now the campaigns and projects of your businesses are easier to plan and manage as you can use real-time data in ERP software to proactively manage performance metrics that matter to your projects.
- Supply Chain - your supply chain management team is enabled to create vendor profiles, make delivery schedules, keep contracts, specifications and other files in one database, link their assignments to purchase orders, and collaborate with sales and production.
Involve Business Users in Selecting Right ERP Solution
Along with executive buy-in and resource commitment, one of the fundamental keys to successful ERP selection is letting business users drive the selection process on their own. When business users begin to evaluate the pros and cons of a lean enterprise resource planning solution, the process becomes less about price and technology and more about functional fit - which is critical to right ERP selection and implementation. As a rule, they are provided with a free evaluation copy to test the functionality and indentify whether this solution fits their business needs. Such things as user-friendly interface and customization are of top priority, since most business users look at possible ways to tailor ERP software to their specific needs and enjoy simple and intuitive controls.
Basic Functionality
CentriQS software provides ERP solutions that are designed for deep functional fit, extended end-user tailoring, and simplicity in use. As a business user, you can download a trial copy of the software, which is full-featured and available for free use within 30 days. During the trial period you and others users can evaluate the basic functionality of the software - particularly you can manage projects, files, docs, schedules, tasks, permissions, analytics data, reports, appointments, time logs. The interface is quite simple and makes it easy to quickly navigate between entities in your database.
ERP Customization without Coding and with Support Service
If the basic functionality is not sufficient to meet your business needs, you can customize CentriQS database by adding new entities, properties, tables, workflows. For example, you can add such ERP-related entities as Order, Lead, Quote, Product, Supplier, Inventory, etc. Database customization is quite easy - no coding required!
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You don't have to be a programmer to tailor the database to your special requirements. Even if you need to some help in CentriQS installation, maintenance and customization, you can always request support from CentriQS service teams that will guide you towards best practices of using the software for lean and ERP needs. Besides, at centriqs.biz you can access an extended and constantly updating knowledge base to read tutorials and guides online. |
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