Issues to consider before implementing ERP software

How does an ERP system work?

Not all ERP projects are successful and achieve the goals required by the Board of Directors. The ERP system needs to connect information throughout, reduce redundant operations, inherited data, shorten the time to check and synthesize data, and optimize the management process based on business information operated on ERP, achieve the goal of instant management reporting, not rely too much on aggregated data from accounting, which delays the decision-making process, etc. However, in order for the ERP system to operate as the needs and goals desired by the Board of Directors, let's review the important issues that need to be considered before implementation, sometimes it will affect the overall success of the ERP project.

01

Need to edit standard ERP system

Although foreign ERP companies are operating according to the world's common standards, with all the steps. However, applying exactly what the ERP standards of the software company provide will not have enough information that the business needs to manage. Therefore, if you force the system to run exactly according to the company's standards, you may not have enough information as desired because what you need is not available in the system, and what the system has is not available to you. Therefore, to be suitable, you should ask yourself whether the system needs to be edited and how much the system needs to be edited and choose the most suitable solution with experience in the industry you are doing business in to save time and cost of editing the system.

02

Ability to integrate and connect data from other systems

Nowadays, following the digitalization trend, businesses have been gradually perfecting their management information systems, so receiving and sending information from systems to each other is completely possible and gradually becoming necessary. For example, exporting and receiving invoice information automatically. So, the question here is whether the integration and connection of your ERP system data can meet the requirements?

03

Some steps should be done inside or outside the ERP system

ERP is a management software system, it will need to be configured and operate according to existing rules and cannot flexibly handle situations like your "omnipotent" employee, so businesses need to consider some steps that can be done outside the ERP system to make things simpler. A tool can support you a lot but can also destroy you if not used properly.

04

Does the ERP system platform ensure scalability?

Now the company may have a scale of 50-100 people, however, in the future the company's scale is split, merged, and grows to 500-1000 people, will the ERP system be able to meet the growth and expansion or changes in the organizational structure of the company? Can the system add management modules without breaking the architecture?

05

ERP system solves important utilities for users

There are items that are important data entry issues, but it takes a lot of time and is difficult for users to enter data into the ERP system. So the question is whether the system can solve the utilities that belong to the core needs for the ERP system to operate. Without input information, the next step cannot run because the information is inherited in ERP.

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Applications that the ERP system is supporting

Currently, information recording for ERP can be done through applications on mobile handheld devices, convenient for counting and recording information quickly and accurately, such as handheld barcode scanners used in production management or in warehouses for importing and exporting goods, etc. Some ERP systems already have suitable applications that will help businesses solve the problem of time and cost if they apply the solution of using barcode scanners or related purchasing and sales applications.

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