Have you found the best application to automate your business systems, area-by-area, company wide? Is manufacturing output effectively linked to current demand-as well as your sales initiatives? Are your suppliers reliably providing materials so you can efficiently provide product to your customers? Are payables outpacing receivables? Can the CEO get a "snapshot" of key performance indicators on a moment's notice? Fortunately, you need only

one tool to help answer all these questions-The Next Enterprise Business System.

ERP Software will save you time and money because:

It is truly integrated, thereby eliminating the need to enter the same data into different modules. It is fully accessible using internet connectivity It automates key processes, including Material Planning, ensuring more timely purchasing and therefore customer service. It will improve customer service levels by allowing the tracking of customer problems and issues. Also the customer has the ability, using our new CRM module, to report problems directly (using Internet) , dialogue with the Customer Support Representative and access status and supplier actions. Your staff can access the data directly to quickly analyse and report on unique situations. It is user friendly and flexible, allowing the operator to quickly correct errors as well as quickly locating coded data using search lists.

Benefits

1. Integrate customer order information - ERP systems can become the place where the customer order lives from the time a customer service representative receives it until the loading dock ships the merchandise and finance sends an invoice. By having this information in one software system, rather than scattered among many different systems that can't communicate with one another, companies can keep track of orders more easily, and coordinate manufacturing, inventory and shipping among many different locations at the same time.

2. Standardize and speed up manufacturing processes - Manufacturing companies-especially those with an appetite for mergers and acquisitions-often find that multiple business units across the company make the same widget using different methods and computer systems. ERP systems come with standard methods for automating some of the steps of a manufacturing process. Standardizing those processes and using a single, integrated computer system can save time, increase productivity and reduce head count.

3. Reduce inventory - ERP helps the manufacturing process flow more smoothly, and it improves visibility of the order fulfillment process inside the company. That can lead to reduced inventories of the stuff used to make products (work-in-progress inventory), and it can help users better plan deliveries to customers, reducing the finished good inventory at the warehouses and shipping docks. To really improve the flow of your supply chain, you need supply chain software, but ERP helps too.

4. Standardize HR information - Especially in companies with multiple business units, HR may not have a unified, simple method for tracking employees' time and communicating with them about benefits and services. ERP can fix that. In the race to fix these problems, companies often lose sight of the fact that ERP packages are nothing more than generic representations of the ways a typical company does business. While most packages are exhaustively comprehensive, each industry has its quirks that make it unique. Most ERP systems were designed to be used by discrete manufacturing companies (that make physical things that can be counted), which immediately left all the process manufacturers (oil, chemical and utility companies that measure their products by flow rather than individual units) out in the cold. Each of these industries has struggled with the different ERP vendors to modify core ERP programs to their needs.