Enterprise resource planning plays an important role in the organization. Nowadays, with the fast developing of industries, technologies and the need for managing business processes and resources, it has become vital to have an ERP system which can help you coordinate and control several activities. There are many advantages of having ERP system. It gives you the opportunity of integrating all processes of your business while improving the quality of several areas and reducing the cycle time simultaneously. It helps to increase your production levels, WIP control, proper utilization of resources and control your costs more efficiently. After integrated software system in place you will be able to control the whole organization more efficiently.Important features of the ERP systems are that they increase the availability of the information, reduce paper work, control inventory in a better way, helping companies to have information in real time to make decisions on information based and accurate prognostics regarding the organization. It is very important to mention that software system is a very powerful tool when it comes to processing and organizing financial data and any other data. It improves the development of the business process of all the departments in the short and long term.
In the MIS (management information system) module you can perform integral strategic planning, gives bird’s eye view of the organization processes, top customers, top suppliers, cash in hand, cash in bank, daily activities, and having fluent communication with the investors. The HRM (human resource management) module allows you to make decisions and helps to optimize the company’s resources properly regarding employees. You might find that implementing an ERP system could be expensive and time taking and generates deep changes in business processes, but when you start getting ROIs on this you will be happy. The benefits of ERP are bigger than the cost invested in software system.