ERP Solutions in Market

1. Presented by: Ashok Kumar
ERP – An Overview on
Solutions
Nov, 20th , 2020

2. Lets start with Simple Quiz

3. Table of Content
1.What, Why….
2.Popular ERP Products in Market
3.Core Modules Business Process FLows
4.Popular skill sets in ERP Practice

4. ERP stands for enterprise resource planning, but what does ERP mean?
What is ERP?
The simplest way to define ERP is “An integrated s/w system for all the core processes needed to run
an establishment : Core Processes - Finance, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, services,
procurement, and others”.
At its most basic level, ERP integrates these processes into a single system. i.e.
You make a transaction / entry at one place and the desired effect is seen real
time at all modules.

5. Pre ERP Times - Business w/o ERP

6. Pre ERP Times - Business w/o ERP .. Cont..

7. Business w/o ERP Cont.. .. Additional Processes

8. Pre ERP Times - Business w/o ERP .. End Result

9. Business w/o ERP Cont.. Impact on Business Relationship

10. Optimal Communication Between Various Processes – Gives Birth of ERP

12. Why ERP is so Popular? Top ERP’s 2018 No.’s

13. By integrating the business processes, the ERP offers the following advantages −
•Saves time and expenses.
•Allows faster decision-making by the management, utilizing the data and reporting tools
designed in the systems.
•Single data source and sharing of data among all the units of an organization.
•Helps in tracking every transaction that takes place in an organization, from starting till end.
•Supplies real-time information whenever required.
•Provides synchronized information transfer in between different functional areas such as
sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, human resource, logistics, etc.
Advantages of ERP

14. Disadvantages of ERP
It is not always easy to incorporate ERP in an organization. ERP suffers from
the following drawbacks −
•Sometimes business processes critical to an organization are to be re-
engineered to align them with an ERP solution.
•Cost of complex integration can be very high.
•Switching from one ERP solution to another increases the implementation cost
even further.
•End-users are to be trained for their daily operations.
•Customization is not preferred

15. Popular ERP Products in Market

16. ERP - Popular Products and Modules

17. OPEN SOURCE / Free ERP’s in Market

18. High Level Process Flows of Modules

19. Finance (FI) - General Ledger Process Flow

20. Finance (FI) - Account Receivable Flow

21. Finance (FI) - Manual Check Deposit Flow

22. Finance (FI) - ASSET Processing…

23. Finance (FI) - ASSET Processing

24. Controlling (CO) Process

25. Finance (FI) - Profitability Management

26. Material Management (MM) - Business Process Flow

27. Logistics Execution (LE) / Supply Chain (SCM)

28. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

29. HR – PAYROLL…

30. HR – PAYROLL

31. Integrated Flow between Various Modules

32. Skill Sets in ERP Practice
S. No Skill Set ODOO Oracle SAP Billing
Factor
1. Functional Consultant Cross Functional
Popular
Cross Functional
Popular
Cross
Functional
Not so popular
1.2
2. Technical
(Programmer)
Multiple
technologies
1.0
3. Techno Functional Popular Popular Popular 1.5
4. Administrator / DBA 1.2

33. Soft skills of an ERP Functional Consultants
Think Like a Customer
Start your discussions as if you have handled these
kind of processes by yourself
Do your homework – Learn as much as possible about
the core business of the customer
Do your homework – Get to know about the
competitors of your customer
Keep a Dairy with you to note all standard solutions found

34. Value Add Skills of an ERP Technical Consultants
Road to Techno Functional – Don’t Rush for Customization
Road to Techno Functional – Achieve Functional Testing
Skills of your developed Program
Hide Code Break – At no point System Message to appear on
Error (Centralized Error Handling)
Keep enhancing your control on ERP’s Core Structure /
Database structure (Dairy Habit)

35. Thanks