This document discusses how an ERP system can help entrepreneurs address common business problems and achieve their goals. It outlines issues entrepreneurs face like attrition, low profits, cash flow and inventory issues. The entrepreneur's basic desires are to grow their business and increase sales and profits. An ERP can help standardize work, increase transparency, and make the business more self-running with less intervention. An ERP integrated with a quality management system can easily implement, sustain and improve processes. An ERP can increase sales and profits by improving monitoring, reducing production time, and enhancing abilities. It can make the business easier and more enjoyable to run.

1. Some Common Problems faced by
an Entrepreneur
Attrition by itself and its related problems
Low Profits in business
Cash Flow
Capacity Utilization
Imbalance in Inventory
Rejection and Material Losses
Low Machine Utilization
Low Productivity

2. The Basic desire of an Entrepreneur
To make his business grow (and sustain)
To Increase the Top Line (Sales)
To Increase the Bottom Line (Profits)

3. The additional desire of an
Entrepreneur
Business should also be easy and fun

4. He needs
To standardize his work...
To make it transparent,
With better monitoring and controls,
Self running and needing minimum interventions

5. What are QMS ??
Quality Management Systems like ISO 9001,
TS 16949 etc....
These systems if supported by an ERP which
is actually a Business Management System are
easy to implement, sustain and improve.

6. Can an ERP improve my Top
Line ?
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Yes ! An ERP can increase your sales....
by improving your monitoring of Sales, Deliveries, Orders, Inquiries, Customer
Satisfaction, Costing and Competitiveness
by reducing your production time, development time
by enhancing your personal abilities,by giving you more time to think and to
relax.

7. Can ERP improve my Bottom Line ?
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Yes ! An ERP can increase your Profits....
by improving your Production Efficiencies
by reducing your Rejections and wastages
by reducing your cost of production as well as cost of Poor Quality.
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It can reduce your Financial costs by reducing your Variable Assets:
Reduction in Inventories ( improve ITR)
Improvement in Cash Collection from the Customers

8. Can ERP also make it Easy n Fun ?
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Yes ! An ERP will do all that....
it brings order to
Man, Machine ( including Maintenance), Materials and Money by establishing
Methods for them all.

9. How...
Man
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, Machine ( including Maintenance), Materials and Money by establishing
Methods for them all.

10. As Is
1.Customer sends an urgent order for
Item: ABC . Qty : 100 nos
2. You check up with Finished Stores if the item
and qty required is available
3. If not Available, you check up with Assembly
if they can make.
4. Assembly checks up with Central Stores if the
required child parts are available.
5. If some parts are not available,Stores checks
up with down line Production shop if they can
make and also checks up with Purchase if
any of the required parts are somewhere in
transit.
To Be
1.Customer sends an urgent order for
Item: ABC . Qty : 100 nos
2.Your ERP checks up the Finished
Stock, checks up WIP in Assembly,
checks for the required child parts
and their availability, checks the
Raw Materials required and their
availability.Checks up the entire
supply chain in QA, inwards,
production shops , Pending
Purchase orders, rework etc.
It also checks up other pending
orders of other customers for the
same item
And in a few seconds tells you as to
when and how much qty you can
send to the customer.