ERP is an acronym for the company's resource planning system, and this is a term umbrella for systems that handle core processes such as finance, sales, manufacturing and inventory.
Large ERP system is currently very wide so they can almost handle any process, but still, our customers often choose other systems that they consider more suitable for handling certain processes, although modules are available in their ERP system.
How to choose an ERP system?
Choosing the right ERP system is very important to get a competitive advantage and therefore must be based on a comprehensive analysis of companies combined with great knowledge about the products available on the market.
The freelance experts related to Convista Asia have the important quality of being independent of the commercial interest of what the customer ends up choosing. It sounds obvious that you should not select a vendor with commercial interests for such a task, but we often see vendors handling these projects that either have a strong interest in a certain software being chosen or a strong interest in a high amount of customization to be done.
How to set up a successful ERP implementation?
The ERP system is highly integrated with business processes and therefore implementing an ERP system is a strong disorder in how people do their work.
This is also one of the main reasons why it is difficult to make a successful ERP implementation. The whole change management process is very important. In general, we see that many companies underestimate what is needed from their organizations even though they have bought vendors to provide ERP implementation.
ConVista Asia's freelance model is very suited for providing ERP project managers that can support the customer in ensuring that this is handled well. The ERP project manager then both manages the deliveries of the internal organisation as well as the deliveries of the ERP vendor. In these projects, it is key to have experience with a large amount of similar ERP projects as this makes the project manager capable of proactively handling the key risks of the ERP implementation.
SAP
SAP is a large and very popular ERP system among the largest companies in the world. On the consultant side, we see that consultants and developers are far more specialized than in MS Dynamics World. This means that developers are usually only qualified to handle one or maybe two different modules. Below is a list of core modules in SAP that you need to know:
- FI: Financial Accounting
- PP: Product Planning
- CO: Controlling
- AA: Asset Accounting
- SD: Sales & Distribution
- MM: Material Management
- QM: Quality Management
- PS: Project System
- PM: Plant Maintenance
- HCM: Human Capital Management
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
SAP HANA is an SAP cloud-based solution and we look in general that most of our company customers use SAP have started using the Hana platform to a certain extent.
Cloud-based vs on-premise ERP
All ERP vendors currently have cloud-based solutions, and in general, the market will lead to more cloud-based solutions.
Today, there here is a clear tendency for small and medium-sized companies to go for a cloud-based ERP solution.
Enterprise companies have larger economies of scale in their own IT operation as well as much more complex which makes the choice difficult.
Use standard ERP or customize the solution?
This is a classic debate and requires strong management to adapt organizations with new processes, instead of adapting the system to support the existing process.
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