By eliminating the dangers and inefficiencies of having each department of a business run in its own unique and sometimes ineffective way, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, like the kind provided by industry veteran SMARTer Manager, can bring a level of uniformity and efficiency to a company that ensures profit maximization. Let’s take a look at the dangers that can result from not having a comprehensive and integrated system at work in a business.
First Danger: A Lack of Transparency
Having a top notch ERP system brings a level of transparency to a business that helps it to avoid several common hazards. First, the decision-makers of the company can avoid errors in judgement because they don’t have to dig and piece together information from each department in order to make important decisions. Second, one department can obtain critical information from another department. For instance, a shipping department will be aware of what’s happening in production, or a production department will know what’s happening in receiving.
Second Danger: A Lack of Uniformity
When each department is run like a separate entity, it makes your company less agile. Whenever you need to move someone from one department to another, they have to learn a whole new system. Further, in a uniform system, data only needs to be entered once to be available to the whole enterprise – there are no “islands of information,” either unavailable to other departments or needing to be re-entered into the system over and over.
Third Danger: A Lack of Security
ERP systems eliminate the need for each department in a business to have its own separate security system, and breeches are easier to track. Also, since management has a top down view of what’s happening throughout the company, theft and fraud become much harder to perpetrate.
The benefits of running a company with a uniform and integrated system is almost self-apparent. SMARTer Manager has been so successful for so long because the program helps businesses operate with a cohesiveness that is impossible without an effective ERP system.
