ERP Application

Enterprise Solutions helps you address your fundamental business and process management challenges and then enables those improvement programs with technology. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization-embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application. The purpose of ERP is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.

In order to optimize core business functions and processes like CRM, KM, SCM, and general enterprise-wide resource management-you've got to consider the potential impact of technology. We'll work with you to address the business issues and improve processes, organization and functions and then enable those improvements through the effective and efficient application of technology. Successful implementation of enterprise solutions makes your company - "Real-Time Enterprise".

Implementing an ERP software system not only involves a great deal of expenditure, efforts and time, it also involves change in some of the complex business processes. Such changes are often disliked by the employees and are a big risk. In order to ensure success, everyone in the company, from the leadership to back-office workers should cooperate. Implementing ERP requires a team of experts who understand the business and technical aspects of the project. A separate ERP solution provider is employed for working with each department in understanding their processes and challenges.

Implementation of ERP involves the following steps:

Planning and Requirements Analysis

This is the initial phase where the company takes a decision on implementing ERP. The decision could based on their need to comply with legal requirements, replace their legacy applications, for benefits of integration, reduction of inventory, reduction of operational costs, risk management, additional functionality or speeding up processes.

Design

This is the phase where the ERP team re-engineers the business processes around the Best Practices wherever feasible and identifies the processes that will result in customizing the ERP software application. The IT infrastructure requirements based on ERP system architecture and vendor are prepared.

Detailed Design

In this phase, the ERP team uses the identified business processes as the basis for implementation to build prototypes by choosing standard models, processes, inputs and outputs. This phase involves business super-users in determining the system elements.

Implementation

This phase involves installation of the ERP software, migration of data from the old applications to the ERP system, configuring the ERP system for reporting, implementing security, interfaces etc. The end users are involved at this stage to test the system after being trained. The implementation consultants seek feedback, identify software bugs/corrections, performance bottlenecks and apply the fixes. A decision on switching to the new ERP system is taken.

Maintenance

This is an ongoing phase which involves patching/upgrading the software, enhancing the functionality of the applications, changes in reports etc.