What is ERP software and how can it benefit your business?

Your ERP systems guide

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a term applied to integrated software systems used to manage the internal and external resources of an organization. These include the physical assets, financial resources, materials and human resources (or staff).

An ERP system facilitates the flow of information between all business functions inside the organization and links to outside stakeholders such as customer and supplier systems. The key objective of implementing an ERP system is to bring together the disparate functions of the organization into a single system environment and therefore make the operations run more efficiently.

Benefits of ERP

Implementing a good ERP application will deliver key benefits including:

• integrated business processes
• one central database with no duplication of data
• a single ‘view of the truth’
• easy-to-use, powerful reporting across the whole suite (and therefore the whole organization)
• the same look-and-feel across the whole system, making training and using the ERP very straightforward.

Drawbacks with ERP

Buying and implementing ERP can be expensive and time consuming, with many high profile examples of issues with projects going significantly over time or budget, or both. The largest players in the market have developed a reputation for needing huge resources including external consultants to implement an ERP system and get it working, not to mention the cost of making changes to the system or simply maintaining it.

A new generation of ERP

However, not all ERP systems are the same. Agresso Business World is an example of a new approach to ERP, with a focus on keeping costs low, improving efficiency and enabling organisations to make changes to the system when changes in their organization or the way they do business require it. The Agresso system has been shown to be much easier to make changes to after it has been implemented (so called ‘post-implementation agility), and users are given the skills to maintain the system and make changes themselves.

Agresso Implementation Methodology (AIM)

AIM covers the entire implementation life cycle from system selection through to sign-off.  Our ERP system implementation methodology is designed for business living in change, we work with our customers to understand and meet their requirements. 

During the ERP system implementation process we guide and train our customers to give them the knowledge they need to feel confident with their new system.  The more a customer knows about their systems the less likely they are to suffer the problems which can plague ERP implementations

To find out more about the Agresso ERP system please complete our short information request form opposite and we will be in touch to discuss your requirements and answer your questions.

 Further Information

 Want to know more about selecting and implementing ERP software? why not:

• read our top tips for choosing an ERP system for your business.
• learn about the cost of change in ERP and get your free copy of the CFO research report
• or contact us and we'll put you in touch with our nearest team