Over the last decade, the innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model has evolved to let manufacturers move beyond traditional enterprise software.It’s a game-changing approach that lets the enterprise avoid costly licenses and complex hardware and software infrastructures.
In the business world, customers are faced with an overabundance of enterprise software choices. The selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is a critical decision that could provide numerous benefits or be less than an optimal selection. As ERP sales professionals, it is our job to offer potential customers the expert guidance needed to ensure that the right ERP solution is determined and selected based on the client’s needs.
Today’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are challenged to provide the architectural agility necessary to support businesses in a high-change, global environment (e.g., to accommodate merger and acquisition [M&A] activity, new financial or regulatory requirements, organizational restructuring, or new business processes). A recent IDC survey shows that the negative impact of business disruptions attached to ERP modifications is simply too high: a 20.9% decline in stock price, a 14.3% revenue loss due to delayed product launches, and a 16.6% decline in customer satisfaction.
By implementing VAI’s S2K for Distribution, Smith Drug Company enhanced existing, and acquired new and valuable technological capabilities. Due to S2K’s user-friendly interface, employees can quickly create reports and retrieve customer and order information. As a result, calls to Smith Drug Company’s IT department dropped 75 to 80 percent, noted Isaac Rogers, Vice President of Operations. This allows personnel to make better use of time, focusing on exceptional customer service and accurate inventory management.
With a number of software packages, management of customer account is not particularly simple. For a simple process, QuickBooks makes searching databases and finding customer information quick and easy, allowing the micromanagement of customer accounts among many account managers.
Entry level Accounting products such as MYOB and Quickbooks are great for businesses of a certain size – and up to a point. When a business is growing, adding employees, increasing the number of transactions they process and is becoming more complex, it needs a more robust business system.
Entry-level software such as MYOB and Quickbooks has done wonders for small businesses. These small business accounting systems let SMBs perform quickly what was previously a full time bookkeeping and accounting role. While they are great for start-ups and very small businesses, companies that want to move to the next level must have software in place to support, not hinder, intended growth.
Databases are significantly more powerful than spreadsheets in the way they are able to process or ‘manipulate’ data. Actions that would be extremely difficult or impossible in a spreadsheet are easily achievable in a database.
ERP vendors expect their customers to negotiate for the best ERP deal. Keeping that in mind, chances are the price that the sales rep quotes you will probably be the straight from their price book and be marked up considerably.
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