What is an ERP?

An ERP is an Enterprise Resource Planning software solution that unifies all of your existing software needs into one powerful piece of software. Basically speaking, it replaces most of the software you now use, and consolidates those functions into one package.

1) The first clue that you need an ERP will often come from your accounting, or book keeping department:

• How many labour hours go into payroll each month; into preparing sales reports; and how long before you have actionable data on last month’s accounts.
• Our accounting software will free up the accounting department to focus less on urgent menial work, and more on important forward thinking issues. With your staff freed up, you can look to the future; expansion can be your new priority.

2) Clear picture of the business as a whole:

• If I were to ask you about your key performance indicators and metrics. Would you be able to get that information easily? And, if I were to ask, are you meeting those standards today, or this week, would you be able to get that information?
• Our book keeping and accounting software will give you easily viewable profit and loss statements, with up to date data. With an ERP, you can view minute by minute purchase and sales figures. No longer will you go weeks or months without realising that you are making a loss, or are ready to expand.

3) Better customer relations:

• Can your sales staff view a customer’s entire purchase history, habits and average spend, while on the phone to that customer? Understanding your customers’ current needs is the basis on which you begin to predict their future needs.
• Can your customer service agents view live data on that customer’s file and tell them up to date information on stock traceability, debit and credit analysis, all without transferring to another department.
  With all drivers able to carry handheld stock managing devices, you will constantly know where your stock is, what will be coming in today, and what has been sold earlier in the day.

4) Do you need any of the following businesss specific modules: Oil, Agriculture, Engineering, Quarry,Distribution and Assembly Manufacturing?

• We, unlike other ERP providers, have specific modules that control ROM1 compliance, batch ordering and tracing, handheld driver interfaces, weighbridge software integration and bill of material stock control.

5) Do all of your systems work together?

• With our unified system, compatibility issues will be a thing of the past. You will no longer find yourself manually transferring data from one system to another.

6) Adaptability:

• No matter the issue, be it a bookkeeping, accounting, stock management, or virtually any other software related issue, we can make a solution specific to your needs. The solution will then fit seamlessly in with all of the other functions of the ERP.

For an impartial analysis of when you need to switch to an ERP, please feel free to go to: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-know-I-need-an-ERP-system