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How can an ERP help you manage your business?
What is an ERP?
An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or PGI (Integrated Management Software) is an essential tool that allows you to have a global vision of your activities. It is an information system for managing and tracking all of a company's strategic and operational information and services. With an ERP, all the key processes needed to manage a company such as finance, HR, production, supply chain, purchasing or services are managed effectively. The latter makes it possible to centralize a company's data and to draw from it from the analyses that will guide the business and management in their processes and their decision-making.
ERP systems in Saas mode can be integrated with all the business tools of a company (CRM, e-commerce platform ...). These integrations are possible thanks to APIs they are application programming interfaces. They make it possible to "connect" a software or a service to another software in order to gather all the data of a company. The interconnection between applications is based on APIs.
What are the advantages of ERP?
The use of an ERP implies many advantages, and this, at different scales:
- For the leaders:
ERP is the software that is at the heart of companies. At any time, it allows to have a clear vision regarding the operations carried out on a daily basis. For example, it is possible to control all data from the purchase of a company's raw materials to the customer's billing when it proceeds to the final purchase. But it does not stop there, it is also possible to control everything related to the choice of suppliers, the storage of products or their distribution. Thus, leaders can identify the most successful processes and those that need improvements. Decisions are made faster and therefore the growth of companies too. Some go so far as to say that ERP is “the central nervous system of a company.”
- Within the trades:
Whether in the field of human resources, accounting, finance or production, ERP is a solution for each business to streamline its processes and maximize its performance.
- For the operational:
At the operational level, the ERP provides the possibility to automate many tasks, including billing, sales, inventory, procurement or reporting. A considerable time saving within a company more specifically between employees.
- For companies:
Using an ERP system in SaaS mode allows you not to have to take care of the maintenance or hosting that is directly on the cloud. In addition to saving time, the cloud offers more security and functionality for businesses. The updated part is simplified, when there are new features or services, users have direct access to it.
