What are the benefits of integrating your business software?
In the beginning many companies, and in this case engineering and manufacturing companies, start their lives with different sets of business software to manage each aspect of their business. The accounts package, office productivity applications, email, CRM/Sales, databases and spreadsheets are the staple diet of these enterprises.
In the beginning, these different systems function perfectly adequately.
Then their enterprise begins to grow, the jobs become bigger, the business increases, the figures double and this begins to cause the different systems to labour.
The process of looking at integrating the separate software into one system as a whole is the solution.
What are the benefits of integrating your business software?
This change can be difficult.
People are creatures of habit, but people are also forward thinking.
The decision makers also knows that new business has to be won, the work estimated and planned and that there is adequate provisioning for both capital and labour. This requires improving management information and reducing the amount of paperwork involved in handling everything from job costing, estimates and quotations to resource control and cost management.
Your engineering company, for example, needs business specific components like job costing, WIP and time tracking merged together with your financial and sales management, creating a cohesive, cost effective system that allows you streamline your operations and give a unified view of your vital business information across your organization.
It can be hard to convince others the benefits of adopting a new approach.
This is where good leadership and management comes into play.
To break with old habits, the staff must see the benefit of how all these processes seamlessly integrate into one fully functioning financial, management and operation system.
Planning for the company’s future and growing your business is very difficult to do when your software fails to interact.
An Enterprise resource planning (ERP), according to Wikipedia definition is a business management software—usually a suite of integrated applications—that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities.
Planning for the company’s future and growing your business can now become a lot easier
Companies all over the country have used Herbst Insight, our software partner, to grow their business. If you would like to find out more about an integrated business management software solution, can help your business then contact us here at Hybrid TP on 061-211444 or 1800-911 000.
If you want to learn more about ERP systems and their applications, look at our guide on ERP systems and benefits
Stephen Hughes
