Build on Your Existing ERP Software or Start Over?

A decision many businesses face today is whether to salvage existing ERP software, or start fresh and build an accounting solution from the ground up. In order to answer that for your company, you need to ask yourself:

• What level of integration do you need? The larger the organization, the more challenging it is to connect systems, processes and people. Rapid growth or a business acquisition can transform a midsize organization into a large organization overnight. Without effective connectivity across departments, efficient work processes are compromised. Poorly integrated business processes and limited visibility into workflow are not only costly, but they have a considerable negative impact on organizational agility and competitiveness.
• Is your ERP solution delivering what you need? Most businesses already have an integrated ERP solution, but many times they are monolithic and proprietary (non-standards based), and difficult to customize or add new functionality to in response to changing business needs. Are you often exporting information and manipulating data in Excel? Does your system generate the reports you need?
• Does your current system align well with your procedures? Efficiency in your business can be accomplished by standardizing processes across your organization. Yet despite this, many companies maintain decentralized practices for one compelling reason – different needs across an organization are often better supported by local adaptation rather than central standardization. If your ERP system is not flexible, the net result is a system intended to be centralized instead is deployed in a decentralized fashion, reducing the level of integration and increasing costs, precisely what ERP systems were designed to control.

Upgrading to an agile ERP solution such as Microsoft Dynamics GP can give your organization the tools you need to run your facility with the greatest efficiency and insight. It can sharply reduce the time and effort for key accounting tasks, provide easy access and analysis of integrated, updated information, and connect smoothly with operations across your entire organization.

 By Intellitec Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner serving Pennsylvania

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