What is Manufacturing ERP?

Most manufacturers start out investing in standalone tools to manage different operations – such as QuickBooks, a CRM tool, or MS Excel spreadsheets. Let’s have a look at the five signs that indicate if your business is ready for a leading-edge manufacturing ERP solution.

1. You’re spending too much time on mundane activities.

Are your employees slowed due to managing major business activities on multiple software applications? ERP integrates operations and data into one system for enhanced communication and greater efficiencies. Its automation and common interface helps to reduce redundancies, eliminate errors, and improve workflow.

2. You have unanswered business questions.

Is it tough for you to answer critical business questions such as revenue per product line or order details? It’s difficult to understand how your enterprise is performing with segregated systems. ERP provides real-time metrics and KPIs so you can easily and quickly achieve business insights.

3. You have difficulty controlling business processes.

Is it challenging for you to manage inventory, retain customers, or reduce operating costs? If so, it may be the result of inefficient business processes. An ERP system will help you gain control over your processes and put best practices in place so you can streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer service.

4. You have departments operating in silos.

When every department uses different software for managing processes, it leads to duplicate data entry and a breakdown in collaboration and communication. With an ERP system, data flows between departments to break down silos, so information only has to be entered once for greater accuracy and better decision-making.

5. You can’t easily identify or act on new opportunities.

When your organizational operations are not optimized, you spend too much time running your business and not enough time looking for new revenue sources. And, having disparate systems can make it challenging to recognize new opportunities or act on them due to inefficiencies. Modern ERP has advanced, intelligent capabilities so you can more easily identify and capitalize on ways to increase income.