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GROWING PAINS | The Tell-Tale Signs You've Outgrown Your ERP

The moment you officially outgrow your ERP can be shrouded in ambiguity. Systems typically evolve alongside your business, progressing at the same rate of growth and change, until you reach a pivotal point. Understanding the lifecycle of your business and how it affects your vital business solutions is essential to reaching and achieving your next level of success.

 

Often, business leaders are too close to the situation to recognize the process issues mounting internally. To further aid in determining if your organization has developed past your current ERP system, we have identified the six tell-tale signs that indicate it's time to begin evaluating a new solution.

 

1.  Multiple databases and systems are in place and vital to your daily operations.
It can be as simple as counting the number of logins you use on a daily basis. If there are more than three, it is likely that your system has evolved with many "integrated" solutions. This model creates a number of issues for an organization, such as duplicate data entry, additional cost to maintain integration points, lack of real-time visibility, and manual entry, ultimately equating to unnecessary costs and lost productivity to your organization.

 

2.  Essential processes are managed outside of your system.
This is a signal that the solution does not meet your business' basic requirements. It is not uncommon to see the use of spreadsheets across an organization, and while that alone does not necessarily signify that you've outgrown your solution, if entire business processes are being driven outside the system, it is a red flag. If you are managing quality processes, month-end reporting, inventory replenishment, or quoting externally, the time has come to re-evaluate your business needs.

 

3.  You have a national forest stored in your filing cabinets.
Not only does this showcase your heavy reliance on manual processes, but it also indicates operational inefficiency and wasteful spending. Depending on your organizational structure, transferring paper to facilitate a business process - like approvals, for example - can result in time delays, additional shipping costs, and mounting redundancies.

 

 
CLICK HERE to read the final three signs
that you have outgrown your ERP
and what to do about it.

_________________________________________ 

 

AMY KNUST

Technology Business Advisor

Eide Bailly Technology Consulting

 

aknust@eidebailly.com

 

 
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