Marketing, Production and Engineering, to go ERP way in the End.
Old organizations which are rich in their own culture find the progression to complete ERP solution quite difficult. What all major ERP solution is that these organizations should shun their age old rich procedures and systems and adapt to the so called “Best Practices”. But is it the right strategy? I have been confronted with this question at many forums and have always found myself at some sort of dilemma.
No doubt ERP solution bring with them best practices and a good control over any organization for management. But what has been the common refrain of all these organizations is that in the process of moving towards complete ERP solution, organization loses their intrinsic values and belief which they have cultured and nurtured over so many years. My experience in the corporate world suggests that ERP solution should be first implemented in the support functions like HR, Payroll, Finance, Logistics, Sales and Distribution etc. The main functions like Marketing, Production and Engineering should be the last phases in any organization which should go the ERP way and preferably in that order.
The support functions in all organizations are more or less same so transgression to respective ERP modules is much easier and less cumbersome. But Marketing, Production and Engineering are three modules which describes the core of any organization. To preserve its intrinsic systems, organizations should necessarily go in for these areas in the last lap or ERP solution implementation.
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