Are Business pains good for ERP? How to Deal with it?
Every SMB and enterprise will focus on skipping or reducing the risks in their business process. To get out of the pains in the business, one should analyze and find the root cause. Without weeding out the main reason for any problems, you will get temporary relief only. But, it leads to spending more on fixing the problems later.
How to address business pain with the full potential of your existing ERP?
#1 – Follow an approach that solves the ERP problem
Many organizations fail as they do not effectively perform this problem-solving process. Also, many ERP customers have misconceptions that having an ERP system will ease their problem-solving process.
Common misconceptions of ERP customers and its Pain points
- Thinking Pains in business is bad.
- Missing the chance to enhance the existing ERP system
- Temporarily fix business problems than spend time on permanent solutions.
- Spend more later to fix it
- Do more customizations to fix it quickly.
- ERP becomes less flexible and costs you more.
- Do band-aid fixes over the another.
- Results in a catastrophic event.
- Do Not view the impacts of the pain in the long run.
- Reduce productivity, ROI, etc
#2 – Believe business pains as a chance for ERP enhancement
When a production server is not working, a quick fix is acceptable. When it comes to ERP support problems, you must view them as an opportunity rather than a problem. Never urge fixing the issue and move on to the next problem. Fix the problem with confidence that it will not occur again, and spend time reviewing the possibilities for making the ERP valuable.
#3 – Business pains – A helper in increasing the value of ERP
An ERP consultant’s key challenge is to get added value from their ERP investment. The top three strategies of an ERP consultant that support long-term, rapid delivery from ERP are
- Frequent ERP upgrades
- Limited customizations
- Lead without Of The Box
Unexpected costs to incur on ERP quick fixes
Short-term fixes will limit your ERP strategy. Doing quick fixes in ERP is nothing but implementing customizations. Professional customer support is needed because most ERP vendors do not support retaining the customizations when upgrading the version or migrating to a new ERP. You have to spend more time and money on support activities than enhancements. Quick fixes in ERP seem affordable, but they will impact the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
What Next?
Business pains show you the gap between where you are now and where you have to be. Are you running a heavily customized Compiere ERP and looking for an alternate ERP-based software developed like Compiere? You are making a big mistake. You have to upgrade your Compiere ERP to the latest version to reap the full benefits of Compiere ERP.
Transform your business pains into opportunities
We, at TenthPlanet, provide Compiere ERP upgrade and support services. Our Compiere ERP experts will find all your pain points, analyze viable solutions that fix them long-term and apply them in your ERP without any Downtime.
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