When it's time for a change!

Once a company has implemented an ERP solution, this is not the end of the story. Because even a successfully completed ERP project does not guarantee the long-term success of a system. At some point, it will be time for a extensionERP replacement.

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ERP replacement or is an extension sufficient?

Companies will grow and processes will change. You and your employees should keep an eye on this development at all times, because managing your company with a good ERP software, this becomes the most important basis of your management.

To your today Pursue To secure the future, it is first and foremost important to maintain competitiveness. To ensure this, it is necessary to keep an eye on the development of all figures and data. A good ERP solution offers sufficient options for analysis and evaluation.

However, at some point they show that the implemented processes If your company no longer has the efficiency it needs to stay healthy on the market, it's time to upgrade. But how can you recognise them?

When the function is no longer sufficient

One indication would be, for example, that the functions in your system are often no longer sufficient to cover all areas of a workflow. Here you can ask your employees whether they have the impression that the usability are still sufficiently efficient for your tasks. For ERP solutions such as SAP Business One, there are still numerous options for supplementing processes with add-ons and thus bringing them up to date.

Signs of an ERP replacement

It is also a clear sign if operating costs are constantly rising because your ERP provider is unable to provide support for the software because it is so outdated. You should start looking for a new system soon instead of switching to lots of small isolated solutions. After all, the idea of an ERP system is exactly the opposite: to standardise processes. Even if these "interim solutions" initially appear to be a good alternative, they will cause exactly what the purchase of an ERP system was intended to prevent: confusing data records, redundancy, risk of errors and inefficiency in individual work steps.

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