Why Excel is good, but an ERP is better

Despite the now large and veritable range of ERP solutions, still use Excel to analyse data. You also have to pay tribute to the Office solution. It is not only a well-known way of recording - yes, actually everything! In addition, most PCs are equipped with the Office package as standard, which makes the tool very inexpensive. Nevertheless, in the long term - and especially with increasing customer numbers - Excel is not suitable for day-to-day business in a company. Three reasons why it is worth switching from Excel to an ERP system.

Excel provides overviews, ERP automates them

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Excel is good for getting an overview. But only on a small scale. What a company needs is to be able to call up information from an overview at any time when it is needed. Let's take, among other things, the bills write. A process that exists in every company and should run smoothly. However, if every invoice has to be set up again, e.g. the invoice number has to be looked up in the last invoice, this is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors. An ERP system would ensure that the number is always in the right place in the invoice mask and is also transferred correctly - without any manual effort.

Furthermore, the ERP system also takes on much more important tasks, such as the management of open items. Instead of laboriously checking manually which invoice payments have already been received, and Reminders is handled by the software.

Many ERP solutions can now independently access your account statements in online banking. Incoming payments are then allocated to open items, which can then be booked out of the system with a single click. However, if no payment is received on time, you are automatically reminded to send a reminder - with another click

Excel for the individual, ERP for all

Excel documents - in fact any kind of document - tend to disappear into the depths of desktop folders. That's not Excel's fault, it's people's. Because whether at home or at work, we all have our filing systems in which the Documents are usually filed first before they end up in the central filing system. However, it happens in the best companies that the employee responsible for managing a particular document is not in the office when it is needed.

Thanks to an automated filing system, ERP systems make such a process a rarity. All documents can always be found by a document number or are assigned to a customer or supplier. This means that the document can always be found.
Online solutions are ideal for spontaneous access, allowing documents to be retrieved, edited and stored online anytime and anywhere.

3 - Excel is simple, ERP reliable

Perhaps the best thing about Excel is the analysis options. The simplicity of the pivot tables is accessible to everyone and despite a considerable level of performance. But still - the figures must first be copied into the Excel document, in the best case exported.

All figures are already available in ERP solutions and are constantly updated. Data such as sales figures can be easily retrieved with just a few clicks.

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