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What misunderstandings do enterprises have about the web version of the ERP system? in view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solutions in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible way.

Will the use of a web version of the ERP system deprive existing people of their jobs?

It is believed that many people who have not really touched the web version of the ERP system for the first time may think that computers can replace the existing manpower, so some employees will worry that their jobs will be replaced by computers, and even some bosses think that importing the web version of the ERP system will save manpower.

But in fact, in the initial stage of introducing ERP, we need to set up some basic data and need a lot of manpower investment. Even after the launch is completed, what happens every day still depends on manual input into the web version of ERP system, and the most important thing is that some judgment work must be done by people. If the computer develops to artificial intelligence mature enough to have the ability to innovate and judge. Then come and worry that work will be replaced by computers.

So the web version of the ERP system is not used to reduce labor costs, but to improve everyone's productivity, while improving the efficiency of employees is not used to lay off staff, but to make the company grow by two times or three times, there is no need to increase manpower to complete more workload and enhance the intensity of management. this is the true meaning of importing the web version of ERP system. Will you save paper if you use the web version of ERP?

When some people publicize the benefits of ERP or computerization, in addition to saying that manpower will be saved, they also say that paper can be saved for environmental protection, etc., but after the actual introduction of ERP, they will find that the amount of paper will increase greatly, because what can really be completely e-changed is usually the company where the office staff is much larger than the production line staff, if not everyone has a computer, e-form is only an ideal. Because the transmission of all kinds of information still depends on the book, with ERP can increase the speed of data processing, improve the efficiency of queries and reports, but still through the type of paper to show the results of statistical analysis, so in fact, the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises ERP import will increase the amount of paper. Your web version of the ERP system is better?

As the saying goes, a penny for a penny is established in most cases. A set of millions of web version of ERP system is of course more powerful than hundreds of thousands of web version of ERP system, and it is far from the system of tens of thousands of yuan. However, after the informationization of large enterprises has been completed, the ERP of large enterprises extends the customer tier down to medium-sized enterprises and adopts the strategy of price reduction, while some medium-sized enterprises are moved after seeing the big price reduction of large-scale ERP, and if the salesman says that they should prepare for the future, they may introduce large-scale systems that exceed the capacity of the enterprise without first making a complete assessment of the company's current situation. It is easy to be in a dilemma when it is found that the import cost required by the large system and the increased manpower burden required by the numerous hurdles of daily operations are difficult to bear.

Just like many men love cars, but not everyone is suitable for buying sports cars or high-end cars, even if they have the opportunity to buy high-end cars cheaply, the subsequent costs may not be affordable to everyone, so choosing a web version of ERP system that is suitable for the development of the next two years will be more appropriate than choosing a set of famous brands or high-priced ERP. Is the tailor-made ERP better than the package?

If today is a large enterprise or a special industry that is not a general trade or manufacturing industry, it is true that most of them will adopt tailor-made information systems, because very few ERP manufacturers will design packages for minority customers. However, most of those who will use the web version of the ERP system are still concentrated in small and medium-sized enterprises, and a considerable proportion of enterprises have ISO certification, while larger enterprises may have plans for listing, and the commonality of ISO and listing and ERP will affect some existing workflows or even add new workflows. If ISO and listing are not taken into account when guiding ERP, we will not find that we have to change the process until we are about to go public. At that time, if you have to change the ERP process and the ISO process to conform to the nine cycles, it will be like making a second ERP import or enterprise transformation.

In general, people who are familiar with ERP may not be familiar with ISO, those who understand ISO may not have experience in listing, and those who will be listed may not understand the functions of ERP, and it is usually more difficult to find people who are familiar with these jobs at the same time than to find a web version of ERP system that conforms to ISO and listing. Therefore, tailor-made is not necessarily worse than the suit. Large enterprises have their own management model, and special industries have too many special needs to meet. Software packages are not necessarily better than custom-made software, which takes time to discuss specifications and write procedures, but also DEBUG, which is often slow or urgent, and the suite system is available at any time, and it is often a collection of the experience of many enterprises, and you can also learn some experience of other people's management when importing ERP, so which one is better or depends on the type of industry, there is no so-called standard answer.

Free ERP is the most cost-effective?

There has long been a free download of ERP software on the network, which seems to be very cost-saving on the surface, but in the import of the whole ERP, the software is only a platform to process materials, but GarbageInGarbageOut, if there is no complete planning and education and training, a set of ERP software may just be a fast garbage maker.

And where is the free lunch in the world? There are no kind-hearted people in the world who are idle enough to write ERP programs for everyone to use, which can be downloaded and used free of charge, but when they encounter problems, they will find that "knowledge has a price". So although there will be a lot of free resources available on the Internet, it is usually limited to sketch programs. Can ERP be online without a consultant?

When some companies adopt ERP, they completely save the cost of consultants in order to save some costs. they may only rely on one or two people in the company who have used ERP instead of ERP consultants to bring ERP online, or to ask some students who have studied ERP at school to help, but it is usually two or three months before they find that the problem is far beyond imagination. Of course, if a very small company uses a very simple system, of course, consultants are not needed, and large companies are full of talents and usually do not care about the fees of these consultants, so this situation is more likely to happen in small enterprises that pay attention to cost, but it should be reminded that unless today's ERP is only used to keep accounts, if there is to be the benefits of material control and cost settlement. It would be more appropriate to have someone with consulting experience to coach online.

ERP is just an upgraded version of MRP?

Usually, if you think that ERP is only an upgraded version of MRP, you may plan with production, sales and storage as the main axis. this is the case with a company that knows a netizen on the Internet recently. The production supervisor leads the ERP, and it is true that the production, marketing and storage is carried out very smoothly, but the financial part is completely independent, and there is no way to connect with the front-end production, sales and storage. As a result, one of the great advantages of the web version of the ERP system, "more than 90% of the subpoenas generated by the system automatically" can not be brought into full play, that is to say, the burden of financial personnel is not reduced but increased because of ERP. And it is also very difficult to settle the cost, because all the documents for production, sale and storage may affect the product cost, if the correct production, sale and storage process is not included in the cost settlement factor at the beginning, wait until everyone has started to find that there is still a lot of information to settle the cost, and this information is actually collected in many daily processes. If it is not included in the process and will eventually be collected by a large number of people at the end of the month, then a web version of ERP system that should produce positive benefits to all departments of the enterprise will become an upgraded version of MRP.

ERP is led by the Finance Department?

Up to now, there are still many companies that bring ERP into the scope of the work of the finance department or set up the information room under the finance department, usually the company ERP prepared in this way is very difficult to implement successfully, because the promotion of ERP is an inter-departmental project. Today, if ERP is led by finance, everything will inevitably take the financial department as the starting point. However, for example, the production department of the manufacturing industry has many work details and workflow that the financial staff can not clearly understand, so can financial-based planning really solve the problems of other departments?

On the other hand, the process planning based on the starting point of the finance department often turns into dividing the work that should be done by the finance department forward to each department. On the surface, the finance department does enjoy the benefits of ERP, but how will other units that should be responsible for the work of the finance department feel? And the most important thing is that if the responsible personnel of the financial department do not have a deep understanding of the details of the work of other departments, they are unable to judge when other departments put forward unreasonable requirements, and they can only ask the information personnel or software companies to modify the system. In the end, they often turn into the front-end staff to hit the web version of the ERP system just to cope with the instructions of their superiors, and they still have an actual account book in their hands. ERP is just for the job of getting the finance department to produce statements, which actually loses the effectiveness that ERP really should have.

Do you need to have an asset management background to manage ERP personnel?

This can be said to be the myth of the most people, always thinking that ERP is a computer system, so people who understand computers very well can manage ERP, but in fact, it is just the opposite, because now ERP has been designed to be very easy to operate and quite stable, as long as the server is not down and the network is stable and make regular backups, in fact, there is not much IT cost among them. The most basic way to manage ERP is to put the organizational structure and work responsibilities of the whole company in mind, and then understand the functions of the system, and then cooperate with the planning of SOP, can you really master and manage ERP. Most of these things are mentioned in the courses of the business management department, but they are rarely mentioned in the courses of the asset management department, so if you only have a background in capital management to manage ERP, it would be better to have more than three or five years of practical experience before you are more suitable for the job of leading ERP.

Can you succeed by applying the successful online mode of other homes?

This is also a point that companies that want to import ERP should pay attention to when recruiting. If they only have the experience of tutoring ERP online once or twice, there is no guarantee that they will be successful in new companies, especially in different industries. Because even the same type of industry will have different corporate culture, as well as different personnel characteristics and organizational structure, it will still cause different problems to be solved when ERP is launched. If you want to apply the previous successful experience to a new company without including the characteristics of the new company, it is easy to encounter some positive or negative resistance everywhere, if you stick to the principle. Unless the boss is very supportive, he will probably back down in the face of difficulties. Therefore, if we want to successfully introduce ERP, we should not only use the past successful experience as the main axis, but also should not forget that we should first have an in-depth understanding of the details of the company, and then take the variables into consideration before making the overall planning, instead of excitedly implementing the past experience from the very beginning, and only when it is found to be infeasible after it has been implemented in various departments. You still have to start all over again in order to really solve the problem.

The ERP function used by small companies can be as cheap and burden-free as porridge dishes, but if the size or characteristics of the company is different, ERP may also become as gorgeous and costly as a full table. How to choose a set of suitable ERP is the first task for all companies that want to import ERP.

The answers to the questions about the misunderstandings of the web version of the ERP system are shared here. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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