If you are going to set up a company that sells physical products, whether you manufacture them yourself, or if you are a distributor, and you are going to have to manage warehouses and transporters, you are interested in thinking of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), the acronym for business resource planning software.
You will need to control the stock of the product (and you may have to deal with different units of measurement), batches and serial numbers, warehouse management, Enterprise Mobility Management, repository control, product traceability, physical inventories, and planning. You will need a follow-up of innings and exits, perhaps of expirations. You will have to be in contact with suppliers of products - or raw materials - and with carriers.
Why? This is because you will need effective purchasing and supplier management along with payment terms and procurement management to monitor your margin. Though, it is only to reduce the costs of stock and distribution, which is already a compelling argument.
What are your operations?
"Before considering the software you have the obligation to identify your operations on paper. We think you have to look for two things: technology and functionality. You have to look for the functionality that is capable of covering what you need to cover at an operational level.
What does 'operational control' mean? If you set up a wholesale fruit business, an operational control helps you to make good purchasing Enterprise Mobility Management, to keep good store control; to carry a reasonable distribution system, to help me take the product to my clients; have a practical billing system. It is everything that has to do with the muscle of the business, with the operations carried out by any wholesaler in this example: buy and sell, "says Best web Development Company.
Which product fits you?
"I would go to the market; I would look for 4-5 products and compare them. I would decide based on my operational needs. If I had a business idea to make it grow, I would also think of a growth-oriented Enterprise Mobility Solutions. When you see the solution that you like the most, you should evaluate whether to buy or cloud. One thing is not better than the other. It has to do with the characteristics of each one. You can access high-end solutions -effective- that are not expensive, "suggests the Best web development company.
And how do you measure, I do not know ..., a programmer?
This is fine for physical product companies, but what about Enterprise Mobility Services companies? "They only have one asset: time. And there it is difficult to measure results ... First, you have to measure efforts. The effort itself is easy to measure: How much have we tried to reach where we have arrived?
How do you measure a programmer? For the lines of code? Has no sense. What can be measured is the time spent developing this; time spent on this other ... which may have taken less time, well. Now you know how long it takes you. If later you see that it can be done faster, there is learning. For that, it is measured: to improve the learning curve. If not, what else does it give you to know that it has taken 250 or 300 hours? ", Points out a consultant.
What do entrepreneurs use?
It will depend a lot on the size of your project. For small projects you can start by evaluating offers in the Billage cloud (24 Dollars/month, including CRM), Anfix FacturaPro Comercios (29.90 Dollars/month) and STEL Order (21.78 Dollars/month if you contract the annual plan; includes CRM). For larger projects, you are interested in other types of products in the cloud such as Sage Murano ERP online or Openbravo ERP Professional, or in the style of Datisa sector Enterprise Mobility Solutions or more generic packages such as A3 ERP Plus (Wolters Kluwer) this for product companies. For Enterprise Mobility Services companies Anfix FacturaPro Services (19.90 Dollars/month) or productivity utilities such as Harvest (from 49 Dollars per month).
The minimum you need
According to the experts that we have consulted, this minimum viable software should have: product categories, tariffs, materials for the creation of products, product cards (type of product, characteristics, product image), products in stock, number for traceability, supplier cards according to the product, with tariffs (prices, applicable price, limit price), transport records (transport categories and carrier registration), substitute product cards, customer registration, suppliers, employees, with addresses (billing, delivery, social address), also payment methods and conditions with customers and suppliers, billing schedules, and buy and sell rappels. And if you are going to have your own warehouse and stock, what do you need to monitor the application you work with? Stock control (units of measurement),
Customization of the ERP
Customization, also called personalization, is one of the topics that generate the most controversy around ERP software. During the evaluation and selection process, most of the companies intend to implement the standard version. However, when the project team deepens the details during the implementation cycle, the requirements to carry out one or more customizations are unavoidable.
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The reason for the controversy surrounding personalization is threefold:
• It increases the complexity and the risk of an application, while at the same time, which makes it harder to update software in the future.
• It undermines the ways in which some of the practices are integrated into the software and for which the providers invest significant funds.
• Personalization is often a symptom of larger problems, including a mismatch of a solution with the requirements of a company or a lack of control that falls into the execution of the project.