Panorama’s ERP Blog
Digital Transformation & ERP Best Practices
Need some quick tips for your digital transformation or ERP implementation? You’re in the right place.
Lord Knows I Can’t Change: What’s Your Organizational Change Management Plan?
Lynyrd Skynyrd once said that free birds can't change. Most companies employ people that have worked for some time to learn the organization's culture, business processes, and way of doing things. Hopefully you have talented and capable people ensuring that your...
SAP Implementation Gone Bad: Learning From the Mistakes of Others
Tier I ERP systems are generally more robust, complex, and as a result, more difficult to implement than Tier II counterparts. SAP implementations, in particular, get a bad rap because of the large, high-visibility companies that have tried and failed to implement...
Five Benefits of Six Sigma During an ERP Implementation
Six sigma initiatives and ERP systems have both been around for a long time. Companies like Motorola and GE made six sigma part of the business mainstream in the '80s, while Baan made ERP software equally important at the corporate level in the '90s. A lot has changed...
Five Mistakes That Will Make Your ERP Implementation Feel Like a Bad Horror Movie
I'm a big fan of horror movies, and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It's the time of year where many of us (or our kids) dress up like scary characters and watch scary movies. As much as I love Halloween, slasher movies, and a good scary mask in my spare...
ERP Boot Camp: Arm Yourself, Prepare for Battle, and Make Your ERP Implementation Project Successful
Embarking on an ERP implementation can feel like going to battle: the process can be grueling and time consuming, money and jobs are at stake, and the odds are stacked against you. In months past I've blogged a lot about ERP failures and we have heard a great deal in...
The Great Mystery of the ERP 10-Year Itch: Why Businesses Can’t Seem to Stick with Their ERP Software for More Than 10 Years
When CIOs and CFOs invest in their new ERP software, they expect a long and happy relationship with the new software. Like most capital investments, they typically expect the investment to last ten or more years. Ten years is a good deal of time and generally long...
Panorama’s ERP Blog
Welcome to the ERP Blog from Panorama Consulting, your central source for cutting-edge information and insight in the enterprise resource planning industry.
Digital Transformation and ERP Best Practices
Are you in the market for some quick tips to expedite your digital transformation or ERP implementation? Then you’ve come to the right place. As leaders in ERP consulting, Panorama is excited to provide valuable details about digital transformation and ERP best practices to those looking to expand their understanding of these vital practices and put them to use.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a huge concept that essentially boils down to software that manages some of the most important day-to-day operations of businesses, such as accounting, project management, and procurement. What makes ERP so valuable is the fact that it facilitates a flow of information between these different processes and departments for a level of consistency that would not otherwise be possible. The result is an organization whose functions are more streamlined due to the use of a central database; employees from entirely different areas of a corporation can trust that they’re relying upon the same information and following the same practices when ERP is utilized.
There are many benefits for businesses that utilize ERP, including decreased costs of operation, boosted insights, greater efficiency, and an overarching sense of collaboration which serves to improve morale and company culture, so it’s no wonder that so many organizations invest time and resources into robust ERP efforts.
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