Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Modern ERP systems can provide greater working freedom

The High Demand of ERP application from the small and mid-size market manufacturer is big morale boosting for ERP system Providers . Which has given encouragement to innovate new additions to the system that would greatly help the SMEs in the coming days.
Easy way of operational methodologies and an user-friendly interface with more advanced features are the highlight of eresource ERP systems that give the SMEs an upper hand in their business process. eresource ERP has been developed to meet the requirements of various types of manufacturers.
Customization of ERP system
The early version of ERP system was highly rigid and required programmer-level skills and source-code access in order to make even minor changes, such as alterations to screen layouts. Unfortunately, there are some companies still relying in this types first-generation ERP solutions. Come to think of, customizing these software packages is an expensive venture. We therefore advise our customers to look for more flexible and reliable ERP solution rather than spending in the customization of the out-dated system which is going to be a waste of resources.
Modern ERP systems like eresource provide greater independence through customization and personalization tools. In addition to this customization tool , eresource ERP systems come with workflow-management tools, which also allow a company to adapt the software to its own, unique business processes. Workflow tools, for example, can interrupt a software process; suspend a transaction and send a notification; suspend a transaction for managerial approval; or route a partially completed transaction to another employee. These tools help coordinate the activities of several employees, working in different areas of a company. 

Why Study Enterprise Resource Planning for Architectural Industry?

The increased competition and greater risk in Architectural industries has compelled companies of all sizes to work in integrated and collaborative information management platforms such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. ERP systems provides an integrated real time view of essential business processes, using common databases. These systems track business resources such as materials, production capacity, service units, cash and the status of sales orders, purchases, and payroll.Today, ERP systems not only produce measurable profit benefits, they can also help to reduce risk by bringing together multiple offline systems and unrelated technologies into a unified data rich environment. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions, and manages connections to stakeholders.A well designed and well implemented ERP system can offer Architectural companies many benefits such as:Workflow Redundancy, Visibility, Real Time Information, Agility, Cash Flow,Compliance,Business Intelligence. Properly implemented and managed ERP system can improve a company’s competitive position tremendously by driving business efficiency and not leaving decisions to be made without the support of time sensitive and accurate information.
Many ERP technologies are cloud-based and work from a remote server. Critical factors for ERP technologies in a cloud are security and privacy. ERP in the cloud provides the convenience of computing capacity on demand over the Internet. It also has the same flexibility and security of an on-premise deployment of ERP.
An ERP system provides the solid operational backbone Architectural companies, need to improve the volume of their business while reducing costs. By optimizing systems and processes companies will be able to focus on new business opportunities.ERP systems of today are cheaper with reduced customizations .The benefits of real-time accurate project information and executive dashboards are proving to be a critical project management tool that yields positive cost/benefit evaluations.
The Architectural industries are transforming away from their disparate legacy systems and realizing the role technology can play in increasing profitability while reducing risk.The biggest advantage of an ERP system is to see what is going on as it happens with highly accurate information and significantly reduced data entry.

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Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Construction CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) entails all aspects of interaction that a company has with its customers, whether it is sales or service-related. While the phrase customer relationship management is most commonly used to describe a business-customer relationship (B2C), CRM systems are also used to manage business to business to business (B2B) relationships. Information tracked in a CRM system includes contacts, clients, contract wins and sales leads and more. CRM software is a phrase used to describe a category of enterprise software that covers a broad set of applications and software to help businesses manage customer data and customer interaction, access business information, automate sales, marketing and customer support and also manage employee, vendor and partner relationships.
In todays world CRM software is designed to help businesses meet the overall goals of customer relationship management.Today's CRM software is highly scalable and customizable, allowing businesses to gain actionable customer insights with a back-end analytical engine, view business opportunities with predictive analytics, streamline operations and personalize customer service based on the customer's known history and prior interactions with your business.
In CRM Dashboard is a term that is widely used to describe an application interface that provides users with quick access to information or common tasks. In CRM (customer relationship management) the dashboard is used 
eresource CRM dashboard provides a real time snapshot of your organization's key metrics. Using dashboard to visualize the opportunities, approach, status of sales-lead in SPANCO model i.e Suspect Definition Prospect Identification, Approach -Analysis Evaluation and qualification of requirements, identification of the solution negotiation, Closing Finalization, Order Ongoing Account follow-up and Order management and sales monitoring.A CRM dashboard is designed to let users perform some specific actions and tasks with a single mouse-click from this interface. For example, a click from the CRM dashboard could provide you with a detailed report on any lead follow-ups that are scheduled for today.