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This article talks about the key essentials that a business should consider before selecting an ERP solution for organising and managing their enterprise operations.

ERP is now at the heart of every business, helping people and corporates to streamline their day to day operations. However, the success story of an ERP venture starts with the choice of the solution. While you need a bespoke software development firm that can make your ERP venture true, there are certain factors to keep in mind for assuring that they deliver you the right ERP solution. You can call them as your ERP selection criteria. But whatever they are, contemplating them well can help you get a great solution that has functionalities aligned with your specific business process and performs flawlessly, catering to them.  

So, here are the key things to consider beforehand.

Process-specific requirements

At first, check this from your partnered ERP vendor, i.e. whether they can provide a solution, specifically to the business’s processes. By discussing with your production managers and employees, get a solid consensus about which of the requirements the ERP ‘must-have’ and the ones that can be integrated later. Then make sure from your ERP consultant whether they can provide all that in your solution.

End users

You need to consider the employees in each of the departmental areas who will be the real users the ERP. Understand their needs and expectations to make sure all of their requirements are fulfilled in the system. This is to ensure that whoever the users are, and from wherever they will work, they should be comfortable working with the new ERP system.

Needed customisations

A perfect ERP solution is built from the necessary customisations. It means whatever functions you want in your solution, you can incorporate it in the form of a module or feature. Odoo or any other ERP consultants should be adept at perceiving the needs of your business and customise the solution to address them with maximum efficiency.

Integrations with other existing software supports

Your enterprise might be running other software or IT systems to support other functional areas of the business apart from the production operations. It may be sales and marketing, billing and accounting. If you think that those systems are quite adequate in their purpose and you don’t need replacing them, then make sure that the new ERP you are picking will integrate well with those systems. Considering the compatibility of the ERP with existing software systems are needed to ensure that in no way the functioning of either ERP or the software system is hindered.

Future scalability

Lastly, you need to know whether the ERP system your software partner providing you is having the capability to expand in the future. Your processes are supposed to expand, new departments or functional areas are supposed to arise as the business grows. So, check it out with your concerned ERP consultant whether the solution they will develop is scalable.

While some ERPs can satisfy all these criteria, some cannot. It actually based on the competencies of your ERP consultant and the software service provider. Hence, is this criteria list derived for you! Considering these will help them understand your specific operations, user needs and challenging circumstances in your organisation and get you a solution accordingly.

Johan Smith Is an Odoo consultant in Sydney, who works at GetAProgrammer, a leading software solutions provider of Odoo ERP in Australia which has been delivering business enterprises with avant-garde ERPs for the last 6 years.