Select an ERP instance and check the effectiveness of the advertisement.

After decades of development and exploration by some leading enterprises, some mature ERP management software has emerged, such: SAP, Oracle, Kingdee, yonyou, xinzhongda, and shenzhoudigital. Although the products provided by these manufacturers are generally referred to as ERP management software, the difference in functionality is relatively large, and the price is also very different, ranging from several 100,000 to tens of millions. So how should we choose among the numerous ERP software to select the ERP software that is truly suitable for our use?

Based on my previous project experience, I will summarize some of the issues that need to be paid attention to during the selection phase in the project as follows:

1. Learn more about ERP


What is the core idea of ERP management software? What are the features of effective control between various work links and functional modules? What are the requirements of ERP management software for enterprise management? These are what business leaders or CIOs should know before they have an ERP idea. Instead of seeing other people go to ERP management software, they also need to pay for it, it will also disrupt enterprise management.

Ii. Demand on demand

On ERP is not a problem, and the first step is to determine whether the current situation requires ERP management software, before the enterprise has formed a certain scale, there is often no standard workflow in the enterprise, and ERP software is not necessarily in urgent need of management, capital, market, and other aspects. At this time, ERP cannot bring impetus to the development of the enterprise in many cases, instead, it forms resistance.

This is like a server operating system. Most of the internal servers of small and medium-sized enterprises run Windows
Server operating systems. As a result, the company leader heard from the outside that the Unix series server operating system is good, with high security and good performance. The company requires all the internal servers to replace the operating system with Unix or Linux. Such results can be imagined, not only to increase security and improve efficiency within the enterprise, but also seriously affect the normal work of the IT department.

Iii. Enterprise Scale

The reason for selecting ERP is to increase the size of the enterprise, mainly because of the wide variety of ERP management software in terms of software prices, ranging from tens of thousands to tens of millions. In addition to the price of the ERP management software, the corresponding projects, such as servers, database software, and networks, are also a small investment. Without considering the size of an enterprise and blindly determining the direction of selection, it will undoubtedly waste a lot of manpower and material resources. In addition, the size of the enterprise IT department is also critical. Some small and medium-sized enterprise IT departments may only have one or two persons. If the ERP management software module is complete, we need to consider increasing the number of ERP maintenance personnel.

Just like enterprise network planning, how many enterprises are dependent on computer networks? What is the volume of data on the Intranet? These are all factors that need to be considered. Instead of setting up a gigabit-level network if the gigabit-level performance is good, the company's budget for the project is also an important part of network planning.
Iv. ERP model selection. Check the effectiveness of advertising.

There are more and more ERP management software vendors, with dozens of well-known and unknown vendors, and hundreds of thousands. The software provided by different vendors will naturally have their own characteristics. However, when our enterprise develops to a certain scale, it will also form certain enterprise characteristics, that is, the actual operation mode or habits of the enterprise, these are already profound in the ideology of enterprise employees, forming a certain enterprise thinking model. Whether it is a successful enterprise or a poorly-performing Enterprise, you must understand the problems to be solved and the bottlenecks of the enterprise development, this is the fundamental problem to consider when selecting ERP management software.

Nowadays, many sellers pay attention to "advertising tactics". First of all, they give an impression or a good impression on the psychological level. Now some ERP management software vendors have joined the ranks of the advertising army. However, when selecting ERP management software, we should not only look at advertisements, but also the successful and failed cases of software vendors. In the case of success or failure, we can learn from some successful or failed experiences more or less. In the case of success or failure, we also need to consider the professionalism of the ERP software vendor. What are the advantages of the vendor, have successful implementation experience in similar industries.

This is like a product advertised in a TV shopping advertisement. It doesn't mean that you are not good at advertising. For example, what is the result of the most popular cell phone? It has already caused quality problems. In the face of advertisements, it is often easy to be fooled by the advocating side. When buying advertisements, you still need to consult more people. users' word of mouth is more convincing than the advertising language.

V. Summary

ERP selection is a headache for many enterprises. After all, "Three-Point Software and seven-point selection" has become the primary key factor for successful ERP implementation. During the entire selection process, the selection is also an urgent task, and cannot be covered by the manufacturer's advertisement. After understanding the enterprise's own needs, problems, and development bottlenecks, more is the need to understand the effectiveness of candidate manufacturers' software, visit the same industry to learn about their ERP management software implementation.

The selection of ERP management software is a major event, but it can also be reduced to the daily things around us, just like buying a mobile phone or asking someone to help you decide which brand or model of the mobile phone to choose, we should also consider our own or the other party's needs and actual level, if you don't know anyone, you can only buy a high-end smartphone.

Reputation is the result. To choose ERP management software, you need to choose a manufacturer that is suitable for the industry with professional experience. As we mentioned lighter, everyone will think of zippo. When talking about mobile phones, they will think of Nokia, this is also the effect of word of mouth, without advertising, everyone knows. Due to the particularity of ERP management software, although no software vendor can be suitable for all enterprises of all sizes and have a good reputation, however, when selecting ERP, We must select the most professional and mature implementation experience in the industry where the enterprise is located. This is often the most basic guarantee for the success of ERP launch implementation.