ERP is a strong and effective process re-configuration opportunity. Don’t miss this
chance to take a fresh look inside your organisation – and with an honest dissection

Many organisations feel a hard-to-describe juju when they decide to move forward to ERP. It is like calling a very ruthless, but a very deft, interior designer to your house. The moment s/he sits down and takes a hard stare at everything around; you know this is going to be so much more than a paint-job. ERP is not some IT varnish to hide away the black corners. It will not merely spackle the holes with a quick brush. ERP is a lot of process introspection too. In fact, that’s what it starts with. Stripping away all the loose-ends and the mold on the walls before it begins to make everything shine.

Why and how?

ERP and Process-Reshuffle

The very tenet of ERP rests in its ability to streamline various processes with a single-information lens. The idea is to use technology to integrate siloes in a never-before, and seamless, dashboard so that various business users are able to see, use, and act on information that had been hidden in blind cobwebs and manual processes.

When ERP kicks in, the enterprise is able to look at a lot that was weighing down business processes. ERP helps the business to take a hard, anatomical, candid and granular gaze at:

• Redundancies locked inside old process set-ups
• Inefficiencies that arise due to poorly-collected and weakly-documented data
• Inability to put data in the right places
• Laziness or helplessness in converting data into information
• Unnecessary layers in some business processes
• Hours and efforts of human resources that only duplicate work or delay the outcome
• Wastage of precious human capabilities and time
• Bureaucratic hurdles and friction that create delays and confusion
• Weakly-connected processes and information-pipes
• Unnecessary data-points or paths that add no value to insights
• Opacity in data monitoring and control
• Costly delays in acting on contingencies and making real-time decisions
• Slackening, heavy and burdensome parts inside- and around- processes
• A fragmented and fractured approach to data across the enterprise

When ERP arrives, lean processes follow

ERP cannot be pasted on an organisation without addressing all the above factors. It will just not work. ERP is a change that happens deep inside the processes. It streamlines, connects and strengthens business processes by attacking at many inefficiencies and redundant areas first.

The entire exercise of ERP begins with a thorough look and investigation of what is wrong or weak with business processes – specially when they are trampled with the heavy foot of old and irrelevant legacy approaches and paperwork. The strategic approach of ERP makes sure that processes are analysed and reconfigured with an eye on the future. Specially when you do so with an expert like Presence360. The detailed, well-dissected and well-dovetailed approach of our Presence 360 solutions have helped many enterprises reconfigure a lot of business functions with a crisp, sharp and future-forward hand.s

Presence 360 has been able to successfully re-incarnate supply chain, HRMS, retail, manufacturing, inventory, operations and marketing with the spirit of automation, digitalisation, speed and efficiency. All the flab from processes is taken away. All the unnecessary stuff that was holding these processes back gets wiped away. All the impediments – whether manual or red tape- are dug out and erased when the ERP project starts to roll.

ERP, then, becomes an exercise in true self-understanding for the enterprise. It is able to actually look inwards with a detailed and honest eye – at everything it has been dragging for so long (without realising how much it weighed on it). ERP helps the business and various business-users to identify all pockets of costs, inefficiencies, time waste and resource over-use that come up in this surgical analysis of every process. Before automation happens, a lot of process-fat is cut away. Before Analytics, Business Intelligence and Digitalisation are ushered in, a lot of unwanted layers are taken out. ERP truly enables an enterprise to look it processes with an objective eye. And with the right designers, like Presence360, it is able to do a true assessment without any more myopia or bias or comfort-zone preferences. It is able to move forward to leaner, tighter, faster and smarter processes – with a neutral, brave and forthright look at what’s stopping the process from turning into a business-edge.

ERP will make you break some walls. It will make you rearrange a lot of chairs and tables. It will pull a lot of carpets and expose what’s hiding beneath them. It will make you create new rooms, break old attics and open up new gateways. So yes, ERP is so much more than a painter’s day. It is spring-cleaning of all your processes. Be ready and brave enough to face all that dust and all those greasy nooks. Be ready to feel fresh and new. And not just because the paint smells so.