Answer to Question #247052 in Management for aman

Question

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has played a key roles in improving an organisation’s effectiveness and efficiency in attaining its goals. ERP applications have bought many benefits to various sections in an organisations.

a. Elaborate the roles of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in improving an organisation’s operation performances.

b. Discuss the main elements of application modules in ERP that may enhance manufacturing companies performance, with appropriate examples.

Answer 1

Question a

1. Reduces complexity in an organization through simplified planning tools integrated into the software and elimination intensive human involvement.

2. ERP reduces errors of data, thus improving the quality and accuracy of operations

3. Saves time; ERP reduces the time that is staff would have spent to in resources planning process manually.

Question b

1. Human resources

HR ERP can be used to handle employee management in an organization. For example, it applies from on-boarding to off-boarding and administration activities in a manufacturing firm

2. Customer relationship management (CRM)

CRM-ERP is another helpful component that allows a manufacturing business organization to keep track of all customer-related data such as purchases, complaints, and other information to help optimize marketing solutions

3. Business intelligence (BI)

BI-ERP component is applicable in manufacturing firms; BI can be integrated into ERP software to collect, organize and analyze data in order to provide practical insights related to manufacturing practices.