Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrates management, staff, and equipment into one system to facilitate every aspect of functional applications of the business. ERP needs many modifications and upgrades in the software to give complete solutions to the current market scenario. ERP software developers have a lot of pressure from the customer’s end to fulfill the customers’ requirements to achieve their high expected goals.
Companies facing a financial crisis and pressure to reduce the operational cost, Top Management implementing advanced technology and new methods to reduce the cost and improve the performance of their workforce and assets. In the meantime, software professionals bring new trends in the ERP system.
Modernization of ERP
Software professionals analyze and examine the risk factors while facing the pre-implementation and post-implementation and the problems facing the current ERP user. Then, they proposed solutions to avoid these risks and make it user-friendly software.
Market Trends and Expectations
ERP is a widely used software across all companies. It is well known for its integrity and measuring processes, which the company stands on. However, mainly ERP software is more popular across all types of businesses for its traditional strengths like measurable capability, end-to-end business support, high integrity, and global performance. These are the basic strengths of the software which fulfill the company’s needs. But as the business strategy increases globally, as usual, the competition also increases between the companies. So, that the users’ requirements also increase to beat the competition in the market, and to meet the customer expectation and satisfaction, they are asking for the new trends in the enterprise resource planning solutions, which influences their business.
The global ERP users have many expectations of new developments in the software. The below are some of the requirements.
Reduction in Implementation Time
ERP takes such a long time to install get set the total system into the process. This is indirectly causing the chances of reduction in potential business by losing man-hours. Software users expect ERP applications to be easy to install and reduce the amount of time spent on the implementation.
Expenditure
ERP implementation is a very costly aspect, as large firms only can manage to invest such huge investments having funds. But, small or medium-scale firms cannot put such a huge amount to get the software implemented in their companies despite having adequate funds. Therefore, the expenses to implement an ERP solution need to be reduced to a minimum level so that small and medium scale companies can also invest according to their capacity to get benefits from the new technology.
Need-Based Application
The main backdrop in ERP implementation is that organizations have to purchase the complete package irrespective of their usage of the applications. Though some of the applications are not helpful in the functions, companies have to buy the complete software. This is the biggest hurdle of enterprise resource planning software. Users want to see the changes in the ERP to get user-friendly software.
Apart from the mentioned trends, there is a growing tendency to expand the functionality of ERP solutions onto mobile devices by offering custom mobile apps. Furthermore, advanced analytics allows to compress the data and deliver key information that either requires immediate decision making or can show the current state of the business in parameters that are easy to comprehend.
