ERP Implementing vs. staying divided, if you dont your r out of the game!!

Implementing ERP?

What is ERP? I get confused with so many abbreviated phrases EBIT (Earnings Before Income Tax), FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond Any Recognition), OK (Zero Kills), but wait I’m a manufacturing engineer and this I know = Enterprise Resource Management. It is a system that centralizes all the company’s information, if we were talking about a car factory this system would have all the departments linked. This is done to control, standardize, synergize, and ultimately reduce costs.

It is a very painful and complicated journey to get into this system. There’s a Hershey’s case study of how they went wrong with the ERP implementation. You have to gather the information, input it into the system, teach the users (employees) to use and maintain the system, and at the end you might see the profit. The vision of a perfectly implemented ERP would be the CEO of a company checking the back orders from sales, the prototype design of the new car, the day capacity of the assembly line, the inventories, all a click away, and all lower management inputting and sharing information to work more efficiently. I have never seen it work 100%, but it’s a nice dream that soon will be possible with the right technology that would make it simpler and less tedious to do.

That was the manufacturing context, since this is Information Systems related lets talk about IT ERP. ERP is quite old already and its popularity has decreased because companies start implementing it and get stuck or just don’t get results. BUT now its alive again, OPEN SOURCE ERP. Yeahhhh!!!! Its easy, adaptable to any business and its already offered by many. I would have to see it to believe it.