Friday, August 22, 2008

A-Awareness of the need for change

Today we will tell you the first step which starts with general training and messages. As we have told you before these are the messages which should be disseminate to all employees in different level of company.

This section which is Awareness of the need for change has general messages which should be understood by all employees.

A_1- General training and messages which declare the need of ERP

A_1-1 Main concepts about ERP

  • ERP systems use shared databases and control all related business data such as Manufacturing, Finance, Purchasing, Sales, Inventory, Human resources etc.
  • ERP systems can be used as a solution for expediting and automating processes from order entry to order management, finance and manufacturing.
  • ERP systems are as an information backbone for decision support systems.
  • ERP systems not only integrate internal agents but also connect with external agents, customers, suppliers and co-workers. They can use the systems over internet which this reduces costs and increases external agents satisfactions.
  • Those enterprises which have felt organizational changes, ERP systems can help them as facilitator. This is with integrating processes within the organization and changing functional-oriented to process-oriented approach in managing the enterprise.
  • All companies and branches of an enterprise (Holding company) work coordinately using ERP.
  • All processes within organization have to use Best Practices with using ERP. It's no matter it Build To Order or Build To Stock.
  • Using ERP means applying and Best Practices from succeeded companies.
  • ERP's Flexibility, scalability and supporting most of the business processes could be as a basis for progress and improvement in organization.
  • ERP attributes deliver a proper atmosphere for customer servicing, profit improvement, increasing productivity and efficiency. It can cause cost reduction, revenue growth, control improvement, better managerial reports preparation and better information accessibility.
  • Information optimization, better market forecasting, proper production scheduling and inventory reduction are ERP using consequences.
  • Work flow management technology and e-commerce can reduce operational costs. ERP can help you in this area.
  • Removing island systems with high maintaining costs and replacing with integrated world class systems can facilitate receiving WTO preconditions.
  • ERP makes enterprise to talk with one common language across the departments.

Disseminate following messages to different levels of organization:

  • ERP means creating systematic intuition in organization
  • ERP means speed and accuracy in operations
  • ERP means emphasize on information within organization
  • ERP means total integration between systems in the organization
  • ERP means better service to customer
  • ERP means restarting and one more opportunity for redesigning the processes
  • ERP means radical thinking of processes for achieving better quality and servicing
  • ERP means change in legacy processes
  • ERP means deleting non active processes and maintaining and developing active ones
  • ERP means new sight to organization and optimizing it
  • ERP means deleting barriers to restructuring in organization
  • ERP means transferring from traditional management to effective management
  • ERP means availability to accurate, on time and related information to the concerned people
  • ERP means using from global best practices
  • ERP means planning on organization resources: Man, Machine, Money and Material