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