After hiring the experts you need to represent your business and finding high-quality products for customers, you are on the road to success. However, new challenges often come with newfound growth. If your business solutions don’t match your goals or aren’t versatile enough to keep up with business changes, then it’s time to find a solution that can support your growth instead of holding you back.
You’ve already spent a lot of time planting the seeds for business growth. You’ve got the right people, quality products, and the internal processes in place to keep a growing number of customers happy. However, there is still one important element that will either support your growth or stifle it – the right business management solutions. Disparate solutions may work sufficiently, independently of each other. However, they also create delays and reduce effective communication. Your sales team, for example, will have to schedule a meeting or send an email to notify procurement and manufacturing about pending orders. Someone from procurement has to visit the warehouse and perform a physical inventory count to determine what to order and when, then notify the manufacturing or distribution teams when inventory may be available. The regular meetings, overflowing email inboxes, and lagging inter-office mail slows everything down to a snail’s pace, which can impact your profitability as well as customer satisfaction.
Instead of disparate business software, give your business all that it needs for growth with an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. An integrated solution will provide the control and insight you need into all of your core business operations including finances, supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, project and services management, HR, and other processes. Using a single repository for all of your critical business data encourages greater communication and collaboration and offers greater efficiencies than disparate solutions. Your team can update customer orders, track inventory in real-time, and schedule manufacturing or distribution operations in a manner that improves productivity and meets customer demands. Real-time data about your business operations provides the insight you need to streamline operations, boost sales, and protect your profit margins.
The wrong business management solutions can stifle the very growth you are trying to achieve. Nurture your business with a comprehensive, integrated ERP solution that provides control, insight, and the leverage to promote growth. Contact Perimeter Business Solutions for more information about implementing an ERP solution and watch your flowers (and your business) thrive.
By Mark D. Kosakowski of Perimeter Business Solutions, Georgia Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner