Setting up a system can be costly and complicated, but the problems are not insurmountable
NOTHING PUTS MORE fear into executive management than the idea of implementing an ERP system.
Enterprise resource planning is not just a mouthful to say, the system is viewed by many business managers as a waste of money.
The idea is simple enough: take all your paperwork and diverse computer systems for accounting, ordering, payroll, shipping, inventory, bills of lading and everything else you need to run your business, and put it in one huge database with a simple interface.
That, more or less, is what an ERP implementation entails. A successful ERP system can truly simplify and help a company, but it can also cost a great deal of money.
And if the slightest thing goes wrong in the implementation, it may be useless.