Enterprise Software

When companies grow, a decision need to be made in which digital tool to use for administration of the company. Control Automation Solutions can help you in choosing, configuring and implementing business administration or Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for your company. With ERP software you can do many things, but not necessarily all software systems support everything you need or want to do. So making a selection of software systems that have the functions you want, or need, will reduce the software systems to choose from. After you choose a software system that has the component you need, the only thing you need to decide on is whether to choose the system that has the most functionality or the system that has the best price.

The types of functions you can expect to have in an ERP system are typically:

Financial management

For the financial management aspect, usually you would expect a bank account connection, invoicing and accounting to be included in the system. Different software systems will allow you to configure different elements of the reporting or layouts of the invoices. But the important configurations are to do in the accounts and bank account link. To start using the ERP system, make sure that you start on a new book year with the correct amount configured as the start amounts in the accounts. Also make sure that the financial system is configured according to your countries laws, as the software is sold in many countries, this is usually what needs to be setup for each company.

Additional tools you can choose is usually a purchasing module or stock management.

Production support

Production support mostly contains modules to register hours, register materials or components and pricing them for production. This can also contain forms and workflows for approval of different requests. Optionally there might be options for chats or meeting systems in this system, so your employees do not need to leave the ERP system software to do any of their office work.

Administration support

The administration support module should mostly contain HR and salary administration functions, this can help you to streamline your certificate management, contract management, employee evaluation forms and compensation from worked hours registered in the production module. Combining the Financial, Production and Admin modules, can help you stop manually entering data into different tools.

Sales support

When it comes to sales, the module usually contains a CRM system to keep your business contacts logged. In some systems you can add a quotation module to make it easy to create a quote, send it to a customer and then, when signed, easily migrate the quote to a work order. This workflow will again save a lot of manual and error prone data entry, and so it can save a lot of money due to efficiency.

Control Automation Solutions can help

Control Automation Solutions can help you to select a system, or make a pre-selection. Control Automation Solutions can also implement the chosen system for you, and configure all the required connections to other systems, and import the current business data. This way you can start on the 1st day of the new business year. If you are a production company, and you would like to connect the ERP system to your production environment Control Automation Solutions can help you by implementing and MES system like our own Production Management suite.