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3.1.6 Contributions of the ERP

The installation of the integrated solution will certainly have reflected positive on the level technological, strategic, productive and competitive of the company.

On the level of technology, the integrated software package proposes a solution achieved with methodology, the tools and technologies of tomorrow: it represents the best hope in front of the need for new data-processing solutions more opened, more integrated and more standardized.

On the strategic level, the integrated software package has a side structuring with respect to the company: it makes it possible to federate and homogenize the large variety of the processes and disparities of the company like the data-processing networks, the software and the tools, computer equipement, the management tools, measurement and analysis. It can also harmonize the way of working of the various sites of the company.

Synergy between the various actors created by the project of establishment of an integrated software package results in a better organization of work.

Thanks to the integrated software package, the company can benefit from the experiment of the others, rather than to begin again of zero and to recreate its company.

The integrated software packages propose processes for the various activities without imposing them.

The integrated software packages contribute today to a less progression of the data-processing budgets: the return on investment (KING) is very fast.

The integrated software packages facilitate maintenance and reduce the costs of the developments.

To face the keen competition, the ERP can be regarded as a key factor of competitiveness. It presents a global vision of the activity in real time and ensures :

· The implementation of the concept of - just in time;

· The optimization of the costs of all the blocks of management ;

· The reduction of the duration of the processes ;

· Increase in the quality of the products ;

· Improvement of work and collaboration in team ;

· The levelling with the state of the market ;

· Fast evolution towards new functionalities to allow a better reactivity compared to the request for the market.

The very strong human implication that the establishment of an integrated software package requires translates by a strong adaptation of the users to their new solution.

3.1.7 Limits of the ERP

As in any system, one notes defects with the ERP, which come paradoxically from their qualities.

These integrated software packages of management cover practically the whole of the processes. They take difficult and a long time to put in work and by definition are very integrated and thus relatively rigid and delicate to modify. Their installation requires the conjugation of technical skills and functional. The company must set up pre-necessary them (definition of the work-flow, rules of management, etc) necessary to their durable and successful implementation.

The ERP is by very rich definition, it is a consumer in data-processing power (waiters, networks, etc).

It does not include all the rules and principles of management what obliges the purchaser has to adapt the company to the product and especially to make the dead end on a certain number of functionalities.