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Advantages of Cloud-based ERP for the Manufacturing Industry

Advantages of Cloud-based ERP for the Manufacturing Industry

The trend toward cloud computing is hard to ignore even for manufacturing companies, who are continually asking if a cloud solution is right for them. What’s the cloud providing to businesses in the manufacturing industry? Let’s see how cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) can handle manufacturing concerns.

What is an Enterprise Resource Planning solution?

An ERP system integrates internal and external management information across the entire company, assimilating accounting, manufacturing processes, sales, and customer relationship management. ERP systems facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside and outside the organization.

According to a Gartner Forecast from late 2011, the SaaS-delivered ERP market will grow at a 14.7% compound annual growth rate until 2015. Manufacturing software vendors are moving their attention to the cloud and the market is divided between 4 major SaaS ERP players: NetSuite Manufacturing, Epicor Express for Manufacturing, Infor Industrial Manufacturing, and SAP Business ByDesign.

Why Cloud ERP?

Some of the advantages of cloud- based ERP solutions for manufacturing enterprises include:

·         Minimized initial investment. On-site ERP solutions require purchasing, housing and maintaining servers, then deploying, configuring, and maintaining the ERP software. The Cloud ERP solution does not require a substantial initial investment. The process of implementing, maintaining, and keeping the solution up to date is the responsibility of the solution provider.

·         Minimized technical staff implication.  By eliminating the costs and complexities of installing and integrating additional hardware to support the ERP, enterprises that use cloud-based solutions don’t have to hire additional technical staff to support the application on an ongoing basis.

·         Increase ROI of the ERP application investment. Cloud ERP solutions can easily be implemented and integrated faster into the enterprise’s day-to-day activity.

·         Increased scalability. Cloud ERP systems are easily scalable to meet new business requirements. This benefit is particularly useful for enterprises with specific seasonal activities that need to quickly develop or integrate new functions to meet their business requirements.

If you’re in the manufacturing industry and consider implementing a cloud based ERP, look after vendors that developed solutions specifically for manufacturing processes.  But first, analyze your business needs, your internal procedures, if applicable, evaluate the need to integrate multiple plants and processes, and then assess if the cloud is the right solution.

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Comments(11)

  • Marco van den Akker

    February 22, 2013

    Could you line up a list of companies which offer ERP solutions on a market.
    Some suggestions are : Maven Effect, SAP, OpenERP

  • Jay

    February 25, 2013

    Good post. The benefits of Cloud based ERP solutions are numerous .Manufacturing companies that leverage ERP on the cloud can benefit from increased efficiency and cost savings. Read this very interesting whitepaper on ERP selection that readers may find interesting “Beyond QuickBooks Choosing the right ERP solution for your organization” @ bit.ly/zSEOXf

  • Denny

    March 12, 2013

    Timesplitter is a brand new webbased application which helps employees to register their spent work hours at the office, workshop or on the road in a user-friendly way. Employees can use it at any place at any time, since it’s in the cloud.

    Timesplitter can be scaled to your needs. It is simple to up- or downgrade the capacity of the application. They also offer a solution to connect Timesplitter with ERP-software.

    You can use the free trial version for 30 days without being charged!

    More info: http://www.timesplitter.net

  • Enterprise Resource Planning

    June 4, 2013

    The benefits of ERP software are beyond any doubts

  • Globalteckz

    August 21, 2014

    An ERP system introduces fundamental innovations in managing resources, which eliminates delays and thus reduces cost of operations. For instance, use of mobility allows real-time collection of data, which is indispensable to lowering costs.

    Further if you are choosing Cloud Based ERP software you gain the biggest advantage of effective pricing

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  • Fekara

    July 31, 2018

    Regardless of whether your business is substantial or little, there are a few focal points of big enterprise resource planning software.

  • Anand shukla

    May 13, 2019

    very useful information sharing…

  • John Lee

    September 30, 2020

    Nice article. A cloud-based ERP helps streamline and make these work processes that current companies need more flexible.

  • Vishal

    February 2, 2022

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