Enterprise resource planning (ERP) was introduced in the late 80’s and it included financials, human resources and more but in the age of technology how can ERP be used to develop IT-related marketing strategies.
There are many ERP strategies but a good one would take into consideration Business goals, business requirements, processes and IT architecture. Same way a good programmer plans his code through before start writing it you should take each point into consideration and think your plan carefully through to get the most of it.
A field such as IT is very complex and needs very careful planning through every move that’s where a defined ERP comes in handy to help plan the work in a very resourceful way to help prdouce the best project possible.We can use ERP plans to set goals, business goals for IT development since the code is written for a purpose might as well include business goals and business requirements to make a more market suitable code that will eventually lead to better results and better income.
Not only coding can be impacted with the ERP planning for example software designing is a very impactful field that’d have a better market plans with a better strategy, a software that is designed with better features to serve the customer would have better sales rather than the one designed with features to serve and satisfy the designer! obviously that is going to lead to a change in the process of designing the software and the thoughts that goes into it since it’s business oriented.
Many IT projects run on a budget and very specific timeline, we always hear stories about how ERP implementations missing their deadlines or overruns the budget. That’s where setting goals and having a well defined plan comes in most of the companies that had problems with ERP strategies didn’t have a defined plan to begin with, which is going to lead to IT costs escalating and budget overrun.
A well defined ERP leads to a better data management , better resource management and usage as there will be better definition and handling for these resources, more effective project, better efficiency and better creativity. Same way it takes into account potential vendors and helps take better and quicker decision making process, ERP focuses on active usage of data and resources to achieve goals in the best possible way which eventually helps shape up and orient the project especially in such a field where every software,hardware or even a small piece of code should have a purpose before it’s even thought through.
And creating IT strategy, including all the various systems and tools to help make it easier to refer to any system in any case of errors. ERP, a well defined ERP IT strategy is going to help not only the project but the company as well since it uses each of the resources provided in business oriented way that will help give each employee and worker a certain job that will actively use their gifts to help each the project and the company grow in the best possible way which will help in time and budget management.