Vendors’ Influence on Enterprise Resource Planning Decision

Subject: Decision Making
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To facilitate large business enterprises to function in a smooth way, an ERP system is essential. While selecting or implementing a new ERP system in a business, the vendor should be aware to provide the best and most suitable one. The development of software needs huge costs, so the vendor should know the budget of the customer. Then only he can create an ERP system according to the budget. The vendor should understand the detailed information about the business before producing an ERP and also should know the requirement and business goals of the customer in a proper manner.

“If the organization anticipates conducting international business in the future, then your new ERP system will need to accommodate multi-currency, multi-language and foreign regulatory requirements.”

Customer satisfaction is the success of the software, and the failure of a system will lead to the failure of the business. During the analysis of requirements in the developing process, the vendor should ensure the participation of the customer in the analysis activity because then only they can understand the actual need of the customer. Thus, the vendor can create an appropriate ERP which is most suitable for running the business without any risk. Today, technology is changing very fast, and for the existence of business in the competitive business field, there should be more solutions in an ERP to meet the business requirements. Always keep in communication with the customers to know the relevant and current information of the business. When implementing the ERP, a test scenario should be conducted to verify the success of the project, and the vendor should also provide hardware and software service to the organization after the demonstration of ERP.