Project management ERP solution

Project management ERP approach is what makes some business activities of the enterprises to be more predictable and therefore more effective, because those solutions are designed to let the business managers to concentrate at their hands a number of leverages to operate with the different kinds of organization’s business resources (workforce, time, storages, finances, vehicles, etc) in a consolidated, integrated manner that delivers better results than if everything is administrated separately. As far as the principles enables different matters to be mutually balanced, interconnected and synergistically managed to work for strategic overall objectives of the organization – therefore controllability of different risks and other factors increases. Once businessmen decide to find a way to increase efficiency of the workflow, they resort to possibility of a ERP implementation. We are going to consider in this article the topic, along with introducing some alternative samples to try.

Reasons of Failures:

We can say that in the most cases implementation of such a solution is an expensive effort that can be rejected just on initial step because of the price (especially by representatives of small & medium businesses with moderate IT-budgets to spend). Once they get into making a shareware comparison, they may come to a conclusion that all these systems are:

• Always tailored – it seems that a massive part of such an ERP system’s functionality should be adjusted by developers specifically to needs of every client to fit their business specificity, and therefore these systems are so expensive (due to a large amount of work for customization);
• Complicated in mastering – usually people think that using such a system requires a long period for adaptation of the staff to master and learn it, requiring arrangements such as post implementation trainings that need additional costs to be spent;
• Unreliable and complicated in support – due to complicated and intricate IT technologies used in such systems, some serious problems may occur from time to time, so that only a qualified IT-guy can resolve them (while normal business activity of the company gets blocked or important business data gets endangered) and therefore traditional paper-based methods are considered as less risky;

Perhaps for some systems all these problems are true, but in the most cases these problems just get hyperbolized by business executives, especially by old-school managers who are suspicious about using computer-based tools. There is lot of different projects to cover a variety of needs; however, small & medium businesses’ managers may need some simpler solutions that are fundamentally free of these issues. Let’s consider such a simple tool that can work as a sole module to operate with some basic matters such as tasks, time, costs and manpower.

Alternative Solution:

VIP Task Manager can be considered as an easy-to-use program with capabilities for small and medium business. Its functionality comprises possibilities to manage your business tasks (time, costs, etc), assign them to performers, and control performance in real-time. Generally, this project management ERP solution possesses the following benefits:

• Easiness in customization – you don’t really need any advanced IT skills to adjust this software to fit specificity of your local workflow as all customizable task attributes, interface, statuses of tasks, etc – all this can be easily changed by yourself, using advice of support operators;

• Easiness in mastering – there are no complicated interfaces and intricate functionality that need a lot of time to be mastered, because the most part of features can be easily learnt during one business day, while using clear and easy user tutorials (that can be freely downloaded from the web-site).
• Reliable and simple in support – when you use this program you don’t need to engage a regular attention of qualified specialists to keep this product properly running, but there are just some simple procedures allowing this program to be driven seamlessly.