To understand an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, one good analogy is the human body. As we know, the body is full of organs that together keep a person alive, breathing, digesting and sensing. However, all of those individual functions are governed by the central nervous system, which directs and manages the activity we are both conscious and unconscious of. For example, we don't need to think about making our heart beat, but we can choose to take a step or what we have for lunch. 

A business functions in much the same way. On one hand, there are processes like payroll, accounting and other routine tasks that shouldn't interfere with the more deliberate moves an enterprise makes, like strategic planning and staffing. An ERP platform helps to organize those functions to happen simultaneously and harmoniously so that no time, energy and financial resources are lost. 

Mark Jeffery, research director of technology initiatives at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, proposed this analogy as a way to convince decision makers who aren't sold on the benefit of an ERP system. 

"The manufacturing, supply chain, financials, human resources and customer relations management each represent a different organ of the body or one module within the ERP system," explains IT Tech News Daily. "These modules help an organization run its business more effectively and efficiently through digitizing all information and data that used to have to be manually entered individually into each database."

At Accent Software, we can expertly deploy, monitor and troubleshoot a new ERP system that centralizes operations at your enterprise. Contact us today to learn more about which solution is right for your business.