Of course: an ERP system should above all make your company more efficient and thus more profitable. But aside from the question of money, a good ERP system can bring many other benefits to your employees. Better cooperation, greater job satisfaction and the option of working from home or remotely, for example.

Anno 2019, The New World of Work is impossible to imagine our society without. Many employees no longer want to be tied to fixed locations and fixed times in which they perform their work.

The government is also promoting the New Way of Working. For example, as a means to combat traffic congestion or as a means to promote the employment of people distanced from the labor market.

Optimal insight

For an employer, however, The New Way of Working is not always easy. You have your employees' best interests at heart, of course. But those changing times and locations make it more difficult to get a grip on the work and personal effectiveness of your employees. How do you ensure that you have optimal insight into the results being achieved? So you need a good ERP system for that.

An ERP system is used primarily for productivity reasons, but it can be a catalyst for a different way of working. The biggest advantage of a solid ERP package is that all data is available centrally.

An ERP system is used primarily for productivity reasons, but it can be a catalyst for a different way of working.

If you choose an ERP package in the cloud, the data can be viewed and edited in real time even remotely. Office walls then no longer become a limitation to the work your employees do.

More flexible

An ERP system makes a company more flexible anyway. It used to be that new orders were "knocked in" at a set time of day. Nowadays, new orders are entered online 24/7 and enter directly into the heart of your system. You can respond to them immediately.

Planning is much less complex because you have real-time visibility into inventory and production and because a good portion of that planning can be done automatically.

That suddenly makes working from home, working remotely and working in the evening or early morning much more logical. After all, you can be as effective at any time of day and in any location as you are when you are in the office!

You can be as effective at any time of the day and in any location as if you were in the office!

Better secured

With The New World of Work, many employers worry about data security. Without an ERP system, this is indeed an issue. For example, employees must then virtually log on to the server, via a VPN connection, to do their work. An ERP system, however, makes that unnecessary.

Because data is stored in one central location, it is easier to secure it properly from potential intruders. An ERP system usually replaces multiple software systems that previously had to be able to talk to each other. The fewer of these "bridges" that are needed, the lower the risk of data breaches.

Better collaboration

The experience of users is that a good ERP system can break down the traditional "walls" between various departments within your company.

In the old days, the Sales Department and the Planning Department used to have occasional misunderstandings....

Whereas the Sales department and the Planning department used to sometimes have a misunderstanding, a new ERP system allows a sales manager on site to see live the status of a project and whether a new order can be processed quickly. The Purchasing Department knows the current inventory status without having to depend on the Warehouse Department to do so.

In short: less internal control, less watching each other's fingers and more room for conversations about the things that really matter and help your business grow.