As a business grows, there comes a time when it must move from a collection of small business software solutions to an integrated, industrial-strength enterprise resource planning solution (ERP) built for added complexity and greater transaction volumes.
However, ERP is complicated to set up and roll out since it touches all parts of a business and encompasses all of an organization’s processes. So the question naturally arises: Are there industry-specific ERP solution packages that can make for a faster rollout? With SAP, the ERP market leader, the answer is a resounding YES!
GROW with SAP Makes ERP Rollout Easier
Before business went fully digital, ERP solutions were predominantly the domain of manufacturing operations and larger Fortune 500 companies. But as the value of data visibility, system connectivity, and automation has increased, businesses of all types now lean on ERP for managing operations. Fully 80 percent of SAP’s ERP business now comes from small to mid-sized businesses, many of those outside of the manufacturing community.
As a result, SAP has developed its GROW with SAP program to make ERP more accessible and easier to roll out for small to mid-sized businesses that focus on growth. GROW with SAP is a complete solution that helps a business of any size adopt a cloud-based ERP with speed and predictability. It bundles SAP’s ready-to-run cloud ERP solution, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, together with adoption and acceleration services, as well as access to customers, partners, and SAP experts that help businesses thrive in the cloud.
Instead of starting with a generic ERP solution that must be fully configured and integrated with a business, an organization that uses GROW with SAP gets a solution that comes pre-configured with standard industry best practices and pre-build integrations for a faster, less-complex ERP rollout. This SAP ERP solution also is built for growth, with a pathway for expanding the system as new functionality, transaction volumes, or lines of business are required.
With a GROW with SAP solution, a business can roll out a complete ERP backend system in as little as 90 days that is ready for operations today and as the organization expands.
Prepacked SAP Industry Solutions to Drive Faster Results
Part of the GROW with SAP program is a modular ERP system methodology that enables the creation of prepackaged industry solutions that come ready to use for a given line of business. With a prepackaged industry solution, a business can start with an SAP ERP that comes pre-configured for the needs of its given industry and with best practice workflows already set up in the system.
Through a prepackaged industry solution, a business gets comprehensive end-to-end business processes delivered by pre-configured best practice processes and industry-specific scenarios. These pre-configured ERP solutions support finance, sourcing and procurement, sales, service, manufacturing, R&D engineering, asset management, supply chain, and even areas such as human resources.
For instance, a life sciences business can use a GROW with SAP solution for research & development that comes pre-built for handling clinical trials and internal research & development projects as well as needed business functions such as inventory management, procurement, and complete financial management. It can roll out this system for as little as $350K.
By starting with most of what a business needs pre-configured, an organization can cut down on the time and cost of implementation. Through the use of best practice workflows for a given industry, businesses also can focus on growing the unique parts of the business instead of having to reinvent backend workflows that contribute little to differentiation and largely are standard across a given industry.
A business should be innovating around products and services, not accounting practices and human resource management. This is what a prepackaged industry solution delivers.
Is There a Prepackaged Industry Solution for Your Business?
Whether your business is a consumer products company or a life sciences firm conducting clinical trials, there’s probably an SAP-prepackaged industry solution right for you.
As an SAP Gold partner that has helped businesses implement more than 500 ERP solutions over the past 30 years, we’ve learned the needs and seen the challenges that businesses face with ERP across a range of industries. Through the GROW with SAP program, we’ve developed a range of turnkey ERP solutions for industries such as manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, life sciences, professional services, and retail, among others.
As an experienced implementation partner, we can help your business put in place all you need for growth both today and as your business expands.
Learn more about GROW with SAP or our various prepackaged industry solutions. You also can get your specific questions answered by talking with one of our experienced ERP consultants at (801) 642-0123 or by writing us at info@nbs-us.com.
