Deploying a new ERP backend can digitally transform a business and bring both added efficiency and new capabilities for growing a business. Deeply embedded AI and universal connectivity are just two of the benefits that come from rolling out a modern, cloud-based ERP solution.

There’s still a widespread misconnection, however, that ERP deployment is time-consuming, hard, and expensive.

While implementation difficulty certainly epitomized ERP in the past, times have changed. Cloud ERP has made deployment faster and more cost-effective. And with the use of a prepackaged ERP industry solution, deployment has become even easier. With a prepackaged industry solution, your business can roll out a future-proof ERP in as little as months.

Understanding Prepackaged Industry Solutions for ERP

The core concept behind prepackaged ERP industry solutions is that most of what a business needs for backend functionality is similar across a given industry segment. All manufacturers need inventory control and quality management, for instance. Every distributor needs supply chain analytics and interconnectivity with suppliers and ecommerce systems.

Further, most backend processes that run a business are not actually competitive differentiators. A life sciences business doesn’t win or lose based on accounting practices or compliance management. Similarly, extended warehouse management processes often looks similar across the businesses that use it, especially within a given industry.

So instead of reinventing the wheel during ERP implementation, a business can lean on pre-defined configurations and best-practice processes that are baked in by default for a given line of business. Where custom processes are required or differentiation does exist, the business can easily adjust the configuration for these non-standard ways of operating.

By starting with an ERP solution that’s largely pre-made, your business can hit the ground running and avoid most of the headaches traditionally associated with ERP rollout. This dramatically cuts cost and deployment time.

Reliance on best practices also improves efficiency. Process logic already is optimized and tested through industry best practices that are standard across a line of business. This reliance on best practice processes serves to make an ERP modernization both a functionality boost and a process improvement project at the same time.

SAP Industry Solutions Offered by Navigator

We’ve been helping businesses implement ERP solutions for more than 30 years as an SAP Gold Partner, so we deeply understand the needs and processes of several lines of business.

Because of this, we’ve long offered prepackaged industry solutions in select industries. This methodology is now embraced as a core philosophy at SAP, but we’ve been doing it even before it was popular. So our prepackaged industry solutions are refined and nearly turnkey.

There are seven industry segments where you can take advantage of a Navigator-designed prepackaged industry solution. All are based on SAP Cloud ERP, a scalable, extensible ERP solution that future-proofs operations, so your business can grow and evolve without limits or the need for system migration later.

Consumer Products ERP Solution

Our consumer products solution is an industrial-grade manufacturing platform with a true omnichannel foundation for today’s dynamic supply chain and sales environment.

It comes configured with digital manufacturing, extended warehouse management, product lifecycle management, robust customer relationship management, and both ecommerce and EDI integrations for seamless connectivity with other systems.

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Retail Industry ERP Solution

The retail industry is a constant race for customer satisfaction and keeping pace with ever-changing trends, and it requires an ERP that is customer-adaptive and truly omnichannel.

Our prepackaged industry solution for retail is built for all that a retail business needs, including customer experience, merchandising, sourcing & procurement, supply chain, store operations, finance, and HR.

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Industrial Products ERP Solution

Industrial products businesses today require a delicate balance between meeting customer demands and navigating intricate supply chains.

Our prepackaged ERP solution for industrial products assists with this juggling act by combining digital manufacturing, extended warehouse management, and sustainability oversight with supply chain and field service management functionality for end-to-end visibility and control. It also seamlessly connects with partner and ecommerce systems.

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Life Sciences ERP Solution

Life sciences businesses need complete visibility and control around sourcing, manufacturing, quality standards, and compliance. They also often must seamlessly integrate with contract manufacturers and validate their processes for FDA approval.

Our prepackaged ERP solution for life sciences is a validation-ready ERP that handles research and development through commercialization. It brings track and trace and serialization to manufacturing, integrates easily with CMOs, manages regulatory requirements, and comes with robust visibility and analytics for meeting quality standards, optimizing supply chain needs, and making data-driven decisions.

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Manufacturing ERP Solution

Our prepackaged ERP solution for manufacturing streamlines and centralizes data from all departments, and it automates manufacturing processes for enhanced visibility and control across the organization.

It comes ready for company-wide automation, supply chain optimization, predictive maintenance, and advanced quality and workforce management for the resiliency, agility and adaptation needed for world-beating manufacturing today.

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Wholesale and Distribution ERP Solution

Distributors today need wide connectivity with various sales channels, advanced inventory management, solid financial analytics, and supply chain flexibility.

Our prepackaged ERP solution for distributors comes with extended warehouse management and automation, advanced supply chain analytics, interconnectivity with supplier and ecommerce systems, and deep financial controls for handling diverse tariff and taxation conditions.

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Professional Services ERP Solution

Professional services businesses need coordination and visibility for managing the full service process from selling and plan engagement, recruitment and allocation, procurement, work and delivery, and forecasting and billing.

Our prepackaged industry solution for professional services organizations helps bring real-time accounting and in-depth analytical solutions to an organization to plan, execute, and control profitable projects. It provides the data-driven insight to effectively allocate the right resources to the right projects while delivering advanced billing capabilities such as product and service packages.

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See if a Prepackaged Industry Solution is Right for Your Business

Learn more about our prepackaged industry solutions by talking with one of our experienced ERP consultants. We love talking shop!

You can reach our US-based consultants by calling (801) 642-0123 or writing us at info@nbs-us.com.