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Maximize NOI With the Right ERP for Property Management

Written by Navigator | Apr 6, 2023 2:00:00 PM

Net operating income (NOI) is a crucial metric for countless businesses. Using the right ERP for field services and property and equipment management to introduce automated recurring billing and income projections can significantly affect your profitability.

Implementing an ERP for professional services, for example, optimizes flexibility and allows managers and business leaders to gain insights, understand trends, make accurate projections and intelligent investment decisions.

SAP S/4 HANA is one of the most popular ERPs in the property management industry, used across office, industrial, mixed-use, and retail applications.

 

How Can ERP Software Boost Property Management Revenues?

Automation is a key theme in real estate management, strengthening business sales by adopting advanced technologies that improve productivity and streamline processes used across:

  • HR and payroll processing
  • Engineering
  • Accounting and finance controls
  • Sales, marketing and lead generation
  • Project management
  • Investment management

Property companies use ERP software to enhance lead generation, automate workflows and financial applications, using centralized systems to manage and organize procurement processes, outgoing and incoming payments, and client communications.

An effective ERP allows companies to manage multiple portfolios of properties in one central system while coordinating cost management exercises, forecasting, and budgeting, eliminating errors, downtime or manual administrative tasks that generate staffing overheads.  

Solving Property Management Sector Challenges With ERP Solutions

Real estate agents, developers, letting agents and other property market professionals deal with a continually changing landscape. Whether working as a brokerage, real estate lender or professional management service, many potential challenges exist.

Lack of traceability to track and progress contract delivery, poor sales processes, detailed real estate laws coupled with manual tasks, calculating deductibles and tax liabilities, and managing complexities such as title issues can make workflows slow and devolved between departments.

Comprehensive ERP suites help businesses to plan, predict, budget, report and organize each element of their business and projects, analyzing processes, recognizing inefficiencies, and improving agility to respond to changes in the market.

Which ERP Is the Best Fit for Real Estate Management Businesses?

The right ERP for your organization will depend on several variables, but SAP S/4 HANA is one of the leading packages powered by the SAP HANA database platform.

It is valuable for both commercial and corporate entities engaged in contracts, property management and leasing activities, collating data and analytics with a native integration process.

SAP Real Estate Software Suites

Companies can deploy the ERP through any interface with on-premises, cloud-based and private functionality, often combined with SAP Intelligent Real Estate or SAP Cloud for Real Estate. 

These software solutions are specifically designed for property management and have a broad range of capabilities:

  • Strategic portfolio analysis to drive sustainability, efficiency, and informed decision-making
  • Visibility of portfolio performance and occupancy rates across commercial, residential, and industrial properties
  • Contract management functionality, compliant with lease accounting government regulations
  • Space optimization planning, including considerations around property features, amenities, usage restrictions and architecture
  • Centralized business management for development planning, modernization planning and maintenance requirements

All these functions optimize asset usage, provide valued insights into portfolio performance, and reduce real estate management costs to boost your NOI and business growth.

A scalable ERP is an asset that can adapt immediately to changes in customer or client demand, the regulatory framework, and each stage of the realty process to help companies manage and examine data through advanced technological solutions.