The defining element in the success or failure of an ERP implementation is mainly one of project management. The presenter draws on observation, past experience and research to build a best practice based strategy, or approach that will lead to a successful ERP implementation experience.

Most of the times organization have seen ERP projects fail for the following reasons:

Tally is well known product for accounting software. But when it comes in ERP there are few pros and cons, which you must know. After an effective application of Tally 9, there were still a few problems that were experienced. User conflicts due to multi-users of the system were thought to be permanent.

The major disadvantage of Tally ERP is- it starts from accounting whereas business starts from sales. Even tally has faced so many problems to launch Tally ERP. They want to give same flexibility in their ERP like Tally accounting software, because Tally existing customers have the same expectations.

Successful implementation is based on your selection of ERP. If you are searching the right ERP software package for your organization and need to know how to select right ERP? What would be ERP initiative? Is your organization will be benefited with new ERP? Then you have come to the right place.

In this article, we will discuss the planning for a successful ERP implementation experience and our first question is when should implementation planning begin? ERP implementation planning should begin at the first stage of any business process reengineering or information technology strategy that might rely on an ERP system.

What this really means is that planning for the successful enterprise resource planning software implementation experience begins mainly during the definition of your business requirements and the evaluation of enterprise software packages that will meet these requirements.

Microsoft, SAP and Infor are the leader in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). ERP software revolution ushered in an era of data centralization and seamless flow of integrated information within the organizations. Today, from small, medium to big companies belonging to diverse fields use ERP software to efficiently and cost effectively manage their information and business processes in lesser time.

An array of ERP software is available in the market but before choosing any of those you must know which would be the best and easiest for you to install and operate. You will be in a better position to find out which ERP would fulfill all your needs if have clearly defined your requirements beforehand. Lastly, you must analyze what extra benefits the new ERP would give you over your existing management system.

1. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

NetSuite Exact Syspro Accpac Epicor and Excel ERP system have capabilities to centralize all business process into single database and provide better control. Read brief information about all these enterprise software below:

1. Net suite

Net suite ERP solution is one of its kinds. It is the only on-demand ERP solution which can manage and control back-office operations. It is an all-inclusive business suite that can support operations like financials, order fulfillment, purchasing, inventory, time and billing, payroll, employee self-service, Web presence, etc. It is best suited to diverse enterprises and nonprofit organizations, which need to customize their systems for specific needs. It can be installed immediately.

2. Exact Software

SAP Business One (B1) has more than 10 thousand installations worldwide. In India, SAP B1has some implementation, localization and customization challenges. SAP B1 is purchased from Israel based company, SAP B1 has such nice features as Multilanguage in one database/company, multicurrency, MRP, Production, Manufacturing, Service Management, CRM, integration with MS Office on COM level, Drag and Relate. SAP B1 is required Microsoft SQL Server database platform.

Localization: Tax structure in India is a hassle for any ERP vendor. SAP B1 is designed effectively; SAP B1 object model structure still required a lot of development efforts to localize SAP B1 tax structure to Indian tax code. SAP has a global strategy, while developing Indian tax structure. It plans to use the same flexible construction to adopt/localize SAP B1 to other market like Brazil, where we have similar issues (uniqueness of the tax code).

Microsoft Navision is specially designed for SME (Small and Medium Size Enterprises). It fulfills all basic requirements and needs of SME. Cost and time is the key area for any SME. They are more concern about cost and time for ERP software Implementation. Navision standard implementation takes lesser time as compare to other branded ERP for SME. But for rich implementation organization has to pay a lot because customization is expensive in Navision. Customization required so many changes that require some man hours. Putting man hours in any work will increase the project budget.

Navision should be considered as mature products. It has more than 10 years of successful presence in the ERP market. Navision Software was Denmark based Software Development Company which was bought by Microsoft in the beginning of 21st century. Navision has a strong presence in the US market and Europe market. Now they are very aggressive for Asia market and Gulf market.

Manufacturing is defined as the transformation of raw materials into finished goods or product for sale by using machines and processing systems. In order to manage manufacturing processes, a software based production, purchasing, shipment planning and inventory control system called Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP), has been developed. From this system, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), a method for the effective planning of all resources like men, machine and materials of a manufacturing company, has been derived. And from MRP II, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has evolved.

ERP integrate all the business functions into one database. It supports business organization needs and improves the business processes including strategic planning, management control and operational control. It also operates across functional departments and their particular activities. Cross functional activity is very important part of ERP. It reduces paper work and job completion time with full control.

Enterprise resource planning is a system that integrates all functional department including planning, production planning, sales, HR, Finance, Purchase, Inventory etc. Earlier, ERP packages were not designed to support customization, but nowadays customizations are available nearly in all ERP packages.

For a company it is really a tough job to select right ERP. Selection of ERP software is a critical issue. Only key member can select the right ERP for the organization who has a minimum 5-6 years of experience in management level. At the time of selection we should focus on implementation and customization part, timeframe for implementation, cost and time for the customization.