How small business can benefit

‘Streamlining Operations’ is the most important advantage of the ERP system, whether its small business or larger corporations. The other major advantage being available of the whole enterprise data, when you need it most. Some of the other benefits listed down.

• Elimination of duplicate entry. SMB’s traditionally uses different applications for different process and also lot of excel spreadsheets. For example an accounting package, maintaining inventory levels in excel spreadsheet is common occurrence in Small businesses. By using ERP all the processes can be integrated and the data entry needs to be done in only once and it also reduce lot of Data entry errors

• Since its OpenSource, Licensing costs are nil and the most important thing you need to consider is as your company grows you will be hiring more employees it also means you need more licenses. Software companies have found this and have found an innovative way to tax your revenues. This they do by offering volume licenses which are limited by number of users.

• Since its OpenSource the code is available for you to edit so it’s very flexible with respect to your business process as you can add the functionality which is missing at any point of time.

• ERP systems are scalable as and when your business grows or you acquired new business you should be still be able to use the same system. This will save your company a lot of dollars considering the licensing fees and the additional hardware need.

• In ERP you can perform the whole array of operations in an enterprise like Sales, Purchasing, CRM, Inventory, HRMS, Accounting, Manufacturing etc.

KTree can help you in advising which the best OpenSource ERP software is for your company and implement it. KTree is headed by Mr. Ismail Shaik, who is a SAP consultant by profession, has 10 years of experience in SAP SD, MM PP and FICO modules. He has worked for Fortune 100 Companies in North American and Asia Pacific regions. KTree provides the following services in OpenSource ERP.