{"id":7207,"date":"2018-11-06T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2021-07-27T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:35:04","slug":"why-manufacturers-need-flexible-erp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/why-manufacturers-need-flexible-erp","title":{"rendered":"Why Manufacturers Need a Flexible ERP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7212&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manufacturers are operating in a highly competitive business world marked by constant changes in consumer demand as well as competitive and regulatory environments. Customers are demanding better services and products at lower prices and changing the way they consume them. New and non-traditional competitors are entering the marketplace, shifting the competitive landscape and challenging the status quo. In addition, manufacturers must also deal with changing governmental regulations such as increased <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/us-tariffs-supply-chain-design-tools-may-not-be-enough\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tariffs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and new financial reporting requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to survive and thrive in this rapidly changing business environment, manufacturers must be able to exhibit operational flexibility across their enterprise-wide business processes. Since manufacturers rely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/what-is-erp\">Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)<\/a> solutions to effectively manage their operational processes, a <strong>flexible ERP<\/strong> is an essential requirement to meet these ongoing changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Flexible ERP: Why It&#8217;s Important For Manufacturers<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A flexible ERP system is a modern Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) system that enables an organization to adapt, change, and grow in a scalable way over time. This ability to grow allows flexible ERP to function as a modern, next-generation ERP system that can provide a competitive advantage in manufacturing businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexible ERP and Adaptive Manufacturing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically, traditional ERP solutions are based on specific functional requirements that reflect the existing business environment at the time of implementation. But, as the marketplace and business environment changes, so do the processes a manufacturer relies upon to meet those changes. Without a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flexible ERP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the advantages that an ERP solution provides, in terms of optimizing a manufacturer\u2019s operational effectiveness, will be lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically, ERPs tend to fail to keep up with the market along a well-worn cycle that starts with a shift in the business environment requiring changes in a manufacturers\u2019 operational processes. Traditional ERP is not flexible enough to adapt to the process change, so in order to meet the new requirements, internal organizational functions will develop a series of manual processes or workarounds. These often utilize other technologies such as spreadsheets or third party solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the marketplace continues to change, the gap between the processes implemented in the traditional ERP solution and the changing needs of a manufacturer grows. Over time, the ERP can no longer provide a single version of the truth, leading to an erosion of trust in the system. Rather than trusting the ERP, departments will develop new workarounds or manual processes to meet these changing business demands. This dynamic reduces a manufacturers\u2019 ability to effectively respond to increased changes in the business environment, resulting in poor operational performance and putting these companies at a competitive disadvantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Flexible ERP is a Key to Success in the Manufacturing Industry<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s where a flexible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/manufacturing-erp\">manufacturing ERP<\/a> comes into play. A flexible ERP software allows manufacturers to respond to ongoing changes in their business and regulatory environment. Manufacturers no longer need to worry about the ability of their information systems to put process changes into practice. A cloud-based, flexible ERP allows a company to easily change and extend business process across the enterprise. A flexible ERP also significantly reduces and eliminates the need for ungainly manual processes and workarounds to meet business change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s highly competitive marketplace <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/constant-manufacturing-change\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">change is the only constant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and it is accelerating. Meeting the needs of the current business environment is not sufficient when considering an ERP solution. In order to thrive in today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s market, manufacturers need a flexible ERP vendor that supports the ability to rapidly respond to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you consider your ERP solution to be flexible enough to adapt to a world of constant changes? 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