Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), has its origins in manufacturing and production planning systems. The scope of ERP encompasses the entire value chain of the enterprise and includes functions such as order management, financial management, warehousing, distribution production, quality control, asset management and human resources management. In the recent past, the range of functionality has been further expanded to include more functions, such as sales force and marketing automation, electronic commerce and supply chain systems.

Integration

ERP allows a considerable amount of integration between different divisions of the business. For example, marketing, accounting, purchase, warehousing… With the implementation of ERP system becoming more and more complex, customers are considering end-to-end ERP outsourcing as the best way to unleash the power of an ERP system, with minimum risk and maximum functionality.

Implementation

The implementation of an ERP system involves a complex set of tasks, from selection and system design, to installation, tuning, maintenance and up gradation. The core set of technologies and capabilities needed to accomplish these tasks is often not obtainable in-house, due to high costs and lack of resources.

Hence, customers outsource expertise while controlling costs and still are able to implement and maintain a strategic ERP system. The benefits of ERP outsourcing can be enormous, depending on the company, its business model, and the scope of its internal IT requirement and budget.

RAIT in ERP

Our objective is to provide end-to-end solutions. We first do a mapping of the customers' needs and their business journey. Our domain expertise consulting studies aid us in this exercise. From here, we arrive at all the relevant IT management needs. The various 'interfaces' and how best to integrate them.

In this process, we put to work Our comprehensive and cross-functional skills to help re-engineer the customer's IT environment. Wherever necessary, we innovate and improvise the methodologies to suit the customers' culture. Acting as 'change agents' we interact with the customer's teams and ensure smooth and effective knowledge transfer. Our role in many instances has been that of a blender - or management consulting and IT solutions.