As businesses evolve they tend to adopt more than one software system to manage their varied transaction flows and processes. Examples include:

• Financial Reporting
• Debtors and Creditors
• Inventory
• Manufacturing Systems
• Job Costing
• Time and Billing
• Payroll
• Human Resource Systems
• Point of Sale/Cash Registers
• Debtors Ledgers
• Procurement Systems
• Sales Force Management
• eCommerce and Web Sites
• Warehousing and Distribution
• Staff Expense Management
• Business Intelligence and Dashboards

There’s nothing inherently wrong with multiple systems, but every so often, it’s a worthwhile exercise to review these systems with a view to identifying inefficiencies. It may be possible to adopt or develop middle ware software that will automate the communication between disparate systems.

Examples include transferring time sheets from Job Costing or Time and Billing Systems directly into the Payroll. Or polling Point of Sale Cash Registers at regular intervals to provide turnover and profitability reports at head office.

There may come a time in the business life cycle however when the benefits of building additional middleware outweigh the costs of migrating to comprehensive integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) Systems.

If you would like assistance with reviewing your existing systems, please complete this questionnaire.