Does packaged software fit business needs well?
Many professionals perceive ERP as a paradox. “How can a software company located remotely understand the needs of my organisation operating in a distant location?” is the question they generally ask. Many of them feel that custom software should work far better than packaged software. For many of them holding this view, the success of ERP is a paradox. What they miss out is the point that the core processes of most organisations are by and large, the same. Thanks to globalisation, there has been a significant amount of uniformity, standardisation and simplification of the core processes across the industry. Some of the technologies such as EDI have even standardised the contents of critical documents, such as shipping and purchase orders. By pumping in billions of dollars in understanding the business processed used by thousands of corporations worldwide, the ERP software vendors also bring in world-class practices to any company that implements the ERP software. In a similar vein, la
