Systems in Small Business

SMALL ENTERPRISES

In the last decades setting up new SME (Small and Micro Entrepreneur) around the world has been an option to overcome economical difficulties. Micro entrepreneurs are characterised for those companies with less of 10 employees while small entrepreneurs have less than 50 employees.

Many companies started as Micro and have been climbing up because had get good results and now they can be small or maybe medium entrepreneurs. This situation has created the necessity to implement a system which will help to support business.

The ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is software which allows integrating application to manage a business. There are some applications such as MRP (Manufacturing resource planning), SCM (Supply change Management), HRM (Human Research management), CRM (customer relationship management).

The ERP offers many options for enterprises because is possible to get every module or application for separate and after depends of the requirements of the organization acquire the other ones.

When a company decided change the way that they are driving their business to an option where they can apply Information technology and systems, is important to identify key factors in the company to choose the best option. These key factors should be technological infrastructure, budget, possibility to migrate data, and so on.

Some of the advantages for an enterprise when they implemented a Information system are: Improve profitability through better allocation of resources, reduce risk because allows tracking of process, adequate use of the customer information and others.