Educational Management Information System (EMIS)

Evolution of EMIS

The revolution in the information and communication technologies (ICTs) has greatly influenced the life style of whole world.  ICTs has a proven role in the field of medical, business, industry, entertainment, communications but now these technologies has emerging efficient role in education field. In developing countries, education sector is one of the core areas that require more attention for the country’s rapid development. The goal of every educational institution is to provide the quality education to all of its students. In these institutes management at all level continuous strives to achieve this aimed goal. Universities are hiring highly qualified professors and equipping their scientific laboratories with latest equipment’s, adding new technologies and books to their libraries.… Read the rest

ERP Software Cost

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages are very expensive. Let us be clear. If you have already have some system or not, once you decide to go for ERP, you need to plan well. The entire project cost is not the only the ERP Software cost. It includes hardware, software, implementation, consultation charges, sensitizing employees to ERP and training them. Hence, if you come across some one indicating only the ERP software cost, do not get carried away.

Every ERP implementation needs careful planning. Once the Enterprise identifies a few specific ERP software, ERP companies or their consultants may be asked to give you some presentation as to why should their ERP software be bought.… Read the rest

ERP Tutorial

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation needs lot of attention and dedication from all the concerned. The top management role is generally limited to the approval of the ERP package and taking care of ERP budgets. The top management identifies a person as ‘Champion’ to take the decisions as required. Once the company decides to go for a specific ERP, all the employees who are likely to be affected shall be taken into confidence and each of the end user shall be provided with ERP tutorial for their function. While there are more than one standard ERP tutorial, it may be better for the consulting company or the company’s IT department to device their own tutorial.… Read the rest

ERP Support and Maintenance

You have some decent computerized applications running in your enterprise. But you feel that you are actually leveraging the benefits of automation. Your inventory levels have not come down and items in slow moving category are on the rise. You are not getting the required Management Information Reports (MIS) as you would like to get. You realize that it is time to have a fresh look at your systems. You may approach a company that offers ERP consultancy as well as ERP support services. Generally these kinds of companies have expertise in business process re-engineering, project life cycle management. They may offer ERP support services like Enterprise Information Technology Policy, Planning, Requirements Analysis, Product configuration, Product Integration, Test and Evaluation etc.… Read the rest

ERP Review Process

Every company in today’s world will have some automation or other. Accounting packages are the first to be implemented. And the sales order processing is automated so that their clients and suppliers can access the data. It helps to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), which allows the entire company to automate all its division/locations. In 1980s, ERP was available only to large industries who could afford the huge expenditure. Many ERP vendors have done their own ERP Review and have developed ERP solutions to different markets.

Any thinking of implementing ERP system shall have three stages of ERP Review process – Pre-implementation, Implementation and Post-implementation review.… Read the rest

ERP Process

Enterprise Resource Planning software offers you many modules which are tightly integrated with each other. The modules handle all functions related to engineering, Sales, planning, materials, manufacturing, finance, HR etc. Multiple locations can be seamlessly integrated into a single ERP System.

Process is nothing but a systematic flow of work done. Process management is defined as the collection of activities corresponding to the planning and observing the effectiveness of a certain business process. This is true to ERP process too. ERP implementation some times calls for cultural changes in the enterprise. Typically ERP process has the following stages. Strategic planning, Readiness assessment, Vendor assessment and selection, Plan for Implementation, Implementation and post Implementation Assessment.… Read the rest