{"id":4172,"date":"2021-06-08T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:54:46","slug":"erp-for-small-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/erp-for-small-business-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"ERP for Small Business that Scales to Support Your Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bottom Line:<\/strong>\u00a0 An ERP for small business makes the most of every growth opportunity by improving end-to-end visibility across every shop floor while controlling costs, production schedules, and delivery dates, freeing up more time for short-notice production runs.<\/p>\n

Offering short-notice production runs to customers is one of the most proven strategies for growing a small to midsize manufacturing business at scale. To become competitively strong enough to do that, small and midsize manufacturers need to have end-to-end visibility of their shop floors combined with real-time production and process monitoring data. The insights from real-time production and process data provide the most valuable information across production. That\u2019s not possible to achieve just using Microsoft Excel as a production scheduler and QuickBooks for\u00a0financials<\/a>. A sure sign it\u2019s time to migrate away from those personal productivity tools to an\u00a0ERP system<\/a>\u00a0when QuickBooks crashes because of too many transactions and fails to scale and keep up with growth, so there\u2019s no visibility into how shop floor decisions drive bottom-line results.\u00a0DELMIAworks ERP<\/a>\u00a0is purpose-built for small and midsize manufacturing businesses to take on these challenges and more and keep growing.<\/p>\n

Gaining Scale & Speed With an ERP for Small Business that Provides End-To-End Visibility<\/h3>\n

Knowing how each production decision impacts profits, including how\u00a0Capable-To-Promise<\/a>\u00a0commitments change and impact which short-notice production runs are available in real-time, makes any business more competitive. There\u2019s always the chance to turn time into a competitive advantage for small and mid-tier manufacturers over their larger, slower-moving competitors.<\/p>\n

Turning speed into a competitive strength starts with end-to-end visibility.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Speed, exceptional product and service quality, and a reputation for customer responsiveness are among the strongest competitive weapons any small to midsize manufacturer has today. Outflanking and outrunning competitors can only happen if there\u2019s accurate end-to-end visibility. Not relying on 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0party connectors or adapters to keep shop floor teams up to date on orders alleviates production downtime from systems not communicating with each other.\u00a0 The purpose-built design of the\u00a0DELMIAworks ERP platform<\/a>\u00a0and its support for 28 pre-built manufacturing types have evolved over decades of development to provide shop floor to top floor visibility and control of manufacturing operations. It\u2019s the only platform with its ERP and\u00a0Manufacturing Execution System<\/a>\u00a0(MES) integrated, relying on a single database for all applications.<\/p>\n

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Scaling Up For Growth\u2019s Challenges \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The faster a small to midsize manufacturer wants to grow, the more they\u2019ll face the challenges of taking on more complex projects and the transactions that go with them. Choosing which complex projects to take on and which to let go of is key in growing any manufacturing business. Relying on Excel or QuickBooks alone isn\u2019t going to deliver those insights.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the combination of financial and real-time production reporting in\u00a0DELMIAworks<\/a>\u00a0can help simplify the decision by identifying which types of projects are the best fit for a given production center. Add to that support for\u00a0multi-site financial reporting and analysis<\/a>, and the accurate scale of DELMIAworks to help small and midtier manufacturers scale up is straightforward. \u00a0Additional ways\u00a0DELMIAworks ERP<\/a>\u00a0can help any small to midsize business achieve greater scale with more accurate, adaptive, and financially sound intelligence include the following:<\/p>\n