Why implementation of MNC ERP products costly and time consuming undertaking for SMEs?

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Major MNC ERP products are SINGLE LARGE system designed for multiple types of businesses, addressing several types of business practices, with hundred types of business scenarios. Being a highly configurable system, they are popular in market.

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If you are evaluating a MNC ERP system, here are some questions to ponder:

• What does it take to configure the system?
• Who can switch on or off few thousands parameters?
• ?Someone, who will do that, understands your business?
• How much time and cost will ensue?
• ?What if changes may be required later?

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Answering some of the questions above, we may realize the underlying reasons why huge cost and time is required to configure those ERPs.?

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These being renowned names, we all are assured that this system can't go wrong. However, prime focus should be: is your organization ready for the exhaustive system?

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It is like buying Boeing 747 instead of a Executive Jet and cutting it down to required size by spending huge money and time.

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So if you are an SME in the turnover range of INR 500 CR, you should opt for an ERP product designed for your domain, where same vendor takes responsibility of Product, Training, Implementation, Customization, Support, Upgrades etc.