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Unlock Agility and Efficiency Without Overhauling Your Core ERP
That sinking feeling. You invested in a powerful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, envisioning streamlined operations and seamless data flow. Instead, you’re met with frustration at every turn. Making even minor changes feels like a monumental task, requiring lengthy lead times, exorbitant consultancy fees, and the constant fear of destabilising your core business system. Sound familiar?
You’re not alone. Many growing retail businesses, whether pureplay eCommerce, multichannel, wholesale, or even direct-to-consumer (DTC), find themselves shackled by their ERP, a system that was meant to be an enabler but has become a bottleneck. The pain points are often multifaceted:
- Slow Implementation of Changes: Even seemingly simple modifications can require significant time and effort from internal IT or external consultants, delaying crucial updates and hindering your ability to adapt quickly to market demands.
- Lengthy and Complex Processes: Navigating the ERP for everyday tasks can be cumbersome and inefficient, requiring multiple steps and frustrating your team on the ground.
- High Costs of Customisation: Mainstream ERP systems often require extensive and expensive customisation to truly fit your unique business processes, leading to budget overruns and a complex web of modifications.
- System Instability: Continuous changes and customisations over time can introduce instability, increasing the risk of errors, downtime, and data integrity issues.
- Performance Degradation: As more customisations and data accumulate, the ERP system can become slow and sluggish, impacting overall productivity and responsiveness.
- Limited Agility: The rigidity of a heavily customised ERP can make it difficult to adopt new technologies or integrate with innovative peripheral solutions that could significantly enhance your operations.
- User Frustration: When the ERP is difficult to use and hinders rather than helps their daily tasks, your team becomes frustrated, leading to decreased morale and potential errors.
The frustration is understandable. You need agility, efficiency, and the ability to implement improvements quickly and cost-effectively. You need solutions that empower your team on the floor without requiring a constant, expensive, and potentially risky tinkering with your core ERP.
Creatum.com: Liberating Your Operations Without ERP Overhaul
At Creatum.com, we understand your ERP isn’t just software; it’s the central nervous system of your business. We also recognise that constantly trying to bend it to your every need can be a recipe for frustration and diminishing returns. That’s where our Outcome-as-a-Service approach offers a breath of fresh air.
Instead of advocating for a costly and disruptive ERP overhaul or endless customisations, we focus on understanding your specific business processes and the outcomes you want to achieve. We then strategically identify and seamlessly integrate the right peripheral and tightly integrable systems to enhance your operations in a very cost-effective way, leaving your core ERP largely untouched.
Here’s how we alleviate your ERP pain points and unlock agility:
- In-Depth Process Analysis: We start by thoroughly understanding your current business processes, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas where your ERP is causing the most friction.
- Practical Process Improvement: Before even considering technology, we work with your teams to identify practical ways to streamline and improve your existing processes, often uncovering quick wins that reduce reliance on complex ERP manoeuvres.
- Strategic Peripheral System Identification: We leverage our deep knowledge of best-of-breed, cloud-based peripheral systems that excel in specific areas like warehouse management, order management, customer relationship management, or business intelligence. These systems are chosen for their ease of integration and agility.
- Seamless Integration Expertise: Our team specialises in tightly integrating these peripheral systems with your existing ERP, ensuring a smooth flow of data and eliminating the need for manual data entry or complex workarounds within the ERP. We focus on robust and reliable integration methods.
- Cost-Effective Solution Delivery: By strategically implementing targeted peripheral solutions, we can often achieve the outcomes you desire at a fraction of the cost and time associated with major ERP customisations or upgrades.
- Enhanced Agility and Scalability: Peripheral cloud-based systems are typically more agile and scalable than monolithic ERPs, allowing you to adapt quickly to changing business needs and integrate new technologies with ease.
- Empowering Your Floor Teams: User-friendly peripheral systems designed for specific tasks can significantly improve the efficiency and satisfaction of your teams on the ground, without requiring them to navigate the complexities of the ERP for every minor action.
Reclaim Control and Agility: Enhance Your Operations the Smart Way with us
Stop wrestling with an ERP that feels like it’s holding you back. At Creatum.com, our Outcome-as-a-Service model offers a smarter, more cost-effective path to operational efficiency and agility. By focusing on process improvement and strategically integrating nimble peripheral systems, we can help you achieve the outcomes you need without the pain, cost, and risk of constant ERP manipulation.
Ready to liberate your operations and empower your teams? Contact Creatum.com today for a consultation and let’s explore how our OaaS can help you achieve your desired outcomes without the ERP headache.