Depending on your industry and the specific back office needs of your growing small to mid-sized firm, Oracle ERP modules may be able to offer you the functionality and cost cutting measures you need to move your enterprise forward during challenging times. If you’re looking for affordable integrated business solution capabilities in comprehensive suites that are upgrade ready and designed to grow as your business grows, you may want to investigate Oracle ERP modules, which now include products sold under the J.D. Edwards brand.

ERP Modules

Oracle ERP Modules

Oracle ERP modules can cover a wide range of both general and industry specific functionalities. Some of these include back office tools for accounting, supply chain management, customer relationship management, human capital management, inventory control including warehousing and lot tracking, and payroll. If you’re currently running each of these functions on an independent platform, you may want to upgrade your legacy system with a fully integrated EP business solution supported by Oracle so you can do more with less and expand your company’s domestic and global reach.

At this point, the direction of Oracle ERP modules, including the expense, support infrastructures and capabilities of various products, reflects a broad trend moving across the general enterprise resource planning market landscape. Over the course of the last six or seven years, products and services have been steadily coming within reach for smaller and mid-sized firms. Infrastructure options have become more diverse and product modules have expanded in capability, efficiency and reliability while steadily decreasing in cost. There are several converging circumstances that provide explanations for this trend, and as you begin your in-depth exploration of Oracle ERP modules, it may help to understand some of these changes in a broader context.

The earliest enterprise resource planning systems were introduced in the manufacturing sector in the early 1990s and late 1980s. These early systems allowed company managers to coordinate complex diverse functions that took place on factory shop floors, like scheduling, ordering and assembly. Many of these tasks required input from multiple departments, but prior to the arrival of integrated systems, businesses typically ran each of their separate departments and business teams on independent software platforms.

Once these independent legacy platforms were replaced by integrated ERP and MRP infrastructures, all teams and departments could run standardized modules from the same core architecture, which they could also use to house shared databases that could be accessed and updated in real time. Because of the efficiency and productivity improvements they generated, demand for ERP systems rose quickly, both within and beyond the manufacturing sector. But early systems were cumbersome and expensive, so for many years, in spite of their popularity, they remained out of reach for all but the largest firms with the highest technology budgets and the highest tolerance for risk.

This began to change soon after the arrival of the new millennium. As demand cooled at the high budget level, developers and providers focused new energy and attention on gaining a foothold among smaller and mid-sized enterprises, leading to the rise of increasingly streamlined modules and offsite architectures.

Written by :

Amy Cruz