ERP Consultants for Your Health: 3 Needs Assessment Examples

I was in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when I began to think how meeting with an ERP consultant for a free needs assessment is much more fun than visiting a doctor for a checkup.  Have you worked with an ERP consultant to help maximize the efficiency, productivity and profitability of your business?  An ERP consultant is much like a doctor who will help diagnose the health of your business and recommend ERP solutions or training of staff to help your business run more smoothly.  Unlike most doctors, an ERP consultant will typically offer you a free needs assessment for 30 to 60 minutes to assess your situation and see how they can help.  The best thing about an ERP consultant is there are no needles involved!  How is a needs assessment like a checkup at the doctor’s office?  

Have you ever noticed that the people working at most doctor’s offices so cheerful?  Why do doctor’s offices seem like such pleasant places to work?  It’s a clean environment with music playing all day long and everyone has the right tools for the job.  The doctor has all the education, training and experience to know what tools to use and how to use them in a way that will help measure your physical well-being.  This is exactly what an ERP consultant does to assess the fitness of your business: using tested formulas to collect and sort the data into valuable information, a needs assessment will help to diagnose what software system would be best help your business.  You would not expect a doctor to prescribe a new type of medicine without an examination would you?  Here are the three ways that a needs assessment with an ERP consultant can help recommend the best software to make your business healthy, happy and productive.

1. A place for everything, and everything in its place
• It is easy to perform the task at hand when only the tools you need are easy to access. You would not expect to walk into the check up room and find the doctor shuffling through a pile of unnecessary objects?  The nurse comes into the room and places each piece of equipment he will need to use for the specific procedure as needed.  There are many ways to calculate the health of your business and an ERP consultant is equipped to help you find the most effective and necessary tools for each specific job.
2. Goodbye stress, hello productivity 
• Quickbooks, for example, recently added multi-warehouse capability which now enables users to track inventory at multiple warehouses.  How do you know if your business would benefit from such an upgrade?  Is this the right multi-warehouse enhancement or do you need something more?  You probably don't have the time to research all the software enhancement options available and would benefit from talking to someone who has experience with many software options in working with hundreds of ERP software customers over the years.  Our ERP VAR consultants are highly trained and certified professionals in the accounting software industry who can offer recommendations and advice from a knowledge base of years of experience.  They can help your business grow as your trusted advisor and help explain the benefits of making the right kind of change for your business.
3. Room to grow
• The doctor's office is a great example how businesses can be much more efficient by changing over to a paperless office by implementing a document management system.  Now doctors and office staff can find critical patient informations with a simple shortcut keystroke of Ctrl+F.  This elimiates all the time and expense wasted filing, finding and storing patient records.  Think of the time and trees saved with this change.  If you are like most businesses, you may not know what kind of solution you need to improve your business processes.  This is where the ERP consultant can help, by collecting the data during their free needs assessment or “exam” which will determine which ERP software options will best improve your operations.  In order to find the best paperless document management system, for example, it makes sense to consult a professional.  Our ERP consultants offer you a free needs assessment where they can learn more about how to solve your busienss challenges.  In addition, we host live free weekly webcasts to enhance your understanding of 3rd party enhancement options available in your industry.

Schedule your free needs assessment or checkup today!  Find a local ERP consultant at www.ERPVAR.com.  Our website is a place where customers who are considering making changes to their ERP software can find local ERP consultants or review options to enhancements for their existing ERP software.  For our ERP consultants, our site is a guest blogging website designed to help ERP software consultants show their expertise and help make connections with customers looking for solutions.  Our staff has over 30 years combined experience working with ERP software consultants.  We understand the value ERP software consultants offer their customers and we understand the value to customers to feel comfortable with an introduction to ERP software consultants.  To build trust takes time and we have the relationships with ERP consultants.  Our ERP consultants represent Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP, Sage 500 ERP, Sage ERP X3, Epicor©, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX, Dynamics SL, NetSuite, NetSuite  QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, QuickBooks Enterprise, Acumatica, Infor, Intacct and more.  Each ERP software consultant adds another piece of value to the ERPVAR puzzle.  Inquire today to find a match for your business! 

ERP VAR Blog Authors: Heidi Schoendorfer and Kathy Graham

by Kathy Graham