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It is normal to expect phase two of your Corporate ERP system implementation to be done by alternative consulting firm

. It might be not realistic to expect from original ERP reseller to be equally good in such technologies as Barcode scanning, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management System and Ecommerce integration. At the same time initial generic implementation requires consulting firm to maintain headcount of certified functional consultants and provide heavy workload for these professionals. Typical workload is ERP installation, user training, initial data conversion and support during first month or two of going into production phase. But going beyond these typical consulting routines might be not something very attractive for your original software reseller. Lets try to take a look at so-called secondary ERP consulting market and its demands and projects:

1.Interface customization. We assume that you did your homework in the future accounting system selection and you have chosen the application with maximum functionality fit and respectively with relatively low level of required custom programming. And now it is the time to invite specializing software development organization sometimes referred as Software Development Factory to do the job

2.Integration with Legacy Database or Application. Integration should be conceptually separated from the term customization as here you typically have the option to deploy integration tools and possibly do the job without coding. Most of the mid-market ERP systems have both Integration tool and Software Development Kit. In SDK you can program so-called real time integration triggered by something like ecommerce customer credit card payment where integration tool is typically scheduled or launched on demand

3.Barcoding and RFID technologies. Here you have several challenges and the first one to mention is barcode label printing upon merchandise receiving. The second one to mention would be opening ERP user interface for interaction with barcode scanner. This second challenge is often associated with Warehouse Management System or WMS in abbreviation. We have to mention here that modern Barcoding is very advanced with such features as batch mode scanning and following documents upload. In order to support batch mode documents upload your accounting system often requires third party module or custom coding

4.POS terminals. Here again we are talking about expanding your ERP system to cover functionality typically found in specialized applications in our example Point of Sale Terminals. It seems to be natural just to install your ERP user interface on the computer serving as cash register. Well the life and technology are not that simple and you have to support credit card processing (good idea is to deploy Cherry keyboard with CC and Debit Card swiping), USB Barcode scanner, Customer Tabloid and probably Credit Card Signature capture and printing out on the receipt

5.EDI or Electronic Document Interchange. If your EDI requirements are diversified and you have to comply with various EDI protocols, then you should consider professional EDI package acquisition and implementation. There is the stream of customers for whom professional EDI package is too expensive as its software license cost might be comparable to your initial Corporate ERP software licenses investment. It is relatively simple to program EDI integration on the level of SQL Server Stored Procedure with precisely formatted SQL Select statement

by: Andrew Karasev

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