The finance department nowadays is no longer the traditional finance department. Of course, you still need to be responsible for all traditional financial work. But with the constantly changing business environment, the role and responsibilities of the finance department are also changing:
This is a good trend, a good opportunity, and an important gateway for you to continue promoting the development of the enterprise. However, without the help of modern cloud technology stacks, the finance department can only use outdated tools to meet future needs. In fact, nearly two-thirds of financial executives stated that their current ERP or financial systems:
● Cannot support business growth through expansion
● Does not support cloud operation
● No ongoing supplier maintenance service
● Unable to consolidate data for report preparation
This means that the technical tools that were supposed to save you time have not been effective. You are still busy with financial settlement, accounts receivable/payable/accrual project management, revenue accounting, and reconciliation, and cannot focus on fulfilling your new responsibilities.
1.Can this ERP solution provide a unified source of financial data?Ensure that you can:
● Eliminate data silos without the need to cross check data from multiple sources.
● Accessing the same financial data across the entire enterprise, creating a consistent reporting process, and accelerating audit speed.
2.Can this ERP solution provide real-time financial insights?
Ensure that the solution you choose:
● Support real-time settlement and continuous accounting.
● Support accessing financial and management reports before settlement.
● Support automated recording to reporting process, making final settlement faster and easier.
3.Can this ERP solution effectively manage cash flow?Ensure that you can:
● Timely understanding of cash positions and optimizing cash management.
● Improve the accuracy of cash forecasting.
● Use automatic invoice matching function to accelerate invoice processing.
4.Will this ERP system adopt excellent practices?Ensure that the solution you choose:
● By using the Excellent Practice Template, it is easy to adopt and accelerate standard financial processes.
● Meet industry-specific requirements.
● Support specific processes of the enterprise itself.
5.Can this ERP solution help us enter new markets?Ensure that the solution you choose:
● Provide out of the box regional accounting standards and business practices.
● Easy support for multiple currencies and languages.
6.Can this ERP solution make it easier for us to manage multiple entities? You need to be able to:
● Quickly add newly acquired or divested entities to the financial system.
● Easily perform accounting for multiple entities, including settlement and consolidation.
7.Can this ERP solution provide more effective financial planning and analysis capabilities?This solution should help you:
● Real time insights based on interactive dashboards and reports.
● Analyze performance through simulation, hypothetical scenarios, and predictive analysis.
● Share financial plans and insights across the entire enterprise.
8.Can this ERP solution help us expand increasingly complex processes?This solution should be able to:
●Adapt to organizational changes involving complex financial processes, such as multiple reporting standards, consolidation, and predictive accounting processes.
9.Can this ERP solution meet the future development needs of enterprises?Ensure that the solution you choose:
● Support easy and fast addition of advanced features.
● Fully utilize the extensive network of partner experts.
● Provide the latest technology and outstanding practical innovation achievements.
Contact SAP partners to find the right solution for you
To better cope with the constantly changing business environment, please carefully choose the ERP solution that suits you. The GROW with SAP solution is a comprehensive cloud product portfolio designed specifically to help businesses successfully transform. It not only provides a range of advanced ERP solutions, but also includes accelerated adoption services, community support, and abundant learning resources to ensure that enterprises can smoothly implement and fully utilize ERP cloud software.
The advantage of GROW with SAP lies in its high flexibility and strong scalability, which can meet the needs of enterprises of different sizes and industries. Both startups and large multinational corporations can find suitable solutions for their development stages through GROW with SAP.
Choosing GROW with SAP as your ERP solution not only enables standardization and automation of internal processes within the enterprise, promoting efficient information flow, but also leverages SAP’s powerful ecosystem to gain strong support in data security, technological innovation, and other areas, helping to drive sustained business growth.
As a platinum level partner officially certified by SAP, Acloudier has over ten years of experience in SAP cloud ERP services. With rich practice in industries such as automotive parts, medical equipment, high-tech, e-commerce, and equipment manufacturing, Acloudier is committed to providing high-quality ERP cloud solutions and pan cloud ecological innovation solutions for global enterprises. Not only does it have rich project implementation experience, but it also has comprehensive service capabilities, which can help enterprises quickly deploy and optimize SAP systems, thereby accelerating business transformation and improving operational efficiency.
Choose Acloudier as your SAP project partner
Your enterprise can obtain:
Professional project management:
Ensure that every stage of the project is completed on time and with quality.
In depth industry insights:
Based on a deep understanding of your industry, provide the most suitable solution for you.
Perfect customer success:
From system design to continuous maintenance after launch, we accompany you throughout the process to ensure smooth and unobstructed every step, helping your business to continue to develop steadily.
Cost effectiveness of optimization:
Help you maximize investment returns while reducing overall cost of ownership.
This article "Did you choose the right ERP? Key Questions to Ask Before Evaluating ERP Solutions" by AcloudEAR. We focus on business applications such as cloud ERP.
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