The vision behind implementing an ERP system is to create a single centralised system that manages a multi-national business in a globalised environment. This centralised system contains a single source for all data and a single source for all information. Creating a single-system spanning different cultures, languages, currencies and structures provides the business with a single view. This single view operates in parallel to reduce costs, increase visibility and optimise all areas of modern global organisation. Centralised business information at the fingertips of organisational leaders and management, an analogy long strived for but seldom achieved.
Implementation Partners of ERP systems often dismiss the ‘One Business Concept™’ as being unobtainable, proclaiming that the organisation must adopt standardised strategies and interfaces to fuel its ERP solution. This view causes the link between the organisation and its ERP solution to be severed, creating a strategic malfunction inevitably leading to an inefficient and ineffective costly ‘non-solution’.