From the start, the main activity of Step-Soft has always been the design, development and implementation of boutique systems, customized accourding to the needs of corporate clients, whose business model can not be served by any of the pre-configured products, available at the market.

How S-Office ERP offers best ROI (Return on Investment) 

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S-Office ERP as a system follows a three-layered model, allowing high-degree flexibility and configuration capabilities. This enables the consultants from Step-Soft to design a system that fits the needs, know-how and processes of each individual client. This is incomparably different from the pre-configured solutions, which to a large extent apply fixed, commonly accepted business models, depriving a company of its specific competitive advantages. When the system can fit to the individual processes and activity of the company, any lack of communication or information transfer between departments cease to be an obstacle to its growth. On the contrary, the additional information collected provides material that can be used for analysis and optimization for all aspects of company operation.

What is ERP?

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a term, used to identify a class of business software, which unite the information and documentation flow for all company activity. Depending on the business model, an ERP system should allow for different implementation, but the final goal should always be achieving maximum traceability, control and accountability on all levels of the company. Most often, an ERP system includes:

SCM (Supply Chain Management) - tracking goods from supply to sale, including purchase (import), production, sale and distribution (ExVan, consignment, export), POS terminals and/or E-Commerce system. Warehouse Management - tracking goods within the warehouses and between them, including address, mobile inspection terminals, material responisbility. Production - determine levels of material input, track different batches or serial numbers through production, control of key points (e.g. HACCP), production planning and reports, working with subcontractors Financial and accounting operations - control and accountancy of operational cash flows, automatic transfer of documents, settings for automatic accounting, creation of reports for the state administration, consolidation of reports for holding structures. Business analyses and planning - BI (Business Intelligence) functionality provided by unique means to determine future growth factors for each activity, due to the elaborate information in the database and real-time reports.

When is an ERP implementation essential?

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At a certain point in its development, a company reaches a state, in which the software for control and accountancy of business processes can only work if the concrete specifics for this company are covered by the system, some of which are impossible to find in a preconfigured software. Administration must have quick access to real-time information from all departments, as well as possess the tools to analyze the information, in order to make timely decisions and optimize the operational results and the growth of the company as a whole.

If you have asked yourself the following:

"Why, with all the XXI century technology, can't I quickly get to information about all goods being bought, transported, produced or sold?" "Why do we still have essential paper-only documentation?" "Why do employees still use Excel for some of the company activities?" "Why do we spend money and toners when all documents can be transferred electronically?" "Why do we adapt to the software instead of the software adapting to us?"

then your company is in need of a customized managerial system.

Preliminary Project Roadmap An important part of Step-Soft's team is comprised of consultants, whose main goal is understanding, analyzing, and describing the different processes that need to be covered by the ERP system, according to the client's need.   The Preliminary Project Roadmap will then lead to: optimization, semi or full automatization of certain processes targeting and accounting at critical control points  inclusion of process within the information system, which were not traceable before distributing and balancing data entry among the proper users of the system creating possibilities for financial analyses, based on the collected data implementing barcode and/or RFID control for increased efficiency in the warehouse operations compatibility of the company documentation to such internationally recognized standarts as ISO, HACCP, and other.

Deployment and Training
 
After the preliminary meetings, the Technological Design is outlined, formalizing the processes and workflow of the entire system. Upon approving the design, the client is fully aware of the final product, and can accordingly amend or add to the planned development. The system is then configured and deployed at several workstations, and a dedicated team on the client's side passes advanced training. This procedure is extremely important, in order to quickly and fully utilize the capacity of the software.

Monitoring
 
The final stage comes with a period in which the system is used during normal operation, however it is frequently observed by Step-Soft technicians. Final adjustments and minor changes can be made during this period.