As the firm expanded into new markets, the task of aggregating operational and financial data became increasingly difficult because the homegrown ERP system they used was based on 15 individual systems and more than 200 spreadsheets.

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And we were able to do it without incurring the costs of an ERP system like SAP ECC, which, in the end, was simply too big for a company of our size.

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For example, our global, single-instance ERP system runs 53 country payrolls on the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution and our SAP NetWeaver Portal supports over 2 million members of the SAP Community Network.

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If an ERP system can help the people at Lotus make a race car go faster, maybe it can help you pull ahead of the competition to help your team win, too.

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Couples that relevant information with structured information such as entries in your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and you can better achieve clarity around the transactions your company conducts.

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The manufacturing work order is approved by another manager and then entered into a legacy ERP system.

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Meanwhile, in order for Donna to answer a simple status update question from the sales rep, she has to log into an order-processing system, a legacy ERP and a delivery-tracking portal.

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