I was recently a part of a program with a local industry/university/business center partnership.
We were tasked to build a solution for the most "painful" parts of managing a job shop. Over a year we identified and built a tool for scheduling and priority management. All shops that were part of the same program adopted it and loved it; claimed it transformed how they collaborate in their organization.
With that news, we tried reaching out to other businesses and it seems like no one wants to solve scheduling unless it comes with a CRM, inventory manager and costs module.
I'm curious as to why it feels like shops want an ERP that attempts to do "everything"? as opposed to using tools best suited for the job. i.e. QuickBooks for finance, Hubspot for CRM, etc. Is there something I'm missing? we've offered to integrate with all these tools and sometimes their existing ERP but still face the same challenges.
Interested in an explanation or advice if I'm looking about this all the wrong way.
Cheers,
Nelson
We were tasked to build a solution for the most "painful" parts of managing a job shop. Over a year we identified and built a tool for scheduling and priority management. All shops that were part of the same program adopted it and loved it; claimed it transformed how they collaborate in their organization.
With that news, we tried reaching out to other businesses and it seems like no one wants to solve scheduling unless it comes with a CRM, inventory manager and costs module.
I'm curious as to why it feels like shops want an ERP that attempts to do "everything"? as opposed to using tools best suited for the job. i.e. QuickBooks for finance, Hubspot for CRM, etc. Is there something I'm missing? we've offered to integrate with all these tools and sometimes their existing ERP but still face the same challenges.
Interested in an explanation or advice if I'm looking about this all the wrong way.
Cheers,
Nelson