The OpenBravo ERP solution for SMEs

Small and Medium enterprises generally struggle with the real integrated implementation of accounting, sales management, CRM, procurement, managing inventory, manufacturing and production. Also customer service is one area where SMEs face a challenge of going the extra mile while ensuring smooth customer experience and be operationally smart.

ERP does it all for your business
An ERP software goes a long way in ensuring all of the above and much more for your business. Whichever industry you might be operating in, retail, apparel management, etc. A strong ERP software managing your backend makes you a far more operationally smarter and stronger organisation. Especially for SMEs its an imperative to ensure that every sales lead is managed and followed up. Every customer is attended to and is maintained and managed. Also what is crucial is predicting the future patterns of business growth and customer behaviour.

A strong ERP software helps you achieve all of this and much more.

But ERPs are costly, Is there any software for SMEs

With similar functionalities and strongly comparable to the best of the class ERP softwares, Openbravo is a professional, web based online open source ERP solution and package. Its easy to use and provides ERP modules and packages for achieving and streamlining many business functions.

What all can Open bravo help my business with?

• Master Data Management
• Openbravo is based on a single, integrated database model covering all key application areas of a complete business management system, including seamless integration to Point of Sale (POS).                              
• Procurement management
• Openbravo helps you minimize acquisition costs and maximize supplier collaboration. This module allows your business to be in full control of your supply chain. It is fully integrated with financial accounting and warehouse management modules.                                           
•  Project and Service management
• Openbravo helps in driving project profitability. This functionality is positioned more towards companies which are into project management and services.                                                                          
• Product management
• The production functions and plant management in Openbravo ERP allow a complete shaping of the productive structure of each organization (sections, cost centers and work centers) as well as the relevant data for production: production plans (operation sequences), and products used to make one another.                                                  
• Sales and CRM
• From simply capturing sales orders to being integrated with the POS, Openbravo does everything to streamline the sales process and management for your business. From invoicing to delivery, all modules are integrated within Openbravo.                                               
• Financials and Accounting
• The financial management and accounting functionalities provided by Openbravo ERP are designed to minimize manual data input on behalf of the user, thereby freeing them from tedious, routine tasks and allowing greater focus on other, more value added tasks.                        
•  Business Intelligence
• The Business Intelligence component of Openbravo ERP, integrated into the management system, will help you to monitor of the state of your company, providing you with the relevant information for decision-making. The predefined balanced scorecard will allow you to verify, through the monitoring of a series of key indicators, if the defined strategy is being correctly implemented in your organization.

How can I start using Openbravo?

If you understand technology well and are well versed throughout all your business processes, you can download the community version of the Openbravo ERP. Otherwise a good way to do it is engage with an Openbravo ERP partner in your region of the world and get the application customized for your business needs.

You can download the community version of Openbravo HERE.

There are many such online tools and platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!