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ERP Dashboard for Sales - enterprise dashboards as front ends for ERP systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages are quite ambitious. Basically they contain the entire data model for the company. The weak points have been the tremendous effort it takes to match the data model with the business processes (some companies find it easier to change their processes to match the package’s data models!) and the front ends. As of late, dashboards have become the favorite way for users to access their ERP data.

This sample sales dashboard comes from the Enterprise 21 ERP software package. The idea is that all the data captured by the ERP package can be translated into these types of charts. Each user can configure charts and set up their pages to contain the charts they want. Here we see a sales dashboard view with KPI metrics such as sales, gross margins, and product comparisons. The technology looks a little dated (client/server app, clunky graphics), but I bet the users still love it.

Sales Dashboard ERP Package

Homework: Joining an ERP project? Check out books on ERP packages. And if you are on an enterprise dashboard project, do yourself a favor and take a look at Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT, the only book on actually implementing enterprise dashboards.

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One Response to “ERP Dashboard for Sales - enterprise dashboards as front ends for ERP systems”

  1. ruchi Said on July 11th, 2008 at 4:43 am quote

    hi,

    had a query. if an organisation is planning an erp, then why does it need dashborads. wont erp do the needful. will not an erp package have an in built dashboard.

    also will the implementing partner provid the necessary dashboards.

    it will be gr8 if i could be helped with the above query

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