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Today, mid-sized and large companies face an uncertain and complex environment. Raw material costs are rising, cash flow constraints are tightening, and risks, particularly cyber risks, are multiplying. At the same time, corporate social responsibility requirements are pushing companies to adopt more sustainable practices.
In this context, an ERP must enable organizations to gain agility and efficiency to support their growth. The ERP must therefore offer features that meet their challenges while ensuring smooth adoption within teams.
The challenges facing mid-sized companies and major accounts in deploying an ERP
There are many issues behind the deployment of an ERP:
- Simplify internal processes and promote collaboration between departments
- Automate processes by eliminating double entries and working on reliable, unified data shared by all departments
- Use forecasting tools to improve decision-making and manage performance through reporting
- Ensure simplified maintenance via cloud solutions and adapted TMA (Third Party Application Maintenance).
- Strength data and process security, an issue that has become a priority in the face of cyber threats.
Navigating ERP implementation
Implementing an ERP remains a complex project. The organizational change it induces can temporarily destabilize teams. To engage all users and ensure successful adoption, it is crucial to support usage from the outset with appropriate change management.
Budgetary constraints and implementation deadlines also represent major challenges.
Finally, the choice of solution plays a decisive role: opting for an open source solution like Odoo offers reliability, security and robustness, while guaranteeing a scalable solution over which the customer has control.
Why Odoo is the right fit for mid-sized and large companies
- Rich functionality: Odoo has more than 80 core applications and over 50,000 community modules to cover all your business needs, from sales and purchasing to financial management, CRM and logistics.
- Proven solution: with over 20 years' experience and deployment in a wide range of sectors.
- Scalability: Odoo adapts to the growth and development of organisations. The solution can be used for one or more applications with a ‘best of breed’ strategy, or as a complete ERP.
- Flexibility: Odoo enables specific developments to be made via modules. This approach makes it possible to adapt or add a particular functionality that may not be present natively in Odoo, but which is necessary for the company's business process. This is the strength of an open source solution.
- Interoperability: the solution can be easily integrated into any information system.
- Highly intuitive ergonomics: making it easy for users to adopt, an essential criterion for guaranteeing operational efficiency from the moment it is deployed.
- Multi-company / multi-entity: Odoo natively integrates multi-company management for the entire tool, and enables fine-tuning of rights to meet the challenges of collaboration between entities, while ensuring the confidentiality of critical data.
Integrate Odoo successfully
To maximize the benefits of Odoo, support from an expert partner is essential. With 17 years of partnership with Odoo, Smile supports mid-sized and large organizations in their growth. Smile's experts adapt to their needs by taking into account their business, their maturity, and their ability to mobilize resources. They are involved at every stage of the project, from framing to implementation:
- Immersion phase: Our teams come to meet you, observe how your business teams work and strive to understand your business challenges and your business processes.
- In-depth scoping phase: Smile conducts workshops to define the project's objectives and priorities. This step is crucial to ensuring effective implementation.
- Project implementation: This is carried out iteratively by Smile experts, allowing for adjustments along the way and avoiding tunnel vision. Smile also provides support for the tool's adoption, with training tailored to teams. Internal ambassadors are often mobilized to facilitate adoption.
- Maintenance: This step is simplified thanks to the use of the cloud and the absence of proprietary lock-in, thus offering great flexibility to companies.
Key factors for a smooth and successful Odoo adoption
The success of an ERP project depends on much more than the technical deployment of the solution. It's above all an organizational transformation, where team buy-in and clearly defined objectives play a central role. Here are three essential levers to ensure successful Odoo adoption within mid-sized companies and large corporations:
- Define shared success criteria: from the framing phase, it is crucial to align the expectations of the client and the integrator on clear and measurable objectives.
- Form a joint project team: The success of an Odoo project depends on close collaboration between the client, the software provider, and the partner. A joint project team helps create an agile and responsive work dynamic.
- Mobilize specialized consultants: To succeed, it's essential to rely on consultants capable of understanding the client's specific business needs. These experts act as translators between operational needs and Odoo's functionalities.
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