Many growing small to midsized enterprises (SMEs) understand the importance of having a guiding vision for their company. Truly great companies understand what elements of their core competencies should never change and what should be open for change. This consciously practiced discipline is closely linked to the ability for a company to achieve its vision. Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain constant while their business strategies and practices adapt to a changing market demands. When it comes to evaluating the business software needed to support your company's next stage of growth, it is important to consider its role in supporting that vision.
Take for example Vision33 customer Bellingham Underwriters (BUI) whose service offers high quality and financially secure insurance products centered on the transportation industry. At the core of the company’s vision is to ensure that customer needs are top priority. However, with this vision in mind, BUI was faced with complex accounting and reporting needs, so their day-to-day operations have always centered on their accounting system. Their current software package however, was unable to keep up with company’s complexity and did not provide the flexibility needed to support change. To continue delivering on its vision would require a business backend that satisfied its accounting requirements while providing the flexibility to support the company’s continued growth.
By evaluating enterprise resource planning applications (ERP) the company choose SAP Business One for its flexibility to adapt business processes to changes in market without requiring the company to lose focus of its vision and restructure its processes to fit the application. With SAP Business One, BUI now has since experienced many benefits including:
- The implementation of a comprehensive ERP application to better support company growth today and into the future.
- The ability to generates real-time custom reports to help guide management’s decision making.
- The creation of a more reliable customer experience; with complete visibility of payments and account management.
- Real time reporting capability leveraging multiple data sources to provide their customers with accurate, real-time information.
To better understand how your company can achieve its business vision with SAP Business One, read Vision33’s recent Bellingham Customer Success Story. With SAP Business One, BUI was able to achieve its vision; leveraging business intelligence to overcome its growth challenges.
