{"id":9577,"date":"2015-10-05T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2015-10-05T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T21:06:37","slug":"how-to-create-custom-budgeting-over-your-enterprise-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-to-create-custom-budgeting-over-your-enterprise-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create custom budgeting over your enterprise system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: Enterprise systems (like ERPs) rarely provide the budgeting capabilities to precisely fit your business. As a result, budgeting becomes a time-consuming, spreadsheet-driven process. Learn how one company solved this problem, automating their budgeting process and delivering custom budgeting applications to their executives on-demand.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20151002\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\nIf your business runs on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, let me ask you a question: Does it fit your company\u2019s unique budgeting needs?<\/p>\n<p>For most businesses, I\u2019d say the answer is \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ERP system isn\u2019t designed to give a custom experience to every business. They\u2019re built to serve the needs of a wide range of businesses. They can\u2019t possibly fit every company\u2019s unique budgeting needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The result: These companies resort to time-consuming workarounds&#8211;often involving Excel.<\/strong> They pull budget data out of their system, and format it in Excel to fit their needs. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem: This process is not only time consuming, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/strong> A single misclick in a spreadsheet can create errors in your numbers. <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'spreadsheets']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/7-dangers-of-spreadsheets-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">Errors made in spreadsheets<\/span><\/a> regularly create massive losses for businesses across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s the answer? If your ERP system doesn\u2019t meet your budgeting needs, and Excel-based workarounds are risky&#8230;what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a great example of a company that solved this very problem. Their ERP system didn\u2019t provide the budgeting capabilities they required, which led to time-consuming workarounds. What did they do? They fixed the problem, transforming a month-long budgeting process into on-demand applications. Executives can now access custom budgets whenever they need.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how they delivered custom budgeting over their ERP system, you can <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'renzi']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/customers\/renzi.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">read the story here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Enterprise systems (like ERPs) rarely provide the budgeting capabilities to precisely fit your business. As a result, budgeting becomes a time-consuming, spreadsheet-driven process. 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