Strategic Enterprise Management and its Components

Prior to understanding Enterprise Management, let us identify how an enterprise works across processes. An organization is comprised of various departments who work together to achieve the organization’s set goal. The HR department hires professionals and defines their jobs, the payroll department manages the payment structure of employees, the sales department manages the sales and distribution process, the production department manages the inputs and outputs of a production, the finance department handles money involved across departments and so on.

There are marketing teams who handle the promotional and marketing activities of an organization, the IT team handles the information server and security, the development team takes care of the website, the content team generates the content and more.

Thus, there are a host of diverse departments that run an organization. Few of the listed can be eliminated based on the industry, and few are fixed departments within an organization across industries. Individual departments can be handled manually but when it comes to organizing and handling a complete Enterprise Management, things become different.

The task of managing departments at an enterprise level is very complex and the complexity increases along with the organization size. In order to simplify the processes and to manage diverse departmental data and work process, the Enterprise Management solutions (ERP) emerged.

When started, ERP systems were focused to Enterprise Management for bigger organizations but over the years, small and medium size companies too adopted ERP solutions. There are many market leaders providing ERP software development solutions and SAP is one of the pioneers. SAP offers strategic Enterprise Management solutions for different process and areas in enterprises.