You’re lying in bed wide awake at 3 a.m. again, with no prospect of nodding off anytime soon. Instead of counting sheep, you are counting tomorrow’s to-dos, the miles you’ll have to drive and appointments to keep. If the buzz in your brain doesn’t have you stressed out, the fact that you cannot sleep and will be exhausted AGAIN, truly does.

Did you know that April is National Stress Awareness Month?  Whether your business is floundering or wildly successful, there are still ways that the right business solutions can eliminate or reduce several stress factors – beginning with the implementation of an appropriate ERP system.

Five Ways That the Right ERP Can Reduce Business Stress:

ERP software supports streamlining operations, making production planning quicker and helping to identify everyday “stressors.” ERP can provide data that allows for predictive analysis to help you confidently predict where demand and productivity should meet.

The wonderful thing about the automation possible with ERP, is that it reduces the chances for manual entry errors. This offers peace of mind, knowing that daily operations will run more predictably. Further, it allows employees to focus on more important tasks and leads to increased productivity and higher employee satisfaction.

3. Customized for individual business’s needs—Customizable applications, reports and workflows.

Off-the-shelf software may have features you do not need or, worse yet, not enough of the features that you do. ERP systems can be modified and built around your business’s unique needs. Systems can be designed around your organizations’ workflow, processes, and specific data driven requirements, making your life easier and your stress-load lighter.

4. Compliance--Features to support regulation conformity and adherence to industry standards.

Compliance monitoring can help companies avoid non-compliance penalties, protect assets and reputation, and demonstrate accountability. By providing single source of truth, ERP can give you confidence by monitoring activities, compliance, costs, and risks across your business, leaving much less to chance.

Nothing is more stressful than angry, dissatisfied customers. ERP supports the customer interaction chain, from sales, to distribution and reception, to ongoing support and service of the customer, so that customers satisfaction and support is high and your stress level is low.

CEO of data security and privacy business, ValidDatum and ERP Provider, Forseti Solutions, Steve Saner states:  “A successful ERP implementation focuses on processes that maintain data integrity”.

ERP is your next right tool. Should you wake in the middle of the night, replace the worries and tasks that start buzzing around, with commitment to researching Enterprise Resource Planning, then roll over and fall back asleep.