The VITA™ Advantage - Relevant Information: What is important to you?
VITA™ ERP Software – Business Information Relevant to You
Reorganization & Restructuring - Advantage 4
VITA™ reorganization advantage #4: History repeats itself!
The need for businesses to be able to operate using information based on accurate data from multiple sources is critical, and clearly recognized by business managers. However accurate it is, though, business data without context (relationships, rules etc) can translate into a nightmare for CFO’s, an unpleasant surprise at quarter-end for CEO’s, and a struggle to perform within legal guidelines.
The Agresso architecture easily allows changes to financial data and procedures, by those with appropriate permissions. This ensures that historical data and audit trails of prior organizational structures are retained for future reference, reporting and re-use as required. The maintenance routines of data trees and relations can allow proactive, fast growing companies to compare newly adopted structures with new values against three dimensions:
- the current structure;
- the proposed structure;
- anticipated business trends.
Past data, regardless of structural changes implemented, remains completely intact.
This ability to test hypothetical business models against previous structures provides extensive opportunities for Agresso customers: successful prior models can be retained and repeated; less profitable business models can be reviewed and altered by business executives against new parameters and cost structures.
Reorganization & Restructuring - Advantage 5
VITA™ Reorganization advantage #5: Avoiding parallel change paralysis
Reorganization and restructuring changes are most likely to follow business mergers and acquisitions. However, Agresso users find that the business planning and tactical execution associated with the technology requirements for merging and consolidating parallel or redundant operations, is greatly streamlined through VITA.
This can be achieved by simply adding new data elements into the existing trees, relations and workflow processes and roles. For example, an existing tree with three divisions and 50 departments can simply absorb a newly acquired organization with two divisions and 20 departments. The same is true for any data set. If there is a need to retain some interim autonomy of the merged/acquired company, new parallel trees and process models can be adopted, and the operations merged at the point when business activities are aligned and the new, merged structures, processes and roles have been agreed. Again, all of this can be achieved by business managers, without the need for IT resources.
Reorganization & Restructuring - Conclusion
Conclusion
Never before has the accelerated pace of business change – global outsourcing, merger and acquisition activities – generated so much need for business reorganization and restructuring. As this whitepaper has shown, Agresso’s VITA architecture supports such change, whether your organization is undergoing continuous, incremental change or a single structural reorganization. And significantly, such change can be implemented by business managers without the need for IT resources or external consultants. Never before has it been so financially imperative for organizational leaders to understand the real business advantages of a technology platform like Agresso’s VITA architecture.