Business leaders across industries are challenging conventional wisdom that preaches business-wide, single-solution enterprise resource planning (ERP) standardization. They’re recognizing that to be innovative and progressive, divisions and subsidiaries within large organizations require a blend of flexibility and power from their ERP solutions that corporate-wide systems just can’t provide.
Two-tier ERP: Play to your strengths
Our two-tier ERP strategy is rooted in a common sense, practical approach to IT planning and governance: Use the right solution for the right situation.
Instead of force-fitting a corporate-wide ERP system throughout the entire enterprise, divisions or subsidiaries can capitalize on nimble architectures available in modern systems like Microsoft Dynamics AX.
In this model, divisional leaders get the flexible and powerful solution they need and tight business integration with their corporate or administrative ERP system.
Download A Strategic Approach to Establishing Two-Tier ERPTwo Tier ERP for Manufacturing
The increasingly complex world of global manufacturing and fluctuating customer demand requires an ERP system that can adapt and lead profitable change. Too often, corporate-wide ERP systems just can’t keep up.
In a two-tier ERP model, manufacturers can launch:
- Tailored inventory solutions that adapt to how raw materials and finished products flow in and out of each business.
- Integrated logistics solutions that unite each manufacturer with its unique set of suppliers, partners, distributors, and customers.
- Targeted reporting suites that roll information up the way division or subsidiary leaders need to both run the business and report to headquarters.
Real world two tier stories
“Our implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for the Finance Operations team proves that a two-tier ERP strategy can deliver a standardized solution that helps companies generate valuable process efficiencies and enable rapid innovation.”
Hal Howard
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Dynamics ERP Research and Development, Microsoft
Read the full case study here.
