Sunday, October 22, 2017

Why ERP is important for your School?

There is no denying the fact that Educational institutions  in INDIA are going through a transitioning phase.This is perhaps the first decade in this industry where Students can teach a thing or two to their Teachers especially when it comes to the use of Technology.
Gone are the days when Teachers/Parent used to be the only source of information for Students.

In this changing Education industry there is one term which is coined more often  i.e "ERP" or Enterprise Resource Planning
So what really is "Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP" and how can your school or institute benefit from it.

Enterprise resource planning is the basic foundation of the schools of 21st century and in a nutshell it is the automated management of various manual processes in the day to day operations of schools using technology.
Here are some of the benefits of using School ERP Software.

  1. Increase in Productivity:School Management System helps in automating lot of day to day manual operations like Attendance,Accounting thus boosting the productivity.
       2.Automated Management of Examination:Examinations Results once stored electronically 
using any School Management software can be accessed from anywhere without any dependency on the concerned staff.The system can be configured to send smses to the parents with their Child grades directly on their mobile number. This way school can maintain one on one  communication with parents without having to call for a special Parents Teachers meet

    3.Simplifying the Admission process:There is lot of manual overhead on schools w.r.t to Admissions every year,Schools have to process the application,they have to verify the applicants documents which is a cumbersome process. ERP systems comes to rescue on these fronts.

  4.Improvement in Overall Communication: ERP Systems can help the school administrators to communicate the notifications about important event like Exam Schedules,Holiday Schedules,Emergency Communications in the blink of an eye with the use of Technology.All you need is a working internet connection.

  5.Expenses Management:Believe it or not any education institute works under tight budgets and 
has to account for lot of unkowns like rising fuel prices/inflation/electricity etc etc.
ERP systems can come very handy in managing those expenses.You can configure the system to track the cash inflow/outflows and then prepare a report out of it which can be emailed to the authorities to better track the expenses.
For Ex:Months of June to July may see less expenses in Electricity cost because Schools are closed or months of december can see unusually high expenses in extra curricular cost due to annual function of the school,all these things can be managed and planned very efficiently if we have a report of what was spent last year and how can it be optimized.

Last but not the least we would like to end by saying that
"INDIA of 21st Century would become SMART not by SMART Cities but by building SMART Schools".

ERP is one example of how you can make your schools smart and students/teacher smarter

Cheers,
Rohan Chawla




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