Monday 6 July 2015

Magento ERP Integration – Boon for A Los Angeles School Management

ERP system stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, although its full name does not explain this system fully. It is in fact a fusion of various business functions in one complete system to organize processes and information across the whole organization. It offers some level of synchronized automation and reporting. It helps all the department of a business to expedite the process more accurately.

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Why ERP

It offers some degree of synchronized automation and reporting. It helps all the department of a business to expedite the process more accurately. Common features include a dashboard or portal to allow employees to easily understand the business’ performance on core metrics.

The primary benefit of this solution is having a shared database that supports various functions used by different business units. It helps different staff members of various departments like accounting, HR, sales, to rely on the same information for their specific needs.

With an ERP solution, employees would have access to accurate business intelligence that helps them make better decisions faster. In addition, it also helps in eliminating redundant processes, thus dramatically reducing the cost of conducting business.

How ERP Helped In School Management

We, at Biztech, have completed one such project for one of our client, running a school El Camino Real Charter High School in Los Angeles, California. Education is one of the major industries growing exponentially. With the growing need of technology based tools for automation, enterprise resource planning solution is the best fit, given its business needs. All the school functions can be automated offering faster school processing. Here are some major modules that we integrated with the school system to run the school efficiently!

1.School Management System (ERP)

We created an ERP portal through which the entire management of school i.e. teacher, student, inventory, HR, vendors, projects, textbooks and any other aspects were organized and managed. This portal had a customized dashboard through which all the above activities can be easily and efficiently managed by the authorities who can offer access to various department and entities as per the need. This system also provided multiple necessary and vital reports including MIS based on critical business metrics.

2.Online Teachers Store Management

We developed a teacher’s portal using which teachers could access and order various office supplies and other important records. Using this module the teachers can track the availability of various articles required in school, and also can update their stationery needs, their expenses, payroll, salary, periods, office supplies and host of others. This system had a user interface through which teachers can update their needs and also place order for the required articles online. Be it stationary, furniture, technology or office supplies. They can have access to all the required products online.

3.Online Student Store Management

Similarly we also developed a portal for students. Using which, students can also manage their requirements whether it is academics, career or sports. This portal can also be used by the parents of the students, on their behalf. Through this interface student can get their textbooks, sports accessories, exam details or can know about the events that are scheduled to be organized. It’s entirely dedicated to students to fulfill their academic needs online.

4.Magento and OpenERP Integration

To get the most out of these technologies and systems we integrated magento and OpenERP that helped the school to access the sale and purchase data from their ERP dashboard without shifting to specific stores or teacher and students. Be it sale of study material or other articles or purchase of school equipments/furniture, all can be accessed from a single terminal. All vendors, students, teachers and other relevant data can be available within one centralized interface that helped school to organize their several regular activities smoothly and effortlessly.

So, does it really worth? Of course! Being ERP solution provider, we have created a full-fledged project having all the above modules to run our client’s school successfully. For offering such a school management solution to an education system of such repute, we deployed two giant platforms!

1.Odoo Solution
2.Magento Solution

Both the platforms helped us deliver the desired results!

If you are running a school and finding it tough to manage the day-to-day functioning, it’s time now to shift to customized ERP solution. It will not only help you simplify your everyday task but it will also prove to be a rich repository of business intelligence that can help you redefine and delineate your future business strategies.