Cutting through the numbers – Use an ERP Dashboard to Save Time & Increase Focus

The world in which we live nowadays is a very different place to that in which many of us grew up. It’s a much more interconnected and real-time world, both professionally and personally. We’re connected to our devices for most of our waking hours, with all forms of information at our fingertips and expect instant results – how often do we hear “I need it now” or get chased on an email or message sent less than an hour earlier?

Over the last two and a half decades, the E-Max team has seen our users’ need for accurate real-time business wide information skyrocket. Companies are becoming ever more dependent on accurate time sensitive data for decision making. It's understandable as this data is often mission critical for the efficient running of their business and their long-term prosperity.

At E-Max, we've spent the last 25 years tuning into what our customers need from their ERP software. That’s why E-Max not only provides flexible end-to-end quote to cash functionality but includes a built-in dynamic activity Dashboard integral to our ERP system. This is an easy-to-read visual representation of essential business performance metrics, conveniently displayed on a single screen.
 

E-Max ERP’s Dashboard provides information that is:

• Real-time: Stay up-to-date with real-time information that relates to your role, ensuring you are always in the loop with the latest updates.
• Tailored to you: Set up your Dashboard to display the key performance indicators (KPIs) that matter most to you.
• Process and Department specific: Gain insights that are relevant to your department and responsibilities, enhancing focus and decision-making.
• Versatile: Access a diverse range of metrics, both internal and external, from tasks and sales orders to external data like weather forecasts, GPS tracking and raw material prices.
• Performance Tracking: Set reminders, highlight critical areas, and monitor progress against targets, promoting a culture of continuous improvement

We view our ERP Dashboard as a personalised canvas, empowering users to create a picture of their work and performance metrics. With the ability to drill down into displayed data from the dashboard screen, users can make faster. more strategic informed decisions in real time.
 

Driving focus with role-based ERP Dashboards:

One of the many strengths of E-Max ERP’s Dashboard is the option for every employee to have their own key metrics displayed on their personal screen. By creating role based Dashboards for all personnel, the key areas that impact their day to day operations can be shown. This means less time spent looking at irrelevant data and more focus on the KPIs that impact them. All personnel are then focused on performance. In cases of sensitive data, management teams can decide who can have access to specific reports and set security parameters appropriately.

Example content for role-based ERP Dashboards:

The power of a well-planned Dashboard:

A thoughtfully planned Dashboard brings a company together on one simple screen as the action of one person can trigger or request actions from others.

In engineering and manufacturing supply chains, where there are demanding contracts and targets in place, the ERP Dashboard enables companies to track and measure key data to enable continuous process improvement. The Dashboard provides an easy visual analysis of a company’s performance metrics and a feedback loop to enable changes to be made.

Paperwork is much reduced, with the information required updated live on screen throughout the working day.

By displaying only the relevant KPIs, every level of the company stays focused on performance. Decisions can be made on the real time data that is presented. By synchronising interconnected processes, it improves project management, collaboration and communication.

Ultimately, the ERP Dashboard helps a company improve its performance and customer satisfaction, whilst enabling users to stay focused on the tasks that matter.

To find out more about how you can use E-Max ERP and its Dashboard functionality to help your business become more efficient and grow, speak to one of our experienced ERP consultants on 0808 109 2035 or send us a message. If you’d like to see E-Max ERP in practice and how easy it is to build a comprehensive customised dashboard, then we can schedule a short demonstration of our software at a time convenient to you.