According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), almost 70% of Spanish workers use the computer to complete their work tasks. On the other hand, the number of companies that, in our country, have a website has increased 3.3 percentage points. Right now, of the businesses that have internet connection, around 82% already appear in search engines such as Google and Bing (the most popular worldwide). All of this is due to the digitalization of society, which cannot be explained without the implementation of new technologies. In this tidal wave of advances, there are the softwares ERP for companies. These computer programs automate the repetitive processes that multinationals, SMEs Y Startups they do in their daily lives.
Unlike the softwares that are used exclusively to manage accounting, accounting programs Enterprise Resource Planning They integrate finances as another module. In this way, companies can maintain control of their profits and losses in real time, but also control of suppliers, the distribution of orders, worker shifts, nominas, the technical maintenance of the machines and the presence control. This last point is especially important since it is expected that, in the coming months, the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours weekly comes into force.
As long as adjust to new legal regulations, companies will have to digitally record the number of hours that their employees work. Likewise, the mechanisms used for this purpose must include breaks and breaks. Given the advantages of ERP, below we explain the importance of installing softwares enterprise resource planning.
ERP software helps comply with the new 37.5-hour workday
Softwares compatible with e-commerce
We are already in the penultimate stretch of the year. During the second quarter of 2024, the income generated by e-commerce They exceeded 23,000 million euros. ICEX Invest in Spain, which has the support of the Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business, expects the country to close 2025 with 5.4% more profits than the previous year. Since almost a third of Spanish companies sell online, softwares the ERP current ones are compatible with virtual stores. In fact, connecting the ERP program to the establishment of e-commerce allows you to collect and analyze data on the behavior and consumption habits of the company's clients. In this way, the computer solutions what Cegid, and other companies in its sector, develop and compile the information in a single place, centralizing it so that it is easily accessible from authorized company departments. With this, errors are considerably reduced. Since the information is not dispersed across several databases, the risk of making errors by not updating it in all databases disappears.
Advantages of ERP software (also for companies offline)
Taking as reference the software Cegid ERP, perfectly compatible with the online stores you create Here Web Startup, and with those that have not yet made the leap to digital commerce, we can summarize the benefits of using ERP software in:
- Get detailed reports after performing a real time analysis of the information available in the ERP database.
- Dispose of updated statistics about suppliers, customers, workers' work performance… that allow the company to design strategies and make informed decisions with a high probability of success.
- Receive proactive recommendations from AI predictive analytics (Cegid has decided to integrate Artificial Intelligence into its softwares of ERP for this purpose).
- Improve user service. The company's departments, being interconnected, would work together. Thanks to this interdepartmental communication, the quality of the service provided to the client is superior. In addition, automation (for example: calculating workers' payrolls) saves time for the company's own employees, allowing them to serve a greater number of clients and free the Human Resources department from overload.
- Offer a computer program under the modality SaaS, how software as a service. These softwares They are purchased as a subscription to cloud services. Being an ERP on cloud, It is accessible from any device. This presence in the cloud also makes it possible to automatic download of latest versions and updates that technicians release from the program.
ERP in companies in Spain
In 2019, at the time of the emerging pandemic, the technology and IT industry in Spain exceeded 26 billion euros. This is indicated in a publication by journalist Rosa Fernández (Statesman). Of this income, 14% was contributed by the manufacturing sector. software. While, at that time, less than 40% of the companies in our country had computer programs similar to CRM or ERP, the billing of these softwares has recently increased around the world. In Spain, companies dedicated to the industry constitute more than half of ERP users. Catalonia, Euskadi and Aragon are the autonomies that opted the most for ERPs at the beginning. Furthermore, according to ERP Spain Portal, it is expected that the trend to implement them will continue to rise: a third of the 200 companies that were surveyed said they valued the transition to services on cloud, for the ERP in the cloud They are more flexible and provide a greater degree of customization. Large international companies, such as Tesla and Nestlé, use softwares the ERP.
