Augmenting ERP with Business Process Management

ERP systems provide essential capabilities for managing internal functions. But their rigid processes can slow down business agility, reduce efficiency and hinder a rapid respond to new opportunities, regulatory mandates and competitive threats. The result is higher costs and limited growth.

By taking advantage of business process management (BPM), organizations can extend their ERP platforms with agile processes that improve outcomes for a wide range of operations, including product design, production, procurement, service, human resources, legal, sales, finance and IT. BPM delivers a flexible business application layer for extending and expanding core ERP systems to:

  • Go beyond enterprise boundaries into the extended value chain
  • Unify multi-channel access and interoperability with one core process managing all channels
  • Provide decision support and guided interactions to ensure the best possible business outcomes
  • Automate process steps, routing and monitoring from end-to-end to improve efficiency, communications, accountability and compliance
  • Enable on-demand reporting for immediate insight into the data in order to determine the root causes and how to most effectively resolve the issues
  • Make on-going changes to business applications in days instead of weeks and months for increased business agility and responsiveness

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Optimizing Essential ERP Processes with Pega BPM

For one of the largest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the U.S., applying Pega BPM to traditional ERP functions has reduced the monthly accounting close cycle by 64% and saved more than 9,000 labor hours per month.

Pega BPM reduces technical proposal turnaround time by 80%

A major supplier of mechanical engineering solutions to the global oil and gas industry has used Pega BPM to reduce the proposal build cycle by 80%, powering a 10% increase in custom turbo-machinery revenue.

Enhancing Enterprise Resource Planning

Pega used its advanced BPM technology and solutions to extend its SAP and Oracle ERP platforms, creating a centralized set of business applications that has automated more than 325 processes.

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Capital Preservation for the Energy Industry

As supply chain organizations determine how to best address the loss of capital in the accounting settlement process, BPM can facilitate a multivariate focus, one-touch review and technology-enabled processes that reduce invoice inaccuracies.

How Can Companies Empower ERP solutions and Gain a Roadmap for Modernization?

Learn more about how companies can bridge the gap between the conflicting priorities of keeping operations running and being agile in executing changes that support business objectives.

Pega BPM: Transforming, Modernizing, and Empowering ERP Systems

Read about how Pega BPM empowers ERP solutions with agile business processes that provide a roadmap for modernization. Pega BPM is a transformational solution that can help keep operations running while supporting business-driven change.

BPM Professor Episode 7: Legacy Modernization Through BPM

This video series of thought leadership articles by Dr. Setrag Khoshafian will help you understand the value BPM can bring to the overall enterprise ecosystem. Episode 7 discusses how organizations can succeed in legacy transformation through BPM.