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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system refers to an all-in-one business management solution complete with features for inventory management, order entry and processing, accounting, warehouse management, contact management, purchasing, sales and financials, and more… Binding individual yet dependent departments together, ERP ensures a smooth flow of informational data between them. By gathering a company’s shared transactional data from multiple departments, ERP systems prevent data duplication and offer data integrity with a single version of the truth. Selecting the right and quality ERP solution, not only simplifies business processes but also results...

In my previous article, I shared that for an IT administrator or finance users of an ERP system, security is often one of the areas that are overlooked and this is often very risky which will cause the organisations to dysfunction. Security protection all the way down to the database level is of paramount importance. Today, let’s us look at how Multiable M18 ERP & HCM system deal with role security and even field level of security. I did mention about role or field security in my previous article when...

These days IT security is of paramount and has been a hot topic. You will often heard that ABC company has been hacked and their customers’ data have been leaked online. This is very damaging to the company’s reputation and will be sued under the GDPR or PDPA regulations by the relevant authorities. Multiable M18 ERP & HCM Systems is cloud-native backend ERP systems that runs on cloud environment. Being an cloud application, naturally, it has been protected by the cloud service provider infrastructure and our customers are not to...

As an ERP users probably in the warehouse, your task are to ensure that goods that needed to be shipped or going to be shipped are closely monitored especially to VVIP customers. Instead of running a static report every now and then, you will need to have a real-time information of the status and probably to update the status manually in a graphically way with ease. At this stage, you should be able to tell me that in Multiable ERP & HCM Systems, you are can easily achieve that by using...

I had briefly introduce what Kanban is in our Multiable M18 ERP & HCM Systems. As an ERP system’s users, if once of your weekly or monthly task is to update a bunch of data in the system, how do you do it? If it is just one or two fields that you need to update, I believe most users will export the data into excel, amend the data and then upload it back to the system. Yes, it might sounds easy but usually when you export, you are exporting...

For many manufacturing users of ERP system, Kanban is probably a familiar name or term that you often heard of for lean manufacturing or Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing. In fact, this scheduling system used in manufacturing was invested by a Toyota engineer in the 1940s. Kanban in fact is the name of the Toyota Nameplate System. So what is Kanban in Multiable M18 ERP & HCM System? It is not related to the Kanban manufacturing but the idea is similar to the “Nameplate”. It is a our graphical presentation of how...

We had shared several useful functionalities or tricks that improves productivity and that is usually one of the main reasons why companies are looking to upgrade or even changing their backend ERP system. Fundamentally, the backend ERP system must be a system that allows flexibility for the users to capture data or information without spending additional time and money and once all these are captured, it must be flexible enough to allow users to extract the information out. Today let’s us look at drill-in. In the M18 ERP system, it...

Previously in M18 HCM & ERP system, we mentioned about the user’s customisable lookup query that you can run as shortcut in order to improve productivity on the left panel in any of the data modules. Today, let’s me share with you that in fact, during data entry, as long as the field enter is from the lookup, we can even further customise the lookup information according to the users’ needs. For instance, in the M18 HCM & ERP system “Employee” module, there are lookup fields such as “Position” and...

As we had seen in the previous Multiable M18 HCM & ERP system, it is a very robust and flexible system that allows users to create/ edit/ rearranging the fields in any of the data modules. Besides just adding fields, it even allows users to create their own data modules from scratch if there is a need to. All these can be easily achieved by its’ powerful graphical user interface without the need of a consultant or programmer. Being flexible in data entry means the ERP system must also be...

We had briefly mentioned about the flexibility of a modern ERP system where it allows users to add/ edit any fields that in any of the data modules previously. Let’s us take a closer look at how it can be done. Imagine that you are working for a company as a sales head where your sales managers have to enter their sales order or sales contracts in the company’s ERP system.  However, there are a lot of fields that your sales managers need to enter besides the compulsory fields and...

How are modern ERP systems different from traditional one? It is probably one of the most common questions that you will be asking yourself when looking for a new ERP system. There are many articles in the internet but many simply telling you that traditional ERPs are generally housed on-premise using the company’s own servers and maintained by your own IT staffs and/or external IT company while modern ERPs are cloud ERP. Cloud ERP is hosted on the ERP vendors’ cloud and the system is provided as Software as a...