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Flexible, scalable IT System helps ease growing pains: as organizations grow and become more complex, they need information systems that give their various business units access to the right information at the right time in the right format.

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As companies grow--especially through mergers and acquisitions--they must determine what kind of operating synergies they hope to achieve and how they will handle the changing business conditions. Consolidators employ various management strategies with newly acquired divisions, ranging from complete independence and autonomy to complete corporate assimilation. In either case, the company's ERP system must be able to grow with the organization and support the various business models effectively so that the corporate strategy can yield the desired results.

Such a company's information system should accommodate a flexible multi-tier organizational structure and provide an overlapping security system that can control access and reporting while enabling various business units to work effectively with each other.

Since many companies are now national in scope and operate across the country, their software system should keep track of transactions in the local time they occurred. This helps individual branches track activities, sales, production, scheduling and shipping based...

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