ERP and IoT are two of the most innovative and useful technologies that businesses can use to leverage their growth opportunities regardless of their size or nature of operations. While IoT helps companies to have a greater ability to transfer data without a human to human or human to computer interaction, ERP assists businesses to streamline their business operations to improve organizational efficiency. The modern ERP software and systems have the unique ability to tie all the various business applications into an integrated platform. This feature of ERP can be used by businesses to integrate IoT with ERP to get the best possible results out of both of them. Integrating these two technologies will help companies to improve both their back-office and customer-related business processes. With the proper integration of these two, organizations will not need to worry about connecting their internal business processes and applications with external business data. With the ability to analyze data in real-time, companies can also take much more informed and effective business decisions. While the advantages of integrating ERP and IoT are limitless, some of the most important and visible advantages are:

1. Helps to take Better Decisions: With the quality and accessibility of the data improved, companies can now take better business decisions. While the data gathered through IoT devices is rapidly increasing, businesses are not ready to deal with or analyze this data in an effective manner. So, by integrating ERP and IoT not only is the business integrating and storing the business information in a centralized location, but they are also making it easier to access and refer that stored data.  The integration will also help companies to make quick changes and these changes will be regularly updated in the system so that the work personnel can use that information.

2. Instant Business Insights: Another unique advantage that the ERP and IoT integration can offer to businesses is to gain access to valuable business information in real-time. Apart from this, the companies will also be able to conduct real-time analysis of the business data and this analysis is crucial when it comes to optimizing the organizations performance and operations. This will, in turn, help companies to be proactive in their business operations. By integrating ERP and IoT with AI, companies will also be able to give the employees correct suggestions at the right time which will help the employees to make the accurate business decisions.

3. Better Control over Assets: Asset management is very crucial for a business to grow and develop because the optimal usage of the available assets can give the best results for the company. ERP and IoT integration will automatically feed the information related to the assets directly to the ERP system that will help all the related parties to view and analyze that information. The integration of ERP and IoT will also help companies to send asset information to its employees when the assets need maintenance or replacements.

4. Improving the Operational Efficiency: One thing that organizations need to run a profitable business is operational efficiency. ERP and IoT are two technologies that aim to improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. The ERP and IoT integration will help companies to change lanes to a technology-driven business from a human-centric approach. This in itself will bring forth a positive change for the business and being technology-driven means there will be a lot less errors and the lesser the errors a company makes the better their performance becomes.

5. Helps in Business Forecasting: If you get your business decisions wrong, you will end up in a whole lot of trouble. The integration of ERP and IoT will help companies to use the stored data to create accurate business forecast models. These models can be later used to take correct business decisions which are crucial in this modern competitive business environment.

As mentioned before, the benefits of integrating ERP with IoT are limitless but one fundamental thing that this integration will ensure for a business is increased efficiency in their business performance.