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Supply chain management can be very challenging with so many intricacies across markets. Configuring your ERP to help your processes may not be what you'd want to add to the workload. However, a rigid system can significantly burden your labour and disrupt coordination and consistency. Here are a few pointers to account for in your supply chain system when deploying your ERP solution.

Without feedback, improvement isn't possible. Improvement requires comparing your current performance against previous performances. This in turn requires that you define what you mean by "performance." For warehouse management, making your customers happy by consistently fulfilling their orders on time with the right products, in the right quantities, and undamaged is a good way of measuring your performance.

Can a business operate profitably without inventory management? This depends on a number of factors. If the business has few competitors, it can run in a less than optimal fashion with too little or too much inventory, as long as it makes a profit. Some small start-ups with few customers can also do without formal inventory oversight for a while at least.