Top 5 Reasons Why School ERP Software is Important?

by Jitender Kumar Chief manager Development

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been creating buzz in education industry especially among schools. It has become an important solution in today’s era and most of schools and institute are implementing ERP every day to manage their operations and activities efficiently in age of large databases.

School ERP software is an all-inclusive school management system designed to make every operation in an institute run smoothly and provide administrators with better access to staff and student information. When the surge for data becomes extensive in any education institute, it becomes very difficult to track and manage data to perform even important tasks and activities. School ERP software’s allows the institute to access the complete data on a common platform where all the stakeholders can perform their designated tasks and operations such as admissions process, attendance, fee for multiple courses, term-wise examinations, results, and other records. The ERP software automates the calculation of complex data management process. Implementing an ERP software system can surely help in improving the effectiveness of various campus operations and activities.

Today we will mention 5 reasons why your school should implement ERP software:

1. Centralized Platform for All Stakeholders: Educational ERP software’s brings all the stakeholders of education institute on a common platform where they can access information related to different departments and perform their operations and activities. It digitalizes all the data and information and made it accessible to all the stakeholders bringing greater efficiency and automation in information management.

2. Digitalize Transforms and Simplify Operations: Internet is not a choice anymore rather it’s a necessity and education industry is no exception. An educational ERP software enables a school to transform digitally. From Admissions to Fee Payments all the processes and tasks can be performed online in a jiffy all thanks to digitalization. It simplifies the long and hectic traditional processes and make the planning and executing process

effortlessly.

3. Better Administration: School ERP software’s majorly contributes to the daily administrative tasks such as Attendance Management, Student Assessments, Fee Collections, Report Generation etc. ERP software manages all this information digitally hence precious information and data can be now collated on single platform which help authorities to access and use it much easily, thus resulting in faster and better administration.

4. Effective and management communication with Parents: In every education institute Teachers & Parents communication plays a very vital role in all around development of student. School ERP software comes within built communication module where both parents and teachers can interact in real time. The school management can also send customized SMS to parents regarding upcoming events. Teachers can also share Results, Attendance, Performance Report etc as an attachment to parents on the platform. With all these features both teachers and parents can interact with each with great ease and access their child’s performance.

5. Introduce process wise cost efficiency: An education institute needs to deal with several tasks and operation on day-to-day basis that too manually which make them more prone to errors and omissions. Which result in decreasing effectiveness and productivity of your institute. By automating the entire process, ERP software minimize the human intervention which not just saves time but also increase the efficiency and effective performance of all the tasks resulting in cost saving as well.