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Choosing the best Supply Chain Management solution can be one of the most crucial decisions a company will make. One new factor that many businesses are taking into account is implementing software that conforms strictly to best practices. Best practices have been widely touted by many sofware vendors as the right way to implement an SCM system and for good reason.

Maintaining the best SCM system takes a large amount of design effort along with a very proactive team. If inventory reductions and doing more with less human effort are on your company's agenda you really can't afford to pick anything less than the perfect vendor. There are many canned systems on the market today, but the best systems have mainly come from companies that colaborate with their software vendor.

With so many Supply Chain Management options on the market today the decision and investigation can be daunting. Many companies are looking at a pay-as-you-go option like the one offered by Demand ERP. Another new arrival with Customer Relationship Management is the SaaS option. SaaS and conventional systems are fairly canned systems so you get all the power that a "best practices" system has to offer. These systems are beneficial if you need to implement quickly and your needs are fairly simple.

Advances in internet communications, model driven architecture, and open source systems are making it possible to develop and maintain specialized functionality in a shorter cycle time. Tuppas Software has a framework that allows highly configured modules to be implemented in weeks, not in years as is the case with many in-house production efforts. They also maintain Model Driven Architecture capability. MDA allows a company's systems to be rapidly upgraded as technology changes without the need to rebuild or reprogram the configured business logic.