Each day, we are achieving new heights in science and technology. We need to snap our fingers and Boon! Our electricity bills are paid, snap the fingers and contact a person living abroad, snap the fingers and book a flight ticket. Hit a button and order food. We can now do things that seemed magical a decade before. Technology has brought the world to our tips. These advancements in the field of technology are the ultimate results of knowledge that itself comes from education; therefore, we can say that education breeds technology. However, today the scenario has changed. Technology is giving birth to teaching and nurturing it to flourish more and more. The development of educational software called institute ERP is one such gift of technology to education.

Introduction of ERP to the Educational Field

ERP stands for “Enterprise Resource Planning.” The software was earlier restricted for business organizations in terms of its use and has burst forth even in different sectors like education in modern days. ERP is an integrated management system that helps us perform day-to-day activities efficiently. 

There is a plethora of work an institution needs to perform, from taking admissions to keeping the records of each student, from keeping their attendance history to providing them the assignment, from taking exams to publishing results. Thus, maintaining all the data becomes very tedious. Even after hiring a large man-force, many institutions failed to keep records of every activity. But fortunately, gone are the days when everything depended on pen-paper procedures. An institute can now digitalize every process from admissions to fees submission and results declaration by updating everything on their website. Various Institute ERP software can manage these tasks quickly and efficiently. An ERP has various features that deal with the admission management system, inquiry management system, attendance management system, notice portal management system, weekly schedule management system, etc. These features enhance the per-day working potential of an institution and allow maintaining systematic records of every student.

Perks of Using ERP

ERP has salient features that integrate different working departments of an institution on a single automated platform. An institution can use ERP for performing the following actions:

. ENQUIRY MANAGEMENT

Every institution has an inquiry department that deals with the different queries of parents and students. Suppose a parent wants to admit their child to a coaching center and know about the course duration and fee structure, or a student wants to know the procedure for changing their subsidiary subject in the college. In such instances, dealing with every query manually by an institution becomes very haphazard. It can be easily managed using ERP. 

. ADMISSION MANAGEMENT

Admission procedures involve:

• Safeguarding the data filled by applicants in the application form.
• Conducting an entrance test.
• Evaluating the test.
• Declaring the result.

Digitalizing the whole process via using ERP saves time and energy.

. FEE COLLECTION

ERP has provided parents the privilege to pay their child’s fees from anywhere in the world. They do not have to come to the institution’s office to pay the fees.

. LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

Entries of books issued and returned can be maintained chronologically using an ERP. 

. DATA STORAGE AND SECURITY

ERP Software gives ample storage to save data. Also, it is secured and assures no leak of information. The institution’s authorities can choose the persons to whom the data will be visible.

. Conclusion

ERP is one solution to all the problems that a school, college, or coaching institute faces. It makes handling operations feasible for any institute. The automation services of ERP have been proved a big boon to educational institutes during the pandemic when no offline studies were possible.Every institute should install ERP software to promote modern means of education.