Alasan utama yang membuat sistem ERP sangat penting didalam bisnis ialah persentase keberhasilan perusahaan dalam efisensi akan meningkat. Faktor yang membuat meningkatnya efisiensi dengan implementasi sistem ERP ialah bisnis proses yang rumit, pengerjaan secara manual yang akan mengakibatkan membengkaknya anggaran serta waktu yang relatif lebih lama bisa ditekan sekecil mungkin. Solusi yang ditawarkan oleh sistem ERP membuat perusahaan mendapatkan otomatisasi bisnis proses yang tentu saja akan berefek kepada kecepatan proses serta meningkatnya keuntungan perusahaan.

Dilihat dari sisi karyawan, sistem ERP memberikan kemudahan dalam pekerjaan karena karyawan akan terbebas dari tugas-tugas yang dapat di tangani oleh sistem sehingga bisa dapat memfokuskan kedalam pekerjaan yang  lebih kompleks dan  membutuhkan penanganan yang lebih personal. Bukan hanya akan meningkatkan produktivitas pekerja namun juga perusahaan akan dapat mengurangi anggaran operasional serta overhead.

Sistem ERP banyak memberikan kemudahan di semua level dalam perusahaan mulai dari tingkat bawah sampai dengan tingkat managerial karena data yang dihasilkan oleh sistem  dapat dijadikan sebuah acuan untuk menilai kinerja perusahaan di banyak elemen dalam waktu yang sangat cepat. Laporan yang dihasilkan oleh ERP dapat digunakan pula dalam menganalisa strategi perusahaan kedepannya karena era pasar bebas terkadang memaksa perusahaan untuk banyak merubah strategi dalam produksi sampai dengan pemasaran dan ERP dapat diandalkan untuk kepentingan tersebut karena bisa cepat dalam memberikan laporan yang nantinya digunakan sebagai acuan dalam pengambilan tindakan sehingga perusahaan menjadi sangat responsif terhadap perubahan pasar.

Apakah anda penasaran sejauh mana manfaat ERP bila diimplementasikan di perusahaan anda? Hubungi  hotline kami sekarang juga di 022-6006222 dan biarkan tim ahli W-ERP membantu usaha anda ketingkat yang lebih tinggi.

Banyak perkembangan-perkembangan yang kami lakukan di WGS seperti adanya Project Consultant untuk memastikan proyek berjalan lancar dan memberikan kepuasan kepada klien, Quality Insurance yang bertanggung jawab dengan kualitas yang diberikan sehingga bukan hanya bagus di tampilan tetapi engine nya pun sempurna dan banyak lagi perkembangan lainnya.

Di tahun 2011 ini kami bangga bisa ikut berkontribusi di Industri Indonesia karena kami telah berhasil membuat produk ERP yang bernama W-ERP. Produk yang dibuat oleh lebih dari 30 programmer ini memiliki 4 modul diantaranya ialah Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Warehouse Management, Manufacture Management. Pengalaman kami dalam membuat aplikasi besar untuk publik kami manfaatkan untuk diterapkan di W-ERP kenapa? Karena menurut hasil riset yang kami lakukan kebanyakan aplikasi-aplikasi ERP yang beredar di Indonesia mempunyai tampilan yang sangat sulit untuk digunakan bahkan perlu berminggu-minggu untuk bisa mulai menggunakannya, oleh karena itu W-ERP kami rancang semudah pengguna menggunakan aplikasi sehari-hari seperti social network atau aplikasi word processing.

Penasaran ingin mencoba produk ERP kami? Dapatkan free trial gratis selama 30 hari dan buktikan bahwa aplikasi ERP kami ialah aplikasi ERP yang paling tepat untuk anda. Hubungi hotline kami sekarang juga di 022-6006222

Last April, we’ve decided to re-design and implement a new exciting look for our sister sites.

And today I would like to announce that Qorser and Kiranatama have been refreshed with the new looks!! XD

Qorser come with an elegant classy style with more detailed info.

With the new look on Qorser,

we want to let our customer notice that we have some nice X.O ( read : experienced ) teams ready to develop high quality applications for them.

While Kiranatama come with more RAILS feel on it.

With the new look on Kiranatama,

we want to tell to our customer that once they’ve buy a ticket…well…I mean contact us (we’ve designed the contact us form to be shown as a train ticket )

then they can get ready to onboard with the most satisfying ride.

They can sit back and relax, enjoy the ride because they’re already in the right track.

Di Indonesia UMKM didefinisikan sebagai perusahaan dengan omzet di bawah 50M per tahun. Kenyataannya, perusahaan yang memiliki omzet lebih dari 50M setahun (bukan UMKM berdasarkan pengkategorian pemerintah) juga masih banyak yang tidak menggunakan ERP. ‘Semua perusahaan besar’ yang disebut di atas adalah perusahaan dengan omzet lebih dari Rp. 1T per tahun.

Memang, perusahaan seperti Oracle juga mengkategorikan perusahaan di bawah Rp. 1T per tahun sebagai SMB (Small & Medium Businesses), di mana market untuk ERP masih luas. Buktinya, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft sekarang telah memiliki solusi2 ERP ‘murah’ untuk kelas SMB.

Namun semurah-murahnya ERP dari perusahaan2 Paman Sam itu minimal Rp. 500 juta. Harga ini sebanding dengan pengembang lokal Indonesia. Dan jangan salah, harga ini bisa belum termasuk hardware dan jaringan yang harus dipasang para klien SMB.

Makanya, banyak SMB yang enggan investasi 500jt lebih untuk software; apalagi kebanyakan dijalankan / dimiliki oleh bos-bos yang masih kolot. Bila menggunakan Excel dan software bajakan pun masih jalan, untuk apa membeli software yang 500jt lebih? Lebih baik dipakai untuk membeli mobil baru

Sadar atau tidak disadari, perusahaan-perusahaan SMB sudah berteriak meminta sistem. Namun sekali lagi, harga tidak masuk. Solusinya sy rasa adalah Software as a Service, di mana harga bisa ditekan seminimal mungkin. WGS sekarang telah memiliki solusi ERP Software as a Service. Sy harap SMB bisa akhirnya menikmati ERP dan merasakan manfaatnya!

WGS and KADIN together agree to improve and strengthen Indonesian Small and Medium Businesses through Cloud Computing. We will disclose further details within a couple of months. Here is Mr. Ikin Wirawan (CEO of WGS) together with Mr. Suryo Bambang Sulisto (Chairman of KADIN Indonesia) and with Mr. Didie Soewondho (Deputy Chairman of KADIN Indonesia for Information Technology, Telecommunication, Research, Broadcasting, and Technology).

Thanks also to Mr. Samuel Tarigan, the University Chancellor, on February 26th I had the opportunity a seminar to the students convincing them to stay in IT career, exposing them to the hot web industry, and persuading them to join WGS. Our CTO, William Notowidagdo, gave a separate seminar to the students introducing Ruby on Rails and its benefits as a rapid development framework.

After the seminar, many ITHB students signed up to work at WGS. It turns out the students and ITHB werent aware that there is a significant IT company like WGS in Bandung.

In summary, WGS partnership with ITHB includes:

• ITHB provides a database of superior graduates, and together with WGS persuades the students to join WGS
• Avoid brain-drain and start persuading graduates to contribute as much as possible inside our beloved Indonesia
• WGS provides consultation to ITHB lecturers, including together build a curriculum, to better-prepare ITHB students into the real-world IT industry, especially the hot web sector
• WGS will offer tens of Internship positions to ITHB students

WGS hopes to have more partnership with other universities around Bandung!

The gathering is on Saturday 22nd of January, and the goal of this gathering is

• To eat together, BBQ yay!
• To give out salary increase commitment to every eligible employees (we do this twice a year!)
• And most importantly, to listen to employees’ questions and concerns. To do this we collect anonymous paper with critiques, comments, etc regarding their job & career at WGS, and then answering it in a Q&A style by me & Feby Artandi.

It was a motivating and refreshing 4 hours indeed!

Here is a photo of everyone (well, almost)

Every 6 months, in June and December, we made major revisions to our company policies and procedures. This month, we moved all our documents from Google Docs to Google Sites. The new Google Sites contain complete policies and procedures (which become ever more important with the increasing number of employees), the organization structure for 2011, and job descriptions for each position. Once socialized, we’ll hold a Q&A session in January with all of our employees.

We formalized the four external divisions for 2011. They are Outsourcing, Government, Enterprise, and Software, and each has its own revenue / growth target. The two internal divisions are our engines: HR and Technology.

Outsourcing division, headed by Eric Rusli, aims to add 40 more developers working for our outsourcing clients via our service marks KiranaTama and Qorser. Government division, headed by Deny Nursyam, and Enterprise division, headed by Abdul Karim, each aims for a respectable revenue target with set strategies and budget. The Software division, headed by Thomas Muliawan, aims to complete and launch our horizontal applications by this year, and make our products known.

The Technology division, headed by William Notowidagdo, will be strengthen. Some new measures are introduced such as separation of QA unit from the Project Management unit, and introduction of a Maintenance Unit to handle problematic projects. The HR division, headed by Feby Artandi, aims to be able to recruit when needed (such as by strike partnership with universities around Bandung), keeping employees happy (retain them longer than a year or two), and make English training compulsory (both grammar and conversation) to help propell our Outsourcing division to get to the next level.

That’s it. 2011 here we come!

So we closed off our two small offices at Flamboyan and Adimaja, while keeping the Pasir Koja office. We hope our company growth keeps going and the new empty office spaces can be filled soon. Here the front photo of our Karapitan office.

Karapitan Office

To celebrate this new office, on Saturday the 27th of November we held a simple celebratory lunch with the traditional yellow rice (”Tumpengan”).

The current wgs.co.id website doesnt tell much about us. Even our own employees thought the WGS website doesnt portray an IT company. It doesnt try to sell anything but career to prospective employees! I totally agree, but even as I have known this for a long time, there is no one to work on updating the website! Updating the website (and internet marketing in general) has become an afterthought, as even without it, we keep growing to a current headcount of 90 employees.

However we realize the bigger we are, the more necessary is a strong sales & marketing team. Be paranoid: imagine not only we cannot grow anymore, but the scary thought of having a lot of idle engineers! So in the past couple of months we have hired another salesperson for our overseas SMB division, KiranaTama, a new salesperson for our venture in domestic enterprise market as an Oracle Gold partner, a three-person internet marketing team, and two salespeople for our government division, Qorser.

We also face an at best linear growth: if we grow, we have to hire more people. Low productivity is also shadowing our company. We cannot increase prices and yet we have to keep increasing salaries to keep our best talents! To grow exponentially, and to increase productivity per employee, and to transform ourselves from a mere workshop, we have to have a product. So we assign a team currently building an SaaS product for the Indonesian SMB market – to be launched early 2011.

In the Engineering division, we are introducing a new position, VP of Project Management, who’s taking the responsibility of overseeing our Project Managers. Thus I hope our CTO have more time to pursue our longer-term vision – that is to achieve CMMI.
In Indonesia there are reportedly only two companies with CMMI level 3. We want to be the third by 2013!

In Human Resources, it seems that the bigger we are, the easier it is to find and retain good talents. Two years ago, very few employees think of working at WGS long term. Many see our company as merely a stepping stone – and those who doesnt, gets bored in less than 1 year and similarly left. We have now found many ways to keeping good talents, among them are: we need to provide fresh challenges all the time, we need to have employees in control of their own career, we need them working for a purpose. Now the people who want to leave WGS is the tiny minority.

The biggest (and most expensive) problem is now office space. We have to operate our two old offices as the current office can no longer hold everyone in, and yet the lease contract is still one year away to end. But I shouldnt grumble about it – it is a blessing that so far we can still grow, and thus contribute more IT to the world.

That’s all the updates for now, happy Idul Fitri and happy holidays!