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Many foreign trade enterprise managers have recognized the importance of using foreign trade software and considered using information technology to improve the core competitiveness of enterprises. However, how to select the right foreign trade software for the market?

First, it depends on whether the software development platform is flexible.

Foreign trade enterprises are constantly developing and changing. The same enterprise has different requirements for software systems at different times and at different stages of development. For example, after an enterprise implements the foreign trade software, one year or even half a year, the market environment changes, the enterprise scale changes, and its management mode, organization, and business process will change accordingly. What's more, the demand will also change constantly during the project implementation process. This requires the platform to be flexible enough. Its scalability, changeability and scalability are very good. It can grow with the growth of users, and will not become a shackle to the growth of users. However, the rigid software architecture cannot meet the changing needs of enterprises, resulting in repeated investment and waste of software.

Secondly, it depends on whether the software is professional and whether there are industry solutions.

The foreign trade industry involves a lot of aspects and has a myriad of problems. A good software should be very familiar with the foreign trade process. Its design management idea should be commensurate with the actual situation of the industry and can grasp the key points. However, some foreign trade software companies ignore the differences in industry characteristics and product specifications in their standardized software, and claim to be able to do anything in any industry. The consequences can be imagined. Therefore, professional foreign trade software will, on the basis of introducing advanced management concepts at home and abroad, learn from advanced application models and management practices in the same industry, fully reflect the industry characteristics of the enterprise in the form of industry solutions, and quickly build customer personalized ERP application systems.

Finally, it depends on whether the system can be fully integrated.

Now the business needs of foreign trade enterprises are complex, and OA, MIS, WF, etc. have been difficult to clearly define. Due to management needs, foreign trade enterprises often need to use multiple application systems. However, if the compatibility of foreign trade software is poor and it is difficult to integrate closely between various systems, then the "interlocking" businesses of enterprises are "separated" by these decentralized systems, and enterprises have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to switch between different application systems, resulting in low operational efficiency and slow response. Therefore, enterprises should choose foreign trade software with strong integration, which can seamlessly integrate business systems with mail management, fax management, message management, workflow management, search engine, SMS management, document management, etc., to truly achieve the management requirements of "data integration, business collaboration, and centralized management", and fundamentally avoid the emergence of "application islands".

The above three points are the most important criteria for selecting foreign trade software. According to the above criteria, I believe you will be able to select the most suitable foreign trade management software for your enterprise.