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ERP Evaluation Project Tips | When Evaluating ERP Software How Do You Ensure You Are Solving Real Business Issues?
April 02, 2012
Aether weighs in on the Focus ERP topic question: When Evaluating ERP Software How Do You Make Sure You're Solving Your Real Business Issues?
There are four key actions that you can do to ensure that an ERP evaluation project will focus on solving real business issues. These are activities that most companies undergoing an ERP evaluation should conduct before engaging a software vendor, but rarely do.
Fundamentally, these steps need to take place, whether you go through them before an evaluation, during an evaluation, or during your implementation -- because ERP software is just a tool. With unlimited time and money you can resolve just about any business issue with an ERP tool, but who has unlimited time or money? Call me if you fall into this category.
1. Evaluate and document your current business process and how it utilizes any existing software tools across all departments of the organization.
2. Have upper management agree on which business processes are challenged/prohibiting growth/draining resources and agree that they are willing to pay money to improve them.
3. Ask upper management to set the priority for which challenges should be addressed, in what order, and across what timeline.
4. Be able to explain your processes, priority and timeline to the software vendors you include in your ERP evaluation project.
With these steps complete, your ERP vendors will a) love working with you and b) be able to tell you how much it will cost for their tool and any necessary plug-ins or add-ons to resolve your business issues.
For more tips and tricks on conducting an ERP software evaluation for small and midsize businesses, see our website at http://www.aetherconsulting.com/sap-business-one/sap-business-one-cost.
Happy ERP shopping!
by Andrea Vermurlen, Marketing & Sales for Aether Consulting
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