Get the Most Out of Your ERP
In today’s connected world, the continuous optimization of enterprise applications to realize your digital strategy is key.
- ERP systems are changed rarely, and changing them has a significant impact on an organization.
- Research shows that even newly installed systems often fail to realize their full potential benefit to the organization.
- Business process improvement is rarely someone’s day job.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- A properly optimized ERP business process will reduce costs and increase productivity.
Impact and Result
- Build a ERP Optimization Team to conduct ongoing application improvements.
- Assess your application(s) and the environment in which they exist. Use a business-first strategy to prioritize optimization efforts.
- Validate your capabilities, user satisfaction, issues around data, vendor management, and costs to build out an optimization strategy.
- Pull this all together to develop a prioritized optimization roadmap.
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$6,499
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Guided Implementation
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Workshop: Get the Most Out of Your ERP
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Define Your ERP Application Vision
The Purpose
Get the most out of your ERP.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Develop an ERP Optimization Team.
- Re-align your ERP and business goals.
- Understand your current system state capabilities and processes.
- Validate user satisfaction, application fit, and areas of improvement to optimize your ERP.
- Take a 360o inventory of your ERP and related systems.
- Realign business and technology drivers. Assess user satisfaction.
- Review the ERP marketplace.
- Complete a thorough examination of capabilities and processes.
- Manage your vendors and data.
- Pull this all together to prioritize optimization efforts and develop a concrete roadmap.
Activities
Outputs
Determine your ERP Optimization Team.
- ERP Optimization Team
Align your organizational goals.
- ERP business model
- ERP optimization goals
Inventory your applications and interactions.
- ERP system inventory and data flow
Define your business capabilities.
- ERP process list
Explore ERP-related costs.
- ERP-related costs
Module 2: Map Current State Capabilities
The Purpose
Map your current state capabilities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Complete an ERP process gap analysis to understand where your ERP is underperforming.
- Review your ERP application portfolio assessment to uncover user satisfaction and data concerns.
- Undertake a survey (using information from SoftwareReviews) to quantify your satisfaction with your vendor and product.
Activities
Outputs
Conduct a gap analysis for ERP processes.
- ERP process gap analysis.
Perform an application portfolio assessment (APA).
- ERP application portfolio assessment (APA)
Review vendor satisfaction.
- ERP SoftwareReviews survey
Module 3: Assess ERP
The Purpose
Assess your ERP.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Learn which processes you need to focus on.
- Uncover underlying user satisfaction issues so you can plan to address these areas.
- Understand where data issues are occurring so you can mitigate them.
- Investigate your relationship with the vendor and product and compare it with others' experiences.
- Identify any areas for cost optimization (optional).
Activities
Outputs
Explore process gaps.
- ERP process optimization priorities
Analyze user satisfaction.
Assess data quality.
Understand product satisfaction and vendor management.
- ERP vendor optimization opportunities
Look for ERP cost optimization opportunities (optional).
- ERP cost optimization (optional)
Module 4: Build Your Optimization Roadmap
The Purpose
Build your optimization roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand where you need to improve to better focus your optimization efforts.
Activities
Outputs
Perform an ERP process gap analysis.
Undertake an ERP application portfolio assessment (APA).
Identify key optimization areas.
Develop your ERP optimization roadmap.
- ERP optimization plan
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Map current state capabilities
- Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenge.
- Call 2: Build the ERP team and align organizational goals.
Guided Implementation 2: Assess your current state
- Call 1: Map current state, inventory ERP processes, and explore ERP-related costs.
- Call 2: Conduct a gap analysis for ERP processes and prepare an application portfolio assessment.
Guided Implementation 3: Build your optimization roadmap
- Call 1: Understand product satisfaction and vendor management. Look for ERP cost optimization opportunities (optional).
- Call 2: Review your application portfolio assessment (APA) results.
- Call 3: Identify key optimization areas. Build out your optimization roadmap and plan your next steps.
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