ERP project success follows from a structured, purposeful approach aimed to help transition people, teams, and organizations from their current state to the desired future state. Included in this ERP methodology based on Ultra’s successful projects, here are change management and ERP lessons learned.
Manufacturers and distributors are implementing new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to streamline business processes, increase operational efficiency, improve the decision-making process and provide real-time visibility into their core business operations. However, an ERP system implementation is a significant undertaking that requires attention to every detail.
Most Food & Beverage organizations start ERP selection with a list of the biggest and best-known names in the ERP software marketplace, then research features, functionalities and total cost of ownership, and then schedule multiple rounds of sales presentations and demos.
A poorly planned enterprise resource planning (ERP) change management process is perhaps the most avoidable cause of project problems and failure. Resistance to change, even positive change, is normal and expected human behavior—so, plans must be made to minimize its impact. Read on for ERP change management best practices.
The IT department and the C-suite do not own (and may never interact with) your core business processes. So the project team should include key people—end users and functional managers—from across your organization who are regularly involved in those processes.
Pacific Plumbing Supply is a 71-year-old, family-owned and operated company, with 14 branch locations and 200 employees. “We weren’t looking to spend the kind of money it would take to implement a modern ERP solution,” Stafford continued, “but we understood that the ROI is in new capabilities and new tools we can use to operate more efficiently.”