• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Ultra Consultants

OUR INDEPENDENT ERP CONSULTANTS DELIVER 100% CLIENT SATISFACTION

  • Services
    • Back
      • Business Process Improvement
        • Business Process Reengineering
        • Business Process Analysis
        • Business Process Documentation
        • Business Process Mapping
        • Business Process Review
      • Enterprise Software Selection
        • ERP Selection
        • ERP RFP (Request for Proposal)
        • ERP RFP Preparation
        • ERP Readiness Assessment
        • ERP Selection Criteria
        • ERP Requirements Definition
      • Enterprise Software Implementation
        • ERP Implementation Plan Creation
        • ERP Data Conversion
        • ERP Reports
        • ERP Implementation
      • Industry Compliance Services
      • Business Process Transformation
      • Organizational Change Management
      • Enterprise Project Management
      • Get your roadmap for business process improvement
  • Industries & Clients
    • Back
      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Automotive
      • Chemical
      • Consumer Goods
      • Distribution
      • Electronic & Equipment
      • Food & Beverage
      • Industrial Equipment
      • Medical Devices & Products
      • Metal Fabrication
      • Pharmaceutical
      • Plastics
      • Read about driving ROI in your ERP project
  • Software & Vendors
    • Back
      • ERP
        • Discrete Manufacturing ERP Software
        • Process Manufacturing ERP Software
        • Distribution ERP Software
      • ERP Software for Sales and Marketing
        • CRM Software
        • Marketing Automation Software
        • eCommerce Solutions
      • Supply Chain Management Software
        • Demand Management Software
        • Transportation Management Software
        • Advanced Planning & DRP Software
        • Finite Scheduling Software
      • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
      • Warehouse Management Software
      • Manufacturing Execution System Software Vendors
      • Field Service Management Software Vendors
      • Learn about software selection decision drivers
  • Education
    • Back
      • Resources
        • Events & Webinars
        • White Papers
        • ERP Case Studies
      • Media
        • On-Demand Webinars
        • ERP Podcast
        • ERP Videos
      • Take Your Free ERP Health Check
  • Company
    • Back
      • About Ultra
        • Our Team
        • History
        • Awards
        • Careers
        • Independent ERP Consultants
      • News
        • ERP Media Coverage
        • Press Releases
        • ERP Newsletter
      • Read about choosing an independent consultant.
  • ERP Blog
  • Contact Us
    • Back
Home / ERP Blog 10.07.15 / Project Management / Your Team Structure is Critical to Enterprise Transformation
10.07.15

Your Team Structure is Critical to Enterprise Transformation

Business TeamWhat’s the best IT team structure for true business process transformation?  That’s a question we hear regularly from the manufacturing and distribution teams looking to work effectively as they start an ERP project.

It’s important that the company set the best organizational structure to support the business transformation plan. When the plan calls for a consolidation of systems into a single instance ERP, the team structure is especially critical due to the integration points throughout the departments and functional areas.

Looking further, there are many distinct integration points between the companies that support the move to a single “Multi-company” ERP system. The scope of the planned systems and organizational change is substantial. In most cases, we see three distinct areas as providing leadership and management of integration points, and they involve Program Management, Functional, Technical, and Data.

IT Team Structure

The Program Management office will be a cross functional management team to which the CIO will be a member along with key executives from each of the companies. This team will constantly review progress along the defined transformation roadmap and adjust priorities based on defined ROI, risk, and pre-requisite parameters. We are in the early stages of the project and this team has been heavily involved in defining the business case, identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating feasibility of the various classes of software involved in the transformation, and assessing the scope of organizational change and completing a stakeholder assessment. The CIO in partnership with the Ultra Senior Manager is serving a key facilitation role during the PMO meetings.

A Functional team will consist of business process owners, IT business analysts, Ultra business analysts, and ERP functional consultants. Like many rapidly growing mid-size enterprises, the company is struggling to fully backfill their key process owners. To compensate we will establish IT Business Analysts that will aligned with the process owners. They will assist with system documentation, development of training materials and will become proficient in the parts of the software applicable to their scope of support. This will include screen tailoring. The IT Analysts will develop specifications for required enhancements and report development. During their ramp up Ultra Business Analysts and Change Manager will be providing additional support. The IT Business Analysts will take the lead on user training and assume functional support concurrent with go-live.

The Technical Team will consist of an IT Technology Manager overseeing sub-teams focused on Network Architecture, ERP software deployment, Report Development, Interface Development, Enhancement Management, System Integration, ERP Data Conversion, User Security, etc. Ultra’s Technology Manager is partnering with the IT Technology Manager to ensure proper architecture decisions are in place with clear responsibilities and accountabilities among the various technology partners in play.

The Data Team will consist of data analysts and a database administrator. The consolidation of the systems will require a major rationalization of the de-normalized master files with heavy ETL (extract transform load) work. The data analysts will identify the sources of the key legacy master data and catalog the data elements of each file. In partnership with the ERP functional consultants the data analysts will identify the target formats for the tables and write ETL specifications for the technical team.

 

Tweet
Share
Share

Categories: Project Management Tags: ERP, ERP Project Team

Related Articles

  • 03.28.17Business Team

    The Best IT Team Structure to Support an Enterprise Transformation

    Posted in: Project Management
  • 08.12.20

    Remote Management Expertise Key to Successful ERP Projects Amid Pandemic

    Posted in: ERP Best Practices, Project Management
  • 11.28.16An Introduction to Ultra and Our Role in the ERP Project Management Plan

    An Introduction to Ultra and Our Role in the ERP Project Management Plan

    Posted in: Project Management

About Richard Sides

Richard Sides

Richard has over 20 years technology-related operational experience assisting manufacturing and distribution organizations improving their business processes and supporting information systems. Mr. Sides has a BS in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from DePaul University.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Comment Cancel

sidebar

Blog Sidebar

Let's talk about
improving your
processes >>

Read an ERP success story >>

View white
paper library >>

Subscribe to the Ultra ERP Blog

Insight right into your in-box! Enter your email address for email notifications of new posts and be "in the know."

By filling out this form, I acknowledge that I have read, consent to, and agree to be bound by, the terms of Ultra's Privacy Policy, and that I am subscribing to Ultra's ERP Newsletter.

As an independent consultancy, Ultra does not endorse vendors participating in educational content.

Categories

  • Careers
  • Continuous Improvement
  • ERP Best Practices
  • ERP Software Vendors
  • ERP Success Stories
  • News and Events
  • Project Management
  • Stories from the Field
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Technology Evaluation
  • The ERP Industry
  • Uncategorized

Stay Connected

Stay informed about ERP evaluation, selection and
implementation. Subscribe to Ultra's eNewsletter.

Social Media

FacebookTwitterYoutubeLinkedin

312-319-1411 | Copyright © 2020 Ultra Corporation | All Rights Reserved | Sitemap |

Website by Web Savvy Marketing