How to Overcome User Resistance to New ERP Systems
A scenario that happens more than it should: A company invests in and implements a new ERP system, but its users don’t fully adopt it.
Change Management
6 Software Selection & Implementation Pain Points (and Proven Solutions)
Establishing accurate requirements and relevant priorities
Incorrect requirements will yield the wrong software choice, and faulty priorities direct attention and effort away from core issues.
Food & Beverage ERP Insight: The Best Solution May Not Be a Big Solution
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.
The Seventh Deadly Sin of ERP Implementation
Poor change management is perhaps the most avoidable cause of project problems and failure. Resistance to change, even positive change, is normal and expected human behavior – and plans must be made to minimize its impact.
The Third Deadly Sin of ERP Implementation
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.
The Second Deadly Sin of ERP Implementation
Organizations invest in ERP to enable greater execution and efficiency. So it makes no sense to implement a solution that simply automates your existing processes.
Case Study: Greater Efficiency Requires Organizational Change
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.”
ERP Conversation: ‘Hidden’ Manufacturing Capacity and Smart Technologies
Most manufacturers have a “hidden factory” that runs in parallel to their primary manufacturing plant. It’s the unused capacity caused by quality issues, process inefficiencies, rework, schedule loss, availability loss, and performance loss.
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See Why Change Management is Critical for Your ERP Project
Most project teams coming out of a successful technology initiative would agree that change management is critical for your ERP project.