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Home / ERP Blog 05.14.15 / ERP Best Practices / How to Use ERP Implementation Best Practices to Navigate Through Your Project
05.14.15

How to Use ERP Implementation Best Practices to Navigate Through Your Project

ImplementationERP Implementations projects are some of the largest, longest and most complex business engagements for an organization. To aid in the smoothest project possible it is necessary to deploy ERP implementation best practices to help reduce risk and increase the chances of reaching the project’s goals.

What Are Best Practices?

Best practices are methods that lead us to the best result for an ERP project more often than alternative approaches. When it comes to these projects, there are hundreds of ERP implementation best practives for every step and phase of the engagement. Here are just a few that will help you avoid common project pitfalls.

Establish a Project Governance Model

Establishing a project governance model and a corresponding project team is an ERP implementation best practice that is relevant to all organizations regardless of industry or size. A project governance model determines the route by which issues and concerns are escalated and decisions are made. Without a governance model, an organization will struggle with making critical project decisions, incurring unplanned and costly delays. It is important the new team members be educated on the governance model so everyone understands how decisions will be made.

Invest in Business Testing

Preparing for true business testing is another item within ERP implementation best practices. Too many ERP pilot tests rely on functional testing and lose track of testing integrated business scenarios. ERP implementation best practices tell us to focus early and often on designing business test cases that reflect the real world. These test cases or scenarios must be developed by the ERP project team and should reflect our business. Modeling real world orders and projects is always good place to start. The team should review the nuances and ensure the test cases reflect the details.

Why ERP Implementation Best Practices Are Important

ERP implementation best practices are our best option to reduce risks and ensure a successful project. Ultra works with clients to deploy ERP implementation best practices not only to ensure a successful implementation, but to help our clients realize the business performance objectives that required the project in the first place.

To learn more about this subject, refer to our whitepaper “Best Practices for an Effective ERP Implementation.”

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About Andrew Bolivar

Andrew Bolivar

Andrew Bolivar is Director of Ultra's Center of Excellence and Senior Consultant with deep experience in business process improvement with a focus in the manufacturing and distribution sectors. Mr. Bolivar started his career in project administration for a national food manufacturer. He spent several years engineering and implementing inventory and production processes across multiple sites. He strived to develop best practices; designing and deploying business processes that leveraged technology to enable process control and capture business data. In 2007 Andrew moved on to become a presales engineer for a leading ERP provider; providing software demonstrations and presales support. He also provided project management services for implementations. Andrew continues his career with Ultra providing process improvement and project management services. He has experience with both ERP and CRM including NetSuite, Microsoft, SalesForce, JD Edwards and others. Andrew has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

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