When a project team launches an ERP selection project, the primary focus is typically placed on the ERP system's features and functions. Yet the organization can greatly improve the chance that the project meets the desired future state when it focuses on business process transformation.
Written by the consultants who run these selections, not by a software vendor.
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When a project team launches an ERP selection project, the primary focus is typically placed on the ERP system's features and functions. Yet the organization can greatly improve the chance that the project meets the desired future state when it focuses on business process transformation. This paper makes the case that an ERP evaluation project will deliver
an improved future state, and thereby ROI if it is built on business process improvement methodologies and is driven by more than technology or system features. Instead, the most successful projects take the time to develop ERP selection decision drivers that match critical "future state" requirements to the system features offered by the technology solution.
Business Process Improvement: The Place to Start
Decision Drivers: Aligning Software Selection with the Needs of the Business
Key Categories of Decision Drivers
Setting Strategic Decision Drivers vs. the Traditional RFP Process
Better Business Outcomes
About Ultra Consultants The decision to upgrade or implement a new ERP system is likely one of the most complex and resourceintensive initiatives a company will face.