More often than not, ERP implementations fail to deliver their potential value. Even if you have selected a product that is a good fit for your operations, there are many risks that can jeopardize your ERP project's success.
Risk Factors that leads towards failures are
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Lack of alignment between Business Strategies, Plans and process with ERP Solution
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Lack of knowledge of understanding your business by the consultants of Implementation partner
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Relaying too much on customization
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Lack of participation by company employees during implementation
How to mitigate above risks
Based on our experience of working with large number of companies, we have found following process has helped companies get 100% success
Set tangible goals and expectations before signing a deal.
The company’s goals may be
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Establishing best business practices across the organization
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Remove all inefficient business process across the organization so that cycle time of operation reduces greatly resulting in cost reduction
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Compliance to regulatory requirements so that your organization meets the stake holders, vendors and customers expectations
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Creating visibility of your business operations to all the key stake holders so that decision are made in real time
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Bench marking your cost structure vs. best managed companies in your industry
Understanding your business by specialist
No software can by itself understand how to run your business. Success of Implementation and making it work for you is done by the consultants of Implementation Partner. It is extremely important to have consultants who know your Industry dynamics, who have worked in your industry and those who speak the same language as you do. These specialist consultants along with the software guide for achieving success.
Customization
It is nice to have each and every business processes mapped in the solution and deployed in your organization. Kindly note that you will not get any software (unless custom developed) that meets your 100% requirement. You have to choose the software that comes near to your expectation.
SAP being in Business for more than 30 years and having worked with hundreds of companies of your type has developed best practice solution. On top this solution we at SpectraSoft, based on our experience of working with more than 60+ customers of your vertical, have mapped processes that are vital and essential for your business operations in the solution.
Hence you get your industry specific pre- configured solution.
When we deploy a pre configured solution at your company, you can be guaranteed that our solution meets more than 90% of your requirement. This is the nearest you get to 100%. You should agree to customization only if it is mandatory.
Participation
When your company decided to transform itself to a new form of working, it is important, your company’s core team ( people who are part of implementation) should spend time and understand how new business solution add value to your business. This ensures quick deployment and start to see return on investment
Getting started
SpectraSoft can assist you in understand the business benefit of deploying a solution to your company. You can demand for a no obligation meeting. You can call us or send a mail. |