You Have Implemented ERP – Now, How Do You Extract the Promised Value?
Happy New Year! We hope you’re kicking off 2012 with a commitment to continued ERP success.
ERP Planning Tip #7: Prioritizing Planning Messages and Signals
In our previous planning tip, we discussed how to maintain timely and accurate planning data. In this final series of tips, we cover the day-in-the-life planning procedures that flow from the planning engine’s outputs.
Using Business Software to Achieve Lean Manufacturing For Profitability
This article – provided by ERP vendor SYSPRO – outlines how enterprise business software can help manufacturing companies implement Lean fundamentals.
Mobility and the Enterprise: How to Build a Business Case for Mobile ERP
Whether businesses like it or not, they have to be agile to succeed. If managing extreme economic volatility wasn’t challenging enough, businesses also have to contend with shifts caused by natural disasters (e.g., the Japanese supply disruption), faster cycles of technological innovation and obsolescence, and structural shifts in the labour market.
Finding the Balance: When ERP and Business Needs Conflict
The current economic climate is causing many organizations to rethink their ERP projects – whether selection, implementation or optimization. Many businesses are now hesitating because they’re no longer sure that it’s in their best interests to fund the projects or to divert precious human capital resources.
ERP Project Managers: How Technical Do They Have To Be?
Once again, the folks at Focus.com have stimulated a timely conversation – this time about IT project management credentials. Caty Kobe, a Community Manager at Focus.com, asked “Does a project manager need to have an IT background?”.
FusionIS Uses Pemeco’s Milestone Deliverables to Drive Successful Implementation at Johannesburg Metrobus
On December 1, 2010, Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Service (Metrobus) went live on Oracle’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software. Metrobus now relies on the software to manage its fleet of 532 commuter buses, which collectively transport 90,000 passengers per day.
Reframing ERP Contract Negotiations to Drive Implementation Success
Really, now. Is this just another example of an author using an alarmist title for shameless promotion? Or, is there actual substance behind my bold claim that ERP contract negotiations – which, by the way, are fully completed before ERP implementation even starts – can actually be a key driver of implementation success?
ERP Implementation Tip #23: Modifications, Customizations, Personalizations & Interface Projects
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we laid out the key components of an actionable data migration plan.
This week, we circle back and cover customizations, personalizations and interface projects. These projects are intended to extend the functionality of the ERP or IT software into areas that are not covered by out-of-the-box functionality.
ERP Implementation Tip #22: Four Components of a Data Migration Plan
In last week’s ERP implementation tip, we laid out the key concepts of data migration. This week, we breakdown the four key components of an actionable data migration plan.
