6 Basics and essentials to make your ERP implementation successful

Basics that can make your #ERP implementation successful…

First and most important thought while implementing any enterprise application; ‘it is always software that should fit your business and not the other way around’. All the process in any of the organization are defined and evolved over the period of time considering the strategic benefits to organizations and employees as well. If you are looking to buy and implement ERP, then there are a certain questions on how to make the entire initiative successful?

To best associate with businesses, managers and ERP providers themselves, use this list of prerequisites to make ERP implementation Successful:

1.  Planning in advance is important; it allows you to prioritize your requirements, get more attention of stakeholders and helps you to cover most of the business process areas into the organization. ERP implementations drive best when planned in advance.
2.  A astonishingly strong requirement document – An in depth requirement document always produce a great throttle response to your entire initiative of implementing ERP. A rock solid document with necessary details certainly would enable you and your vendor to do better cost estimations and exact scoping of the project. It always takes time to create the requirement document but it is a very good beginning.
3.  Participation of key stakeholders across each department from day 1 – Any organization, respective people knows processes the best. Needless to say, participation of key stakeholders across the department is essential in key phases of the project like RA workshops, CRPs, UAT etc
4.  Categorize the document as per process and write down scenarios along with validation from stakeholders – Every business person is well versed of business operations, the structure, growth and loop holes within the processes. For better understanding, segregate your requirement document in key process areas and write down scenarios and get it validated from concern stakeholders.
5.  Mark down which requirements are business critical, Ok to have and add your wish list- It is a pertinent thing that no standard software in the world can fit and match 100% of requirements of any organisation but it always brings the best practices to cater most of your business critical needs. If you categorize your requirements in parts e.g Critical-Must Have; Prospective-Want to have & wish list, it is always helpful to make your ERP evaluation process efficient.
6.  Evaluate product along with score parameters – Develop a structured evaluation plan which ties back to the goals and cost objectives that were set in the planning stage. After the system is set up or implemented, an audit should be performed to test whether the predicted Returns and benefits come in to being.

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