Re-Implementation of ERP Could Reduce Costs
Posted by Diane Ramaglia on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 @ 09:22 AM
When a company purchases a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system there are any number of reasons why they have made that decision. A company would normally have a project team that will implement the system and they are considered the in-house experts for their functional areas. They go down the path of implementing specific modules and during that time they might hold off on improving or implementing other modules that might streamline their business processes. They might say, let's do this at a later date and focus on what is critical at that time.
A common theme is that they are live on the system and they never seem to go back and look at what they can still improve. They get busy with their day-to-day activities or employees that were on the implementation team leave and no one takes over that expertise. So there is minimum improvement while they are using the system.
When a company spends that much money on software and consulting services, I would think that they would want to improve and streamline their business processes because, in the end, it would be a cost savings. You could possibly remove staff that is no longer needed or you may have an increase in business and not have to add more staffing.
As a manager of a Professional Service department for an ERP system, I am starting to see an increase in companies that are re-implementing because they see the benefit. Is this something your company would be interested in doing?