ERP Implementation

Your Straightforward Guide to ERP Implementation

Lean Consulting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tend to be so closely related as they both look at process and increasing productivity. Companies that utilize a Lean specialist for ERP implementation benefit by gaining an entire holistic analysis of how ERP changes will affect the company.

Applied Performance takes the traditional ERP implementation process and flips it around. Rather than focusing on how to integrate your company into using a specific tool, we focus on a how ERP will integrate into your company.

The truth is most ERP implementations do not deliver the savings they are supposed to and often cost more than they were meant. Often, they end up as data capture tools principally used by finance, instead of the being the management support tools they are meant to be.

In fact, as shown by Panorama Consulting, in 2013 of those companies doing an ERP implementation:

• 53% experience a cost over run
• 61% experience a implementation duration over run
• 60% receiving 50% or less or anticipated benefits

Do Not Be Another ERP Implementation Statistic

Our role is to ensure you do not end up as one of these stats. Our approach is different and focuses on the value your company delivers to its customers and how can you maximise the opportunities to deliver customer value.

Our ERP approach focuses on your company and your customer’s needs and typically goes through the following:

• Future state – where does your company want to be?
• What are the resources you have available (cost, time, people)?
• What are your key processes?
• Where do you add value as a company?
• How should these work in a perfect world?
• What are the constraints you face (internal, external, resources, culture)?
• What are the IT options available to you?

• Meet the implementation team not just the salesman!
• Make the choice and pull the trigger

• Who is going to communicate what and when?
• What do your process gaps look like and how will you manage them (they will exist, whatever your provider says
• What are the key opportunities and needs to streamline processes?
• What will be your new working practices be?
• How much will people’s, roles and training need to change?
• Who will be the expert users?
• Issue monitoring and close out

At Applied Performance, we have relationships with local Calgary and Edmonton IT and ERP providers to assist you with the best selection and implementation process. If these providers do not have what you need, we will help source the solution that will fit your company’s needs…and not the retailer’s!

We are here to make all your implementations into a Lean organization as easy as possible. Contact us at 403-470-1659 or email info@appliedperformance.ca to learn how!