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Updated by SVAM International on Apr 24, 2021
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Developing The Right ERP Strategy To Make Implementation Smooth

All industries today need something that can help them make their processes streamlined to increase their overall efficiency. This is where the concept of digital transformation comes into the picture, and to help organizations realize this, various ERP solutions are available around the world. ERP or Enterprise Resouce Planning is a technological solution that brings together all essential processes in a business under one platform to make all core processes accessible and manageable.

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How To Develop An ERP Strategy Before Implementation?

How To Develop An ERP Strategy Before Implementation?

Identify Your Goals
Before implementing any technology, you need to be clear on what your goals are with that technology. ERP is one such technology that needs you to be clear of what your goals are. Your goals can be specific to your business, your process, or add value to your customers. Once you have your goals, you know what your end result is going to look like.

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Understand What Needs Improvement

Once you have the goals set, you need to begin identifying what needs to improve. You need to look at your processes and identify the scope of improvement. Any kind of functional, strategic and process-related improvements need you to be well versed with all the tasks from the ground up. Talk to the employees and understand where things are stressed and are causing problems in the end result.

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Prepare A Budget

Once you have the goals and understand what needs to change, then comes the tough talk. The budget needs to cover all costs that will come up front, funds to support the development and deployment of the solution, and a separate fund to cover all contingencies. In the end, even if your budget can go overboard, your funds will be able to help you instead of stopping things midway.

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Prepare a Roadmap

Your ERP Roadmap is how things are supposed to go. It is a map for your time to follow to ensure that the implementation goes smoothly and finishes on time, as was expected. This not only includes the milestones to achieve, but also the change management plan for your entire team, and a thorough risk assessment to make sure that when things go wrong, the processes can be reversed or reset to the previous version.

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Choose The Right Vendor

This is the most important part of ERP implementation. You need the right vendor ot to provide you with the right level of services and great satisfaction. You need thorough application maintenance and support services to get you through to a successful implementation of your plans.
At the other end of the tunnel of ERP implementation is an organization with impeccable processes. To make sure that it happens smoothly and without any roadblocks is the first and foremost thing that a business needs. And following these steps is how that becomes possible.