Project - ERP Assessment Project

Lead the ERP Assessment project, with objective to determine benefit in replacing the existing local ERP solution (also used by another remote site), with a different ERP solution used throughout our European locations.  I decided to also consider replacing all of the ERP's with a new one.

I worked locally to document core departmental operations / procedures in Microsoft Visio. Then, working with department heads, I reviewed the working business processes (AP, AR, Production, Purchasing, Quality, Receiving, Sales Order Entry, and Shipping) at all the other locations by:

• creating a master process flow for each department based on the workflow at the local office
• training the department heads in Visio
• creating a group for each department
• providing each group with a version locked copy of my master process flow
• each goup used the Revise feature in Visio to edit in procedure changes as per their specific needs
• I then reviewed the differences and compiled a new global master document
  

This provided me with clear visibility on the differences and possible impacts / issues in implementing different ERP solutions. After careful analysis, and considering such things as; support language, support hours offered, availability of consultants, alignment of ERP functionality with requirements, differences in data processing procedures, customizations made to the systems, the customizations that would be required in provisioning of a new system, and costs, it was decided to keep the existing ERP for the interim.  

I recommended that the company move to a single Tier 1 ERP solution in the future, and drafted long-term road maps outlining required changes (global standards for stock code structures, standardized G/L coding definitions, alignment of business processes, reporting requirements, etc.).