What is ERP?
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is a business solution that, if implemented properly, has the potential to streamline production, and magnify customer engagement.
Business Processes
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is a business solution that, if implemented properly, has the potential to streamline production, and magnify customer engagement.
Strategic Projects & Planning
Our Agile/Scrum Project Management approach is aimed to increase velocity and deliver the right products. Strategic planning and road maps are also within this portfolio.
What is ERP Implementation?
It is a step-by-step process that encompasses;
- Analyzing current business strategies
- Planning
- Streamlining Operations
- Installing & Testing Programs
- Migrating Data
- Change Management
- Training
- Going Live
- Continuous monitoring & support
It is not a one-time action, but a continuous life cycle maintenance. Thus, ERP implementation involves specific expertise, and significant cost and time investment.
What is Business Process Management?
In simple words, Business Process Management is the over-all approach, an enterprise adopts to analyze, improve, and align their processes with their organizational objectives and strategies. It empowers business houses to become more agile in their operations, and more efficient in their service output.
Therefore, it is safe to concur that, Business Process Management is the road map to successful ERP implementations.
How can We Help?
- Research: We conduct an in-depth research to identify the need and scope of ERP solutions in your enterprise.
- Team: We appoint a team of experts, including analyst, developer, project manager, tester, who can carry out ERP implementations from end-to-end and also posses the necessary soft skills to communicate effectively across your organization.
- Action Plan: We evaluate your existing systems and incorporate Business Process Reengineering to transform the current operations into the desired format. We work closely with your in-house team and enable them to make informed decisions on which process to keep manual and which process to update. Then we present our action plan of how implementations will follow.
- Installation: We install the software, and build the infrastructure, covering relevant aspects, such as display devices, data collection, networking facilities, etc.
- Migration: We analyze your stored data for accuracy, and upon verification, our team members transfer the data and information to the new system.
- Testing: We rigorously test the software before going live, and post live, we confirm with all the internal business units whether their operations are going on seamlessly.
- Training: We provide opportunities to familiarize all users with the ERP implementations. We identify resistance, if any, and come up with feasible solutions.
- Deployment: Depending on the size of the organization, and the complexities of the ERP project, we roll out deployment, all at once, parallelly, or by phases.
- Support: We are ready to offer continuous maintenance and support even after the go-live date of the implementations. We recognize that identifying and fixing errors are an important part of the entire ERP life cycle.
Things To Consider
- Skill-Sets of the implementation team
- Investment on Change Management
- Forward Planning is important
- Time and Cost factors for long term ERP benefits
ERP implementations can be a long and daunting process. Carezian has in its arsenal, experience, and methodologies that can be curated according to your industry and business requirements. We minimize failure risks at every phase of the process, and guide you to choose only what is needed for optimizing operations, and increasing the bottom line.
