Lean & Operational Excellence and Independent ERP Consultants

Many organisations fail to deliver the benefits which were envisaged in the original business case for their ERP system investment. The ERP Assessment is designed to rapidly identify opportunities for improvement and help organisations to drive further returns from their initial investments.

For many organisations the implementation of a new ERP system does not deliver the full return on investment originally expected. Some of the common reasons for this are:

• Lack of focus on benefits realisation during implementation.
• Taking inadequate account of process and organisational change.
• Insufficient education and training of the users.
• Postponement of the implementation of some parts of the system due to implementation fatigue or budgetary constraints.

  When this happens, a very expensive asset is being significantly under-utilised. The ERP Assessment is a low cost approach to identifying opportunities for improvement and presenting potential benefits to the senior management team.  

Deliverables

• An assessment of current operations and of how the ERP system is being used to support and improve the business processes.
• Analysis of results and identification of opportunities for improvement.
• A high level estimate of the potential benefits resulting from those opportunities.
• A prioritised list of potential improvement initiatives.
• A feedback presentation to senior management outlining the potential benefits and proposed implementation approach.

 Benefits

• Most of the cost of the ERP system implementation has already been incurred – the ERP Assessment is about identifying how to drive further benefits from the initial investment.
• The assessment and feedback processes are highly engaging and interactive, which helps to build ownership and commitment to the improvement initiatives.
• Many of the initiatives identified are likely to be low investment in relation to the return, and therefore will be self funding.

Why BSM?

• BSM is ERP system independent and will not try to sell you additional software that you do not need.
• BSM consultants have a deep knowledge of ERP system capability and can bring experience of how other organisations have improved performance through ERP.
• BSM has extensive experience of business process improvement and change management – factors which may not have been addressed in the original ERP implementation.