If your organization is facing unwarranted chaos of multiple activities and work complexities, then you should need an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. However, bringing in ERP is a costly and time consuming preposition. Apart from this, it is also an alarming fact that around 60 percent of ERP projects fail due to one reason or other. Through this article, we are spotlighting few tips that will help in ensuring successful ERP implementation.Add paragraph text here.
Identify Problem – Why Your Business Needs an ERP?
ERP can streamline your business processes by eliminating several repetitive processes. As organizations crave for greater work efficiency, NetSuite ERP reduces the traditional practice of manually keeping the track of information. By bringing every aspect of your business at one place, ERP delivers real-time view of KPIs, enabling well-informed, data-driven decision making. With ERP, you will be able to controlling your costs and even improving your production levels. So, identifying bottlenecks and real pain-points is important.
Smarter Evaluation of the Scope
ERP evaluation is the process of identify gaps in your processes and available solution. In this process, ERP implementation partner suggests how to connect your ERP with your current business processes. If ERP evaluation is not done properly and gaps are ignored then these gaps may turn into large holes within your implementation. Statistics suggests that 61.1% of ERP implementations take longer than expected and 74.1% of ERP projects exceed budget. The reason for this unclear definition of ERP requirement causes delays and over budgeting. With ERP Evaluation, your implementation partner clearly identify gaps, define the scope of project and also provide you estimation related to customization and integration of your existing system.
Data Migration
It is an important aspect of successful ERP implementation. If you get it right, you’ll have built a solid foundation on which to continue your implementation efforts. Get it wrong, and things may start to crumble. Some of the steps in this include
- Data cleansing and verification
- Database setup
- Mapping legacy data to new database fields
- Data transfer to the new system
- Testing and verification of legacy data
- Testing and verification of new data inputs
Testing & Training
System and user acceptance testing is quite an important phase. You should test all the final reports like business reports and accounting reports. You need to confirm accuracy of data migration along with functionality of different modules. You would want to make sure that your staff is trained well enough to handle the ERP.
Bottom Line
These are few tips that can help in successful ERP implementation. Apart from these tips finding right implementation partner is the key to success. If you have chosen NetSuite as an ERP, then reliable NetSuite Solution Partner can ensure your success. NetSuite implementation Partner can customize the NetSuite to the needs, schedules, and idiosyncracies as per your unique business requirements to maximize your success.
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