How to successfully implement an ERP

Gustavo Zientek

• Publisher: PublishDrive
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9783947921195
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Consulting
• Index: Business

This book is intended to provide insights to companies interested in growing and in improving their administrative processes. Usually, we are all thinking about selling, depositing the checks, finding people, shipping products or delivering projects, and the administrative process are for most CEO's not relevant. Actually, we all heard many CEO's saying: I don't care how you do it, but get it done! But the "How To" becomes extremely important to be efficient, have control of the operation, and obtain the right data out of the system.

It is too easy to be caught up in the frenzy of the day, chasing people, products, orders, checks, and accounting tends to receive little focus for many. This is why I worked on this book. Every CEO should pay attention that once you did your first few steps as an entrepreneur (getting customers and start operating) there are formalities you need to have in order to guarantee registering all data correctly. Not just for the Department of Revenue or the IRS, but also for you. At the end of the day, the most valuable component in your business is your data. That is why having a secured, efficient and auditable system of record to store your data and be able to exploit that data via KPI's Dashboards and reports becomes critical for your success.

This book is not intended to teach experienced consultant how to implement their ERP. But rather to give the newcomers to the ERP world an insight of that they should do to implement a system successfully. This is not just my opinion, but because I used ChatGPT to write this book, the contents are what it is on the internet available already. I directly the information in order to give it a structure that made sense to me. Most implementation partners already have their own methodology, that is why this books is intended to companies that are planning to implement an ERP for the first time.

Many companies put more focus in the Change Management, other ignore it completely. We can't stress how important it is to have a Project Manager or at least one person responsible for gathering the data and preparing the data and to be the sole point of contact with the partner that is implementing the system with you.

Last, I want to give many thanks to Joe Martin and Jose Fernandez Calvo for giving me ideas in how to use GPT-3 OpenAI large-scale language-generation model (aka ChatGPT) and in helping me with the technicalities not related to ERP implementation but rather in publishing this book. I also want to thank the team at Consultare America LLC that cheered when I told them that I was writing this book and encouraged me to finish it

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is an ERP System
• 3. When is it a good time to upgrade to a new ERP system?
• 4. Understanding Business Requirements
• 5. Planning and Preparation
• 6. Selecting the Right ERP Solution for Your Business
• 7. Defining and Documenting Business Processes
• 8. Data Migration and Data Management
• 9. ERP System Configuration and Customization
• 10. Testing and Quality Assurance for ERP Implementation
• 11. Training and Change Management for ERP Adoption
• 12. Go-Live and Post-Implementation Support
• 13. ERP System Integration and Interoperability
• 14. Continuous Improvement and Optimization
• 15. Partner Selection, Experience, and References