The high competitiveness that exists in the business world, drives companies to innovate in processes, methodologies and tools that can generate advantages over their strongest competitors.
On one side are customers demanding better products, better prices and better services, and on the other side are the companies that need to provide better service to their customers, be more efficient, optimize their costs, have more flexible processes and improve their timely response to the market.
The alignment of information technology with improvements in business processes have generated software packages to facilitate enterprise resource management, which are more commonly known as "ERP", English acronyms that mean "Enterprise Resource Planning ".
More and more companies need to implement an ERP system to grow and achieve a competitive advantage. Statistics from the business world, indicate that 85% of the most successful companies are using an ERP, and the fact that the 500 largest companies in the world use it, confirm this. However, only few business leaders have knowledge about everything that involves implementing an ERP and what is required to achieve it. They do not have a clear idea of how to structure, measure, justify, select, hire and manage its implementation.
What ERP should be implemented?
With whom should be implemented?
What should you ask?
What should you get?
How should you manage its implementation?
These are just some of the questions that surely will come to mind when thinking about implementing an ERP. The answers to these questions, will be found in so far as the reader progresses in the reading this book.
The author, thanks to his training and experience in projects like this, gives in this book his recommendations about the most important aspects to consider in order to assure a good selection and implementation. And he guides the reader through the entire project life cycle. This is, from 0 to 100.
The content of this book and its recommendations to the readers, are the result of the training and the author's experiences in this kind of projects, and due to have had the opportunity to be several times on "both sides of the playing field", as project manager of the implementer, and as project manager of the client.
In order not to do so "extensive" the content, or too "heavy" the reading of this book, the author only deepens the minimum required in each subject. Just enough, so that the reader will keep in mind, all the aspects to be considered, and the most important recommendations on each aspect.
This book does not follow the letter of any project management methodology in particular, and its fundamental purpose is to serve as a practical guide to help ensure that an ERP project be successful, so undoubtedly will be very useful for corporate officers, professionals in project management, information technology executives and other persons interested in this topic, but mainly for those people who are responsible for leading an ERP project.
On one side are customers demanding better products, better prices and better services, and on the other side are the companies that need to provide better service to their customers, be more efficient, optimize their costs, have more flexible processes and improve their timely response to the market.
The alignment of information technology with improvements in business processes have generated software packages to facilitate enterprise resource management, which are more commonly known as "ERP", English acronyms that mean "Enterprise Resource Planning ".
More and more companies need to implement an ERP system to grow and achieve a competitive advantage. Statistics from the business world, indicate that 85% of the most successful companies are using an ERP, and the fact that the 500 largest companies in the world use it, confirm this. However, only few business leaders have knowledge about everything that involves implementing an ERP and what is required to achieve it. They do not have a clear idea of how to structure, measure, justify, select, hire and manage its implementation.
What ERP should be implemented?
With whom should be implemented?
What should you ask?
What should you get?
How should you manage its implementation?
These are just some of the questions that surely will come to mind when thinking about implementing an ERP. The answers to these questions, will be found in so far as the reader progresses in the reading this book.
The author, thanks to his training and experience in projects like this, gives in this book his recommendations about the most important aspects to consider in order to assure a good selection and implementation. And he guides the reader through the entire project life cycle. This is, from 0 to 100.
The content of this book and its recommendations to the readers, are the result of the training and the author's experiences in this kind of projects, and due to have had the opportunity to be several times on "both sides of the playing field", as project manager of the implementer, and as project manager of the client.
In order not to do so "extensive" the content, or too "heavy" the reading of this book, the author only deepens the minimum required in each subject. Just enough, so that the reader will keep in mind, all the aspects to be considered, and the most important recommendations on each aspect.
This book does not follow the letter of any project management methodology in particular, and its fundamental purpose is to serve as a practical guide to help ensure that an ERP project be successful, so undoubtedly will be very useful for corporate officers, professionals in project management, information technology executives and other persons interested in this topic, but mainly for those people who are responsible for leading an ERP project.
