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ERP implementations promise much, but “only 10% - 15% deliver anticipated benefits” (Rutherford, ‘ERP’s Ends Justify Its Means’, CIO Online Report). The biggest shortfalls are reported in personnel reductions, improvements to on-time delivery, productivity gains, revenue growth and inventory reduction. Worse, a 2008 survey by Unipart Expert Practices found that 84% of companies didn’t track benefits realisation to the end of their ERP implementation project.
Course content:
This practical one-day workshop is for senior managers who have implemented an ERP, or are considering implementation, and are looking for practical insight in to how to deliver promised benefits. This event will look at the key considerations in realising benefits by establishing the context:
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Ensuring alignment with strategy;
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Ensuring flawless design through the integration of people, roles, organisation, processes, systems and data to improve value creation; and
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Excellent execution, delivering the business case through better project governance and management.
The day’s activities will enable participants to explore these areas, sharing experiences and thinking through the application in their own organisations, as well as providing rare access to a business, and its people, that has used ERP to underpin process centred working.
Learning outcomes:
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Gain an appreciation of how to realise benefits from an ERP implementation
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Get guidance on how to de-risk an ERP implementation
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Learn how an ERP system can operate in a more mature lean operation
Benefits:
The fundamental advantage of ERP is that integrating the myriad processes by which businesses operate saves time and expense. Decisions can be made more quickly and with fewer errors. Data becomes visible across the organisation. Tasks that benefit from this integration include: Sales forecasting, which allows inventory optimisation; Order tracking, from acceptance through fulfilment; Revenue tracking, from invoice through cash receipt; Matching purchase orders (what was ordered), inventory receipts (what arrived), and costing (what the vendor invoiced).
ERP systems centralise business data, bringing the following benefits:
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They eliminate the need to synchronise changes between multiple systems – consolidation of finance, marketing and sales, human resource, and manufacturing applications
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They enable standard product naming/coding
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They provide a comprehensive enterprise view
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They make real–time information available to management anywhere, any time to make proper decisions
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They protect sensitive data by consolidating multiple security systems into a single structure
who is this course for?
This workshop is for supply chain directors; CIOs; senior operations and supply chain professionals.
Fees: Members - £75; Non-members - £150
(Non-member rate includes one year's Associate Membership of IOM)
To book, please complete the booking form here or contact Membership Services 01536 740104 quoting event code: IOM102.
Workshop in partnership with Unipart Expert Practices
Due to the nature of this workshop, organisations that Unipart deem to be of a competitive nature will be unable to attend.
