ERP Implementation in 10 Easy Steps

1.Ask the board of directors for an arbitrary but large sum of money. (Suggestion: $300 million.)
   2.Give half the money to consultants. Ask them to select an appropriate ERP package for your company. Consultants will audit your business processes for six months and then select SAP, which they happen to resell.
   3.Form cross-functional implementation teams. Hold meetings.
   4.Re-engineer all your business processes to match the software’s model.
   5.Give the other half of the money to consultants.
   6.Install the software.
   7.Train end users repeatedly.
   8.Cross your fingers.
   9.Turn on the software.
  10.If you’re still in business, immediately return to Step 1 because it’s time for an upgrade.

> Hey, if SAP ran in powerpoint every implementation
> would be perfect.
I think this is a planned feature for Netweaver 8.0
> > Also missing was spending time to make the new ERP
> >  system look like the old legacy system.
Depends on how much money you want to spend.  50 million to make the system look like the old system, 100 million if you want to behave the like the old system, and 200 million if you want the system to actually work.
> What's your definition of early?  This July?
Any project that was done before ASAP methodology was released.  An "early project" would have been any implementation that would have taken less than 2 years to complete.
Take care,
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