Following are some of the benefits of conducting process diagnostic and IT strategy before going for any ERP implementation
Smooth transitioning-
- Conducting the process diagnostics will help organization in identifying the current state maturity and designing the processes as per the future business requirements thereby increasing the process maturity level.
- This helps in easy transition of key processes from the current state to the ERP environment.
Performance monitoring
- Benchmarking of key processes and target setting for performance monitoring helps in measuring the process performance in a better manner and realize the benefit from ERP implementation
- The KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) definition done during process diagnostics helps in measuring the process performance and keeping the track of achievement against the target.
Smooth transitioning-
- Conducting the process diagnostics will help organization in identifying the current state maturity and designing the processes as per the future business requirements thereby increasing the process maturity level.
- This helps in easy transition of key processes from the current state to the ERP environment.
Performance monitoring
- Benchmarking of key processes and target setting for performance monitoring helps in measuring the process performance in a better manner and realize the benefit from ERP implementation
- The KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) definition done during process diagnostics helps in measuring the process performance and keeping the track of achievement against the target.
Separation of duties
- The definition of roles and responsibility of individual/department that brings in process ownership and accountability. The organization may be having the Organization design in place but re-looking will definitely make sense in order to assign the right KRAs to right personnel.
Roadmap for ERP
- An effective IT roadmap definitely helps in prioritizing the IT investment and taking the right implementation decisions at right time. This ensures that "IT" is always in sync with Business needs
Therefore I think if organization rally wants to realize the benefits from ERP implementation in a more effective manner, they should first conduct process diagnostic to understand the maturity level and IT strategy to lay the IT roadmap.
- The definition of roles and responsibility of individual/department that brings in process ownership and accountability. The organization may be having the Organization design in place but re-looking will definitely make sense in order to assign the right KRAs to right personnel.
Roadmap for ERP
- An effective IT roadmap definitely helps in prioritizing the IT investment and taking the right implementation decisions at right time. This ensures that "IT" is always in sync with Business needs
Therefore I think if organization rally wants to realize the benefits from ERP implementation in a more effective manner, they should first conduct process diagnostic to understand the maturity level and IT strategy to lay the IT roadmap.
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