An
independent ERP Consulting is an
individual or a group that kept the client to get ERP implemented. They should
be platform unsure and must not be associated with any ERP tool maker. This
ensures that there is no conflict of interest. The consultant should get paid
by the customer only. It also recommended that the consultant should not demand
that based on the implementation percentage. The idea of a consultant is to offer
right solution at the right price.
Role of an ERP Consultant
An
independent ERP Consultant will analysis business practices and volume and
based on that recommend whether implementing ERP will ensure any business
benefits or not. Business benefits may not always be bottom line or up line but
could be enablers as well.
An
independent consultant is based on the business profits and not more than 3
year payback time, should be mention to the customer budget for ERP
implementation. In some cases, if the business is seeing wonderful growth,
payback time of more than 3 years may be acceptable.
The Outcome:
An
ERP Consultant must help customer to create a clear evaluation conditions to
select the ERP tool as well as application partner. Outcome of ERP implementation methodology will be
recommendation of 1 or 2 tools along with cost and duration of implementation.
In other words.
An
ERP Consultant must create skill medium for the implementation and recommend
skills and capacity needed to implement the tool.
ERP
Consultants provides ERP selection, project management and implementation
services. With production of ERP tools in the market, it has become imperative
to have demanding evaluation and selection process.
The consultants need to ensure that
the ERP system developed on the basis of the ERP assessment meets the customer's business requirements. Training
the employees or in-house staff once the ERP system has been implemented is also
an important part of the consultants. The responsibilities of an ERP consultancy
is also calls for them having sufficient idea and experience.
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