Estimating ERP Benefits/ Value for Business Case. We are building a business case to replace a 10+ year old ERP that provides order to invoice functionality. There is no workflow, exception management, or modern features we have seen in new solutions. Similar to others I've talked with, our ERP was heavily customized to meet our need when we were 20MM and now we are 160MM. I know that we need the business functions to define what they can do better with a new ERP to build a unique business case, but they need some help with templates or examples of what others have seen to see what "good" looks like. I looked within GG for some standard benchmarks, but not exist. Anyone seen some good examples we could share with our financial, production/operations and sales teams for ideation?
SVP - Software Engineering in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago
If you’re looking for one ERP that has all the back end capabilities and a customizable front end experience to meet the needs of all your users, then you won’t find one SaaS / off the shelf tool that can do it all that will likely meet all your needs.
If you want to just use one tool then you’ll likely need to compromise on some functionality, user experience, and/or flexibility which means you’ll likely need to compromise on one or more of the things above, cobble together multiple tools and see how to integrate them all together, or go with a more robust scalable architecture.
In the past, I lead my old firms Leaf2Cash technical architecture effort and we went with the modular approach that tied multiple SaaS systems together through an common custom UX that retrieved data via APIs instead of relying on point to point integrations between systems. This went really well but it required deep team integration (via scaled Agile) and having a common vision and communication across our teams so the left hand always k ones what the right hand is doing.
We’re evaluating a new ERP. Our company, PROENERGY is a vertically integrated power partner (gas plant design/build, O&M, manufacturing including our PE6000 turbine, and 2.6 GW ERCOT operations).
Considering: SAP Public Cloud, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics, IFS, and Infor Construction Cloud.
Key needs: manufacturing, complex structure with built-in consolidation/reporting, long-range planning, procurement/inventory, and core accounting.
We use Microsoft Dynamics today for CRM/Field Service. Biggest concerns: implementation partners and support resources.
If you’re looking for one ERP that has all the back end capabilities and a customizable front end experience to meet the needs of all your users, then you won’t find one SaaS / off the shelf tool that can do it all that will likely meet all your needs.
If you want to just use one tool then you’ll likely need to compromise on some functionality, user experience, and/or flexibility which means you’ll likely need to compromise on one or more of the things above, cobble together multiple tools and see how to integrate them all together, or go with a more robust scalable architecture.
In the past, I lead my old firms Leaf2Cash technical architecture effort and we went with the modular approach that tied multiple SaaS systems together through an common custom UX that retrieved data via APIs instead of relying on point to point integrations between systems. This went really well but it required deep team integration (via scaled Agile) and having a common vision and communication across our teams so the left hand always k ones what the right hand is doing.