IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP – APPROACH
1) Selection of an ERP Product
Major decision which they took and reason behind that:
a) Whom to give responsibility from company
i. It was critically important project
ii. Requires heavy involvement from business community to make project successful
iii. DECISION CISCO management pulled out very vest people from their team to do the work
b) How and how many partner to select from Industry
i. There help was needed for the decision of selection and implementation of software
ii. Great technical skills and industry knowledge was must
iii. DECISION Chose KPMG as integration partner. KPMG gave their best people for this project. i.e. Program manager for this project was their director of IT.
c) Which software to select
i. One of the most important decision
ii. Approach
i. Took help from large corporates
ii. Guidance of research sources like Gartner group
iii. By tapping existing user of package
iii. Vendor selection process
i. Systematic and standard procedure
ii. RFP
iv. DECISION Oracle was selected as vendor
i. Strong and better manufacturing capability
ii. Promise Long term sustainable relationship
iii. Flexibility as office was very near by