Recommendation: Selecting an ERP Product • Cisco’s realized that implementing ERP would require heavy involvement This could not be an IT-only IT- initiative. • Consistent with the need for a strong Cisco team, the company would also need strong partners KPMG • With KPMG on board, the team turned to the software market with a multi-pronged approach for identifying multi- the best software packages. • The team spent 10 days writing a request for proposals (RFPs) to send to the vendors Oracle win. • Selection of Oracle was based on three of the major decision points: – First, this project was being driven pretty strongly by manufacturing and Oracle had a better manufacturing capability than the other vendor. – Second, they made a number of promises regarding the long-term development of functionality in the long- package. – The other part of it was the flexibility offered by Oracle’s being close by. 7/20/2009 DASMR-Biztel: Cisco-ERP 7
8. Strategic Questions: • How much would it cost? • How long would it take? • How long should it take to do a project to replace all of our core systems? • As requested by systems production, can do it in five months? 7/20/2009 DASMR-Biztel: Cisco-ERP 8