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The Software Selection Workshop and Process
for Manufacturing
& Distribution Companies
FastTrack! Two and a Half Day Interactive Training
WHAT IS
 ......A Two and a Half Day interactive educational
workshop, facilitated by a Buker Industry Expert, will assist your Selection
Team and key functional Users in developing your detailed system requirements.
By utilizing this structured approach, the user- created functional
requirements list will be used by Buker, Inc., to quickly develop a shortlist
of software vendors to best fit your system needs.
The interactive educational workshop structure and
research will:
- Require work to be completed prior to the workshop to complete
a company data form that requires your team to look at specific business
information and processes. This exercise makes people more aware of some of the
elements within the business enterprise.
- Utilize a PC software tool with a database of over 2,000
functional questions that will be the basis for your software requirements.
- Utilize a recommended list of functional attendees to develop a
group of cross-functional users that will be involved with the definition
process. Prior to the workshop, the recommended list will be provided and
mutually tailored.
- Provide an overview of the ERP business model and concepts.
- Review and clearly define: your company's critical success
factors and your new business system strategy including: identifying your
current systems and the business gaps and goals in the current systems
infrastructure. A "Why change?" discussion.
- Develop a business model that identifies what overall
functional areas are required in your new business system for the future. This
establishes or validates your project scope.
- Allow the functional users to weight each system functional
requirement based on its order of importance within your business model and new
system functionality.
- Identify the "Key" requirements that become the reasons not to
select a software vendor.
- Cover the following Enterprise functional areas: forecasting,
operations planning, finance, costing, customer order processing,
engineering/BOM/formula, quality, scheduling, Payroll, HR, maintenance
management, DRP, shop floor control, purchasing, and materials. Functional
areas to be covered are tailored to your business needs prior and during the
workshop.
- Allow the Facilitator to record any additional unique
requirements not covered by the standard requirements list to customize the
software requirements to your specific situation.
WHY ?......The process will assist your Project Team to translate the
system's users and company's business requirements into a system functional
specification and will provide a vendor shortlist. This structured approach
will allow the team and users to become more knowledgeable about the current
and future business processes, provide the ability to select a new business
system based on user input in a more compressed time frame, and gets the
project focused and going.
BENEFITS OF
- Identifies areas within the business process that may need to
be improved or changed before the new system is implemented. This provides for
an immediate identification of business process improvements.
- Reduces the amount of time it takes to create a system
functional requirements document. Focuses the resources to develop the system
requirements in a short time period of 2 ½ days vs. weeks or months.
Time and resources equate to money.
- Provides a vendor shortlist with an unbiased approach in weeks
vs. months.
- Reduces the amount of time spent to develop an RFP/RFQ.
- Helps identify any selection or implementation issues that can
impact the project.
- Provides the attendees a view and understanding of the total
business functional processes. Educated users become better users within a new
system. You also get user buy-in for the new system.
- The Buker facilitator provides other business experiences,
keeps the group focused, keeps the politics out of the picture, and provides
unbiased answers to questions.
WILL HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THESE:
- What are the functional requirements that the new system will
need to address?
- I didn't know we did this in the company?
- Are we unique regarding our business processes?
- How will or should we conduct our business processes in the
future?
- What are "showstoppers" or "key issues" with regards to the key
requirements that the software must have?
- Not all system requirements are equal, how can we segregate the
"nice-to-have vs. must have?"
- We have been working at this software selection a long time,
how can we get some help?
- Do we understand our business process well enough to define our
future system requirements?
- Why are we doing this?
DELIVERABLES:
- Copy of the system requirements in an Excel format for analyses
and demos
- Workshop report
- List of selection or implementation issues
- A shortlist of the 3-5 "best-fit" software packages
The rest of the selection process can be done by your team
without a Buker Consultant's hands-on assistance, or the Consultant can assist
in the selection process with: Enterprise Resource Planning/Supply Chain
Management education, video-based ERP education for mass education, writing
software demo scripts, the evaluation of the software vendors, assist with the
final software vendor selection, and the creation of key process maps or
process improvements.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE
WORKSHOP?
The system selection team, implementation
team, senior management, and key system users. . An attendee matrix, which
identifies suggested functional attendees, is provided when the workshop is
scheduled.
To help us better understand your software needs
 click here to begin to create your
company's software requirements profile.
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800-654-7990 |
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