Aligning ERP with the Overall Business Strategy
Aligning an ERP implementation with a company’s overall business strategy is a difficult and often overlooked component of a successful project. The main thing needed is to take a top-down approach to defining business processes and then ultimately arriving at an ERP solution that fits the overall business. In other words, before configuring a system to enable the desired to-be processes, one needs to define what these to-be processes look like. In order to understand the to-be processes, one needs to know their operational strategy. And before defining the operational strategy, the need to define the overall corporate strategy and objectives. Steps to Ensure a Successful ERP Project is aligned with the Overall Corporate and Operational Strategy Define the corporate strategy and objectives. Typically look at a 3-5 year horizon when helping clients through the process. Challenge them to answer the question: “where do you want the company to be in 5 years?” Also, “what ...