{"id":5340,"date":"2019-12-09T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:40:08","slug":"best-practices-implementing-erp-and-aps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyeonplanning.com\/blog\/best-practices-implementing-erp-and-aps\/","title":{"rendered":"Best practices in implementing ERP and APS systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>During the EyeOn International Planning Inspiration Day 2019 we held a session on \u201cBest practices in implementing ERP and APS systems\u201d. In this post, we share some of the insights gathered during the session and provide an overview of some of the topics which the audience found most relevant.<\/p>\r\n<h3>The underestimated complexity of an ERP\/APS implementation process<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As consultants with experience in implementing ERP and APS systems across several industries, we find a common situation across corporations: Companies are attracted to the possibilities of great planning improvements that new tools can deliver. <a href=\"https:\/\/eyeonplanning.com\/expertise\/end-to-end-transformation\/\">E2E connected planning<\/a>, multi echelon inventory optimization, and supply chain automation to name some examples. While the desired benefits are clear, the path to get there is often not as well-defined. This situation generates a source of frustration as companies struggle through the underestimated complexity of an implementation process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>During the session participants shared their perception on system implementations by ranking their experiences on a scale from 0 to 10. The findings helped to quantify the gap between expectations and reality.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Overwhelmingly, it was clear that implementation projects do not live up to the expectations. The great majority of the projects experienced by the audience were not delivered on time, while none of the projects were delivered on budget. The most concerning fact is that in all the implementations the user adoption only met 5.4 points on a 0 \u2013 10 scale, making clear that poor user adoption will lead to unrealized benefits regardless of the time and money spent on the project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Implementing ERP or APS has four major phases: Pre-design, design, implementation and go-live. During the session EyeOn offered the possibility to the audience to choose interactively the topics to be discussed in each of the phases. Below we share an overview of the most common topic choices per phase.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Project_phases.png\" alt=\"Phases of implementing ERP or APS\" width=\"943\" height=\"370\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Pre-design \u2013 Ensuring sufficient planning maturity<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pre-\u2013-Design-\u2013-Ensuring-Sufficient-Planning-Maturity.png\" alt=\"The pre-design phase of implementing ERP\" width=\"943\" height=\"535\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Six areas required for successful implementations<\/h3>\r\n<p>Successful implementations require a certain level of maturity in the organisation to be successful. We identified six areas that are required for successful implementations:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Process<\/li>\r\n<li>Roles and responsibilities<\/li>\r\n<li>Data and data governance<\/li>\r\n<li>Execution<\/li>\r\n<li>Tool skills<\/li>\r\n<li>Supply chain management &#8216;basics&#8217;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Over the years we have developed detail assessments in these areas to identify gaps that need to be addressed prior to moving into design and implementation phases. We highly advise to validate the supply chain maturity of your company so the implementation project can have a solid and common starting point across the organisation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Design \u2013 Getting the right inputs on the design<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Design-\u2013-Getting-the-right-inputs-on-the-design.png\" alt=\"The team required for implementing ERP and APS\" width=\"943\" height=\"458\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Balance between a well-structured, focused, decision-oriented core team and the involvement of extended teams, experts, and business stakeholders is key to gather the right inputs into the design.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>While fast progress can be made by sticking to a core team in charge of the project, it is often common that processes or tool functionality gaps are only discovered at the moment of sharing the outcome of the core team with the extended team. We advocate for using the extended teams to validate proposals made by the core team, so timely progress is made. Involving extended teams in an unstructured requirement gathering phase often proves to be a lengthy and ineffective process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Implementing ERP\/APS \u2013 Dealing with \u201cwe are not ready to move to the next phase\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Implementation-\u2013-Dealing-with-we-are-not-ready-to-move-to-next-phase.png\" alt=\"Implementing ERP and APS: from design to go-live\" width=\"943\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A pragmatic approach to implementations involves acknowledging it is common that not all items are closed before moving into next phase. This generates uncertainty in the organisation about the level of readiness to move ahead. This situation is familiar when making &#8216;go&#8217;, &#8216;no-go&#8217; decisions before going live.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The advice to overcome this situation is establishing clearly at the start of the project the key criteria that needs to be fulfilled before moving between phases. This action has two positive consequences:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>It provides focus across the organisation on the requirements that will be assessed before moving forward.<\/li>\r\n<li>It creates a clear criteria to check against when evaluating complex decisions to move forward or not.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Go-Live \u2013 Leveraging the SME ownership to drive adoption <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Implementation-\u2013-Leveraging-the-SME-ownership-to-drive-adoption-.png\" alt=\"SME ownership in implementing ERP and APS\" width=\"620\" height=\"447\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Based on experience we have identified that trust in a new tool is generated based on experiences over a period of time. As the complexity of planning tools has increased over time, the outcomes generated sometimes resemble a &#8216;black box&#8217; for many users, leading to distrust and poor user adoption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Early involvement in the project of a community of future SMEs (subject matter experts) in the system allows to generate trust in the users that will be required to convince others. Early involvement might be time consuming throughout the implementation phase, but this effort will be rewarded by a higher user adoption of the system at the time of go-live.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><b>Learn more about our approach for <a href=\"https:\/\/eyeonplanning.com\/expertise\/end-to-end-transformation\/advanced-planning-system-implementation\/\">APS implementations!<\/a><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>EyeOn is a niche consultancy firm that works with clients designing, implementing and executing excellent forecasting and planning processes as a discriminating factor for success. In order to achieve this, we develop and share knowledge with demonstrable return on investment for our clients.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the EyeOn International Planning Inspiration Day 2019 we held <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[183,36,89,90],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aps","tag-digital-transformation","tag-e2e","tag-planning-solutions","post_format-post-format-aside"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EyeOn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this post, we share the best practices of implementing an ERP and APS system, as most implementations do not live up to the expectations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eyeonplanning.com\/blog\/best-practices-implementing-erp-and-aps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best practices in implementing ERP and APS systems - 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