The seven important points for the selection of ERP system

The practice of selecting ERP system

工欲善其事, prerequisite. ERP theory must have a good software decency as a carrier to be used in the enterprise. Therefore, the ERP software system selection problem is very important.

1. First-mover education

Before starting to select the commodity software, the enterprise leader and the personnel who participate in the software selection should first take part in the prior education of ERP, understand what is ERP, how the cost, how to implement, how to manage and so on. Through the first education, unified the idea of software selection.

2. Set up the ERP project preparation team to be responsible for software selection

In the software selection phase, the preparatory group to set up the ERP project is responsible for the software selection. The members of the ERP project preparation team should include senior executives with decision-making power and business and financial managers in various departments, and CIO and it technicians in the enterprise should be important members of ERP projects, and they can play a balanced role in selecting software.

3. Do the demand analysis

Demand analysis should consider both the current needs of the enterprise and the future development. Through the demand analysis, the enterprise size, production type, as well as the existing problems, provide the basis for the selection of ERP system.

4. Prepare for funds

The purchase of ERP commodity software system requires a large investment, before the beginning of the selection of software products, should be a good budget and approved, to ensure that the activities of the software to buy goods normally.

5. Review ERP software products

According to the enterprise's demand and ERP standard logic, examines the SOFTWARE PRODUCT function. Different software products often have different functions, performance, optional features, there are different prices, so it must be considered comprehensively.

6. Review ERP software supplier

Implementation of the application of ERP, and the software supplier for a long time to cooperate, so, in the software selection to examine the strength of ERP software vendors, including economic strength, technical support and its users.

7. Contract with software supplier

The following matters must be noted in the signing of the contract:

(1) Contracts for such businesses are often drafted by software vendors, but generally do not sign off-the-shelf contracts from software vendors. In the contract signed, must reflect the company's software products requirements.

(2) to be prepared, business negotiators should read the vendor-drafted contract as early as possible during the software evaluation and selection phase.

(3) must include in the contract to deal with the hidden trouble of the provisions, should be as detailed as possible, clear rules to eliminate the failure of the responsibility, time and punishment methods.

(4) Avoid ambiguous or ambiguous language, regarding supplier's obligation and related date, must express clearly in the contract through the clear language.

(5) Do not believe any verbal commitment, any written form in the contract expressed, is not part of the business.

(6) to have a reasonable payment schedule, do not put the financial control lever easily into the hands of suppliers.

(7) If the contract includes a penalty clause, it must be combined with the payment schedule.

(8) Do not sign long-term software network maintenance contracts. Regarding the maintenance of the software, usually only one-year contract is signed in order to determine the quality of the supplier's service and prepare itself for maintenance.

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