Because the ERP market has matured greatly over the last two decades, there are multiple solutions that will meet a majority of most business’ needs. The question becomes not if, but how the application will serve the business. While software integration continues to be a major component of ERP implementations, even with the increasing presence of cloud based ERP solutions, business success goes far beyond the software integration efforts, requiring effective business process improvement and change enablement.
Statera brings business consultants to the table for ERP implementations. These are professionals that have the strong accounting, finance, marketing, sales, human resources, and supply chain backgrounds necessary to make your business truly improve performance with your ERP solution.
Statera works with our clients in a multitude of ways when it comes to ERP. We assist clients in optimizing their existing ERP investment by reengineering processes and reconfiguring existing applications to match processes. We lead clients through the myriad ERP vendors pool to select the right solution for their business. We help clients through ERP implementations, assisting in everything from business requirements gathering and process improvement to application configuration, change enablement to ensure effective user adoption, and program management to keep these often large and complex projects under control across time, budget and quality constraints.
Over time, ERP configuration has become a commodity, with much of the work now being done offshore. While we partner with both onshore and offshore configuration firms, Statera has built our ERP practice with a focus on the value-adding aspects of implementing an ERP. Such as the strategic decision making regarding selections, the business process improvement that squeezes real value out of the technology, the change enablement required to make sure the new system is adopted and used correctly, the use of business intelligence to drive performance management, quality assurance to make sure the business requirements are consistent, testable and thoroughly tested, and project management to protect valuable capital investment dollars and ensure the business case is not blown by project overruns. Statera also specializes in custom integration work, surfacing ERP through portal applications like SharePoint and integrating the ERP with legacy applications. With Statera’s ERP consulting services, the promise of packaged software is realized across your enterprise, leading to the value captured at the top of the Packaged Software Value Pyramid.