Steps To Successful ERP Implementation - Cont.

As the global market gets highly decentralized and competitive, the businesses are switching to ERP systems for strengthening their hold on the business processes and optimizing them.

Choosing an ERP Solution is only half the battle won. A mammoth challenge lays in the successful implementation of the ERP. A well designed implementation is the key to success of the ERP system.

4. Data Collection and cleansing : This is one of the mission critical staged of successful ERP implementation. Data is the driving factor and the instrument of growth for any organization. A success of the ERP implementation lies tremendously in the ability to sift the useful data and bring it to the fore-front. The data should follow strong semantics and should be layered on the basis of access priority. The seemingly less used data must not be eliminated. On the contrary it should also be stocked for later use.

This re-organization process requires a patient and ardent efforts from the ERP implementation team. All data chunks must be carefully examined and then organized into spreadsheets. A classification mechanism must be developed and the data must be imported into the ERP system accordingly. The data imports must be followed by thorough verification exercises to make sure that no data is skipped.

5. Testing and trainingThe ERP implementation team must test all the functions to check that all information is accurate and working correctly. End-to-end as well as function specific testing must be carried out with real data to ensure that the systems are working correctly. The test data must be flushed out of systems to ready them for go-live. The employees must be trained for using the enhanced functions and hands-on transactions must be performed. Additional tools such as online and paper documentation must be provided for easy learning experiences4. Training and Testing

6. Deployment and Evaluation
The implementation team will develop an exhaustive checklist of all the deliverables at the go-live stage. They will methodically check that all the goals outlined in the document scope are accomplished. Details interviews with users will help them evaluate the implementation success.

The evaluation process continues over a few months and high level meetings are convened with the executives to study the ROI and resource efficiency trends.

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Further Reading

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