ERP Cost Control

The typical purchase arrangement for enterprise software licenses has the following attributes:

  • Initial costs high: Cost for the ERP program licenses or ERP Cloud subscriptions are often about double from what can be achieved.
  • Cash flow poor: Cash is released too early, long before actual value can be received from the ERP licenses.
  • Ongoing costs high: These costs are immediately too high based on excessive initial costs paid. Further, ERP software vendor seek to have no constraints to unilaterally raise these costs over time.
  • ERP software contract one-sided: Commercial terms initially offered by ERP software vendors do very little to protect buyer’s interests.

Controlling the ERP purchase

We offer a white paper about how to significantly reduce costs to access ERP software through a subscription or perpetual licenses. Further this paper presents reasons why ERP software vendors should significantly accommodate such an arrangement.

The experience of hundreds of enterprise software selection projects and comprehensive interaction with the enterprise software vendor community is the basis for this white paper. This is one of many enterprise resource planning articles from EAI.

Download the FREE ERP Cost Control White Paper

Learn details on how to effectively purchase access to ERP software—and in turn save money and improve commercial control. This is one of many enterprise resource planning articles from EAI.

ERP Selection – Cornell Pump

Negotiating ERP costs is complicated and the ERP software vendors take advantage of the buyer’s lack of experience. EAI-SoftSelect’s experience and influence helped us level the playing field. We clearly saved money and lowered our long term risk.

Cornell Pump
Jeff Markham

ERP Selection – Provo Craft

EAI-SoftSelect was a great partner throughout the process of choosing an ERP solution. They helped us control the terms throughout the ERP buying process, and we achieved impressive results in reduced ERP license fees.
Having an experienced partner like EAI-SoftSelect, helped us negotiate for the products we need and set our expectations for the process of implementing these solutions.

Provo Craft
Nate White
Nate White, COO, Provocraft

ERP Selection – Leupold & Stevens

Long term ERP license costs were initially very difficult to calculate. Working with EAI-SoftSelect we were able to insist on a predicable ERP license fee approach and achieve much lower initial and ongoing license fee costs.

Leupold
Paul Castle