ERP Software Selection Service
Selection Process Methods and Tools
The SoftSelect ERP selection process has been built and tuned from experiences gained in more than 1000 ERP projects since 1996. The resultant formalized methods and tools enable our team to deliver effective services with about half the typical consulting hours required to reach similar results. The SoftSelect methods and tools are not a cookie cutter approach, but are adapted to each client’s unique project. The ERP Selection Details page expands upon the steps listed in the chart below.
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SoftSelect Project Team
For ERP selection projects, our consultant's key skill is experience in the business processes that ERP should support for a client project. Other important attributes or our ERP consultant team are: (1) ERP project experience, (2) knowledge of modern ERP tools and purpose, (3) complex project management skill, and (4) credibility and adaptability. With these skills, our ERP consultants can purposefully engage participants from shop floor employees to executives. Since 1996 to today, Engleman Associates, Inc.'s business model has been to collaborate with independent consultants. The current core team has on the average about ten years of working together. Our ERP selection consulting firm offers a highly coordinated team, based on experience, trust, and common methods.
ERP Software Research and Insight
Our company maintains formal and qualitative information on ERP programs and other business software types such as CRM, MES, WMS, and PLM. Our ERP consultant team interacts with the ERP sellers and other business software professionals in day-to-day project work. This has been the primary method by which we stay current with the relative strengths and weaknesses of these business software products. This ERP information, plus client-specific screening factors, is what influences the ERP software long-list we recommend to a client. Our company has no formal relationship with any software vendor—for any financial or other purpose. The sole focus of our enterprise resource planning consultant team is the ERP buyer’s interests. Review our ERP Comparison Database.
Results
The key results of SoftSelect ERP selection consulting assistance are:
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Lowered risks and barriers to top-level ERP project success
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Effective use of your team's valuable capacity
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Deep price discounts for ERP—often over 50% from list
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Project momentum is more easily maintained
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High ERP selection confidence
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Implementation readiness improved
ERP Selection – Provo Craft
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 SoftSelect, helped us negotiate for the products we need and set our expectations for the process of implementing these solutions.
ERP Selection – Cornell Pump
Negotiating ERP costs is complicated and the ERP software vendors take advantage of the buyer’s lack of experience. SoftSelect’s experience and influence helped us level the playing field. We clearly saved money and lowered our long term risk.
ERP Selection – Leupold & Stevens
Long term ERP license costs were initially very difficult to calculate. Working with SoftSelect we were able to insist on a predicable ERP license fee approach and achieve much lower initial and ongoing license fee costs.
