Find the north star
for your ERP project

Tech roadmaps should start with strategy.

All too often, technologists start with a software solution, a new version, or an upgrade - and use that as the basis for transformation.

But the tail shouldn't be wagging the dog - your business should be led by your business strategy and not by the sales quota of a software vendor or Big 4 consulting firm.

A strategic ERP roadmap sets direction based on what really matters to your leadership team.

By interviewing your Execs, unpacking strategic thrusts, and crafting a strategic narrative, your ERP future will be defined in their terms.

 You get independent expertise to help clarify what really matters to your business so that you can shift your ERP business case narrative from technical to meaningful value.

A clear process framework is fundamental to any technology blueprint - especially ERP. 

It underpins a business-aligned narrative and shifts the focus away from technical jargon to real value that business people can understand.

Resulting's Business Process Framework Accelerator is based on APQC best-practice and provides a rock-solid foundation for your ERP roadmap. It can be enhanced with industry specific APQC variants to match your specific needs.

Through a series of short, expert-led workshops, it can be quickly iterated to match your unique business process scope, providing a firm foundation for ERP implementation and business change.

You get a simple to digest, highly visual summary of your business processes, colour-coded to identify competitive advantage, change impact, RPA and Shared Service opportunities.

Understanding the technology that's in place today is a crucial step in ERP transformation. 

The clearer your understanding of today's tech becomes, the more dependable your future ERP plans become.

• Which applications do you use, and which business processes do they enable?
• How do your applications interface and integrate? What about your data model?
• Which functionality in your current ERP packages do you use today?
• And how does this map to your future needs, business strategy, and signature business processes?

You get a structured assessment of your current ERP landscape documented in a way that makes life easier as your journey unfolds.

Your landscape can be modelled in FusionGraph - documenting applications, interfaces, data, interdependencies and pain points.

When an ERP roadmap is strategically-aligned and business-led, your solution options change.

The age of the single monolithic ERP solution is coming to an end - more nimble, modern, cloud based solutions can be assembled to provide a best-of-breed solution landscape.

This is what Gartner dubs Composable ERP.

Analysis of your existing applications landscape, and categorised business process model enables you to consider what is possible and practical beyond your existing ERP solution.

Through a series of exploratory design workshops led by independent experts - who have no agenda to push a single solution - you can craft a conceptual solutions map.

This won't necessarily dictate specific solutions, but it will identify a future composable ERP landscape architecture that will inform your strategic ERP plan and business case narrative.

It will also provide a solid foundation for RFP and tenders, ensuring you provide a clear, open brief.

You get an ERP Solution Map presented as a simple one-page visual that everyone understands, which will enable you to plan migration, future sourcing and decommissioning initiatives.

Without a believable timeline, you're missing two critical pieces of your ERP roadmap.

1. No cost profile to feed into your business case
2. No line-of-sight for the benefits you hope to realise

75% of ERP projects fail to deliver to their original plan - and 70% of ERP projects run over budget.

You need an experience-based, independently authored ERP project Plan on a Page that outlines the timeline and key dependencies to deliver your ERP roadmap.  

It needs to be realistic, not optimistic.

You get a simple but well constructed Level 1 / 2 plan to inform the overall process of selection, implementation and stabilization. 

This will also enable your bean-counters to model commercials for your internal benefits case justification.

Getting buy-in to a significant ERP investment is hard - usually, because you lack a credible strategic narrative.

You need to educate senior business stakeholders with a narrative that's simple, but comprehensive.

It has to be visual and understandable, grounded in business language (referencing your strategy, executive soundbites and business process framework).

It has to link your signature business requirements to specific solutions and functionality that will deliver a demonstrable upside.

Armed with this, you'll be in a strong position to move on to vendor selection and procurement, commercial modelling of costs and benefits, and detailed programme planning.

You get a a high-impact narrative delivered as a concise and eloquent executive document or presentation pack.

Alternatively, it can be produced as high-impact agency standard Playbook delivered digitally or in print form.