How can ERP consultants help overworked teams?
One of the situations that we face with most of our clients is overworked teams. Teams in all functional areas are swamped with regular work and they have no time to take on the additional burden of working with ERP implementation partners or ERP business consultants...
7 useful tips to avoid ERP implementation failure
ERP is a massive Change-Management exercise. It can catapult the organization to a higher level of performance with increased process effectiveness, considerable cost savings, customer satisfaction and consistent order fulfilment. However, just like any other project...
10 Key Points to consider before finalizing your ERP Implementation Partner
As has been mentioned in our previous blogs, implementation of ERP is a major change in the way business is done. There are more failures than success stories of ERP implementation especially for first time implementers and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). We have...
MU Primer Series 1 – Basics of Production module in ERP
In our previous blogs (https://mentorsunlocked.com/mu-primer-series-1-basics-of-inventory-module-in-erp/ ; https://mentorsunlocked.com/mu-primer-series-1-basics-of-finance-and-accounts-module-in-erp/ ),...
ERP Focus – Open Source ERPs
Most Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially companies with turnover less than Rs. 50 crores (Rs. Fifty Million) want to adopt ERPs but are deterred due to high cost of branded ERPs such as SAP B1 or Microsoft Business Central. This week, we will discuss Open...
Change Management – Integral part of ERP Implementation
In late 2000s, I visited office a bureaucrat. Before we could start our conversation, he called his secretary and gave her a set of papers with his responses. He explained that they were emails that he had to response to. That’s how a complete generation of senior...
Migrations from legacy system to ERP – Some Do’s and Don’ts
The inspiration for this blog comes from a friend who implemented an ERP. He owns and manages an Engineering goods company and like most them his company struggles with large inventory of raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods. The routing of material...
ERP Focus – ebizframe from Eastern Software Systems
This week we will like to share information on ebizframe, an ERP from Eastern Software Systems. This is in continuation of our series ERP Focus started with our blog https://mentorsunlocked.com/erps-in-indian-market/ . Last time we had discussed SAGE ERP (...
Fraud : Anecdotes or Systems weaknesses ?
At one of my work places, we discovered two incidents of fraud. First was an employee was inflating his travel bills. Our accountant, who reviewed travel statements, grew suspicious when he felt that the room rates were not comparable with room rates charged by other...
ERP Focus Series – SAGE ERP
Mentors Unlocked is starting a series on different ERPs. The objective of this series is to provide information on different ERPs. We had talked about different ERPs available in Indian market in our blog ( https://mentorsunlocked.com/erps-in-indian-market/ ) In this...