One of the first questions an ERP selection team asks is:

“What ERP vendors should we consider?”

To seek an answer, organizations typically turn to a variety of sources for information. Management often seeks insight from industry analysts, associations and references from friends or colleagues in the industry. Other staff might rely on their past experiences with a particular ERP system, perhaps one that they helped implement at another organization.

In our experience, the data points to the following: an effective ERP selection project is a key component to a successful ERP implementation. Implementation projects that fail to attain expectations can be traced back to poorly executed ERP selection projects.

Given the strategic importance of a company’s selection of an ERP system, our team strongly suggest that companies keep the focus on making a good fit to their business process needs, and to team with a vendor that will be a good partner for the future.