ERP market screening

Objective

Evaluation of the extent to which other vendors' solutions meet the requirements regarding the process dimensions of a manufacturing company in the food industry, considering company-specific requirements, technical reliability, flexibility, security, future-proofing and economic efficiency.

Approach

• Analysis of the existing process and requirements documentation, plus a workshop to identify company specifics
• Market research for industry solutions and suitable implementation partners
• Creation of documents for a request for information (RFI) to be sent to a pre-selected circle of possible implementation partners
• Objective evaluation of the returned RFI documents

Result

• Longlist of pre-selected ERP systems and implementation partners
• Anonymized RFI documents incl. vendor profile
• Evaluation matrix with objectively assessed evaluation criteria
• Management presentation of the analysis results
• Recommendation for a shortlist and next steps in the project