E23 The Truth of ERP The ERPodcast

Episode 23 The Truth of ERP – Post Election Edition





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Welcome to the ERPodcast Episode 23 – the Truth of ERP and a Newsbreak – the Post-election Edition – I’m the Director of Profit From ERP Gene Hammons and your host for the ERPodcast.

So – what’s up in the ERP world, well, like so much else, 2020 has changed a lot of things –

• Item – Cloud Software is booming as the pressure cage of the pandemic accelerates change

• Item – Some things never change – listening to customers is key – even if it’s digitally collected data delivered to the managers via iPhone – companies that listen and react are booming

• Item – A lot of the conventional wisdom of ERP has been shown to be a lie – truth is, we’ve always run ProfitFromERP based on proven truth rather than nebulous marketing spin

So we’re going to talk about the Truth of ERP – over the past few months, I kept getting reminded about an old Winston Churchill quote – a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it’s pants on. I thought a lot about that as it relates to the ERP world – and realized half of our ERP Consulting work is swimming upstream with the truth on our backs – truths learned the hard way – truths proven time and time again – but implementing these truths is sometimes the hardest part of a software implementation – all that and more after the break on the ERPodcast…

 

Alliance of Excellence Software Coalition

Today’s ERPodcast is brought to you by ProfitFromERP’s Alliance of Excellence Software Coalition – here’s the thing – you can’t be all things to all people so at ProfitFromERP we’ve put together an alliance of some of everyone.

When it comes to ERP, you may need help going through the selection and evaluation process. Millions of dollars in profit can be on the line – even with ERP platforms costing a fraction of that – the profitability of your business for the next several years can be dramatically affected. And you may say, Gene Hammons, you’re the expert here, we want you to run this project. Great. You also may say, Gene Hammons, we need 7 people to cover 28 national locations and three countries – OK, we can do that too. We have Alliance of Excellence Partners who are some of the best, independent, non-affiliated selection consultants on the planet.

Then you may decide you need NetSuite – which is fine, we have 6 different NetSuite Partner companies who handle implementations – each has a very specialized approach – so one ERP software, 6 different focuses -which if you’re in a very specialized industry can really be critical. But it’s not just NetSuite. There’s three Acumatica partners, 2 Intacct Partners, a Microsoft shop with 14 offices, Infor partners, QAD resources, Zoho, US, Canada, onshore, offshore – teams that do development – and right now, about 20 trusted third party providers when those services are needed. Folks, it all adds up to a small army of highly specialized, extremely experienced teams that we’ve worked with in the past and continue to focus on in the future.

Ahh, but I’m sure you’ve heard the saying ‘one throat to choke’ - meaning one go to source should any issues arise – and issues do tend to arise – just ask the year 2020. ProfitFromERP is the business consulting side of a software project – we manage the teams and bring in the best which keeps the need for throat choking to a minimum – we’ve worked with our Alliance partners before and we know you can trust them to step up when issues arise – that’s our proposition. And it’s why we can say, if you’re looking at ERP, look at ProfitFromERP and the Alliance of Excellence Software Coalition.







Welcome back to Episode 23 of the ERPodcast it’s the Truth of ERP - so forget what you’ve been told and let’s focus on what’s proved true yesterday, today and tomorrow.