ERP Software Doom Prevention: 13 Warning Signs

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A recent article from ZDNet called “13 warning signs to prevent ERP doom” highlighted the problems many companies experience when attempting to integrate large systems over large organizations.

The “ERP Doom” that many customers experience occurs when they ignore the warning signs, much like an ill person ignoring early warning symptoms. First, one should actually understand what “doom” means. Inefficiency, mismanagement of data, and ultimately failed projects are all possible outcomes. When information is disconnected from the people who actually need it, disaster ensues.

Nothing can be worse, for example, than requiring employees to submit and process hundreds of pages of data, only to have that data sit in a cyber-void, unused and never analyzed. Picture yourself trying to find a book in a library where everything is in the wrong place.

Now that you understand the “doom”, you can take a look at the 13 warning signs. Some of them should be obvious, yet many organizations still fall into the same rusty traps. Number 3, for example , says, “There is no training scheduled until less than 90 days before go-live”. I can personally recall being asked to train an entire staff on software, in a 30-minute session, the day before they were required to start using it. Naturally, there was widespread panic and general chaos, as there would be for any organization faced with sudden change.

Finding the best ERP software for your business is only part of the process. Implementing it and creating a steady flow of information throughout the organization requires planning.

By ERP Software Blog Editors, Directory of Microsoft Dynamics ERP Experts