Our systems assessment process will involve conducting structured fact-finding meetings with each of the functional business areas, understanding the existing business processes and identifying the strengths of the existing solution as well as those areas that might benefit by change.  During the course of our assessment of the current environment we will also document future business requirements which will support the development of a Request for Proposal document for the evaluation of alternative ERP solutions. 

Based upon our experience and research, our project will also provide a realistic budget should the company choose to proceed down the path of selecting a new ERP solution.

RJMC has been performing System Assessments for many years in for a variety of distribution and manufacturing companies and we eagerly look forward to exercising our proven methodology to quickly and efficiently appraise our client as to the status of their existing information technology environment.

Contact RJMC today to find out how we can help your company perform a Systems Assessment!

Call RJMC today to find out how we can help your company select the right system at the right price!

RJMC is proud of our ability to quickly identify, document, and present complex business requirements in a non-technical way.

Call RJMC today to learn how we can assist your company to quickly define your key system requirements and incorporate them into a Request for Proposal document that you can use to solicit proposals from qualified solution providers.

During this intensive four week project RJMC will review the functionality of the current system so that we can assess the extent to which these systems satisfy the company’s current and future transaction processing, third-party interface, BI reporting, and e-commerce needs. Using our proprietory methodology we will also identify alternative ERP solutions and provide a comparative analysis of the existing systems against the cost to acquire and implement an alternative solution

RJMC’s 24 years of experience performing these type of projects allows us to quickly respond to our clients needs for an independent assessment.

Call RJMC today to find out how we can assist your company to assess the status of your enterprise solutions for the purpose of process improvement or to determine whether it might be the right time to evaluate new solutions for your company.

The goal of our client is to “Go Live” with a new system during 2011.

RJMC is proud of its unique market position as a truly independent management consulting firm. Because we do not sell any hardware or software, RJMC’s recommendations are always focused on a single goal – our interests of our Clients always come first!

Call RJMC today to find out how we can help your company select the right system at the right price!

The new ERP software solution will address business needs in the areas of Finance and Accounting, Customer Relationship Management, Sales Order Management, Purchase Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Business Intelligence and several other areas that can benefit by improvements in technology.

The goal of our client is to “Go Live” with a new system during 2011.

RJMC looks forward to adding this Client to our long list of Clients with recent and successful ERP implementations.

RJMC is proud of its unique market position as a truly independent management consulting firm. Because we do not sell any hardware or software, RJMC’s recommendations are always focused on a single goal – our interests of our Clients always come first!

Call RJMC today to find out how we can help your company select the right system at the right price!

The Wall Street Journal on August 23rd published an article and regarding some of the common pitfalls of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations.  The article and report were written by two professors, one a strategy professor and one who focuses on Information Systems.   You can read the article, called “Diets That Don’t Work: Where Enterprise Planning Goes Wrong,” here.

The article agrees significantly with RJMC’s take on ERP – that the software can provide tremendous value as long as the buyer exercises a proper degree of care in the selection and implementation of the system.  RJMC has preached consistently that change management and management of expectations are critical keys to success and the authors of this study concur, writing:

Some companies stumble with ERP at this [process change] stage because they are afraid to abandon old ways of working that have served them in the past. Others stumble later on by embracing technology that simply mirrors older systems already in use. Still others are reluctant to let go of either their old software or old ways of working.

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RJMC agrees that identifying and addressing the processes that are critical to a company’s success and protecting only these processes from significant change is a good prescription for a successful implementation.  Allowing for change to all non-critical processes in order to take advantage of the efficiencies that a new ERP system offers help our clients stay on time and on budget during their projects.  If you have chosen your ERP software properly, you can trust that the best practices built into the software will work for most of the “everyday” tasks that your team needs to accomplish.

A link to the full “WSJ Executive Advisor Report” is available on the WSJ article page.

Rubenstein / Justman Management Consultants (RJMC) is a management consulting firm that prides it on the strong relationships it has established with its many clients over the past 24 years.  RJMC is vendor and solution independent and does not sell hardware or software or perform system implementations.  Visit www.RJMC.net to better understand the scope of RJMC services.