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Unit 8: ERP Implementation Lifecycle

industry specific best practices for their future benefit. Some of the best practices are: notes
preventive maintenance, activity based costing, kanban etc.
2. Need to adopt global best processes: As is best processes address or include the
following:
(a) Design of products and services

(b) Marketing and selling
(c) Production and delivery of products
(d) Conversion of resources or inputs into products
(e) Warehousing

(f) Managing inventory
(g) Product quality assurance
(h) Maintenance process
(i) Servicing of customers
(j) After sales service

(k) Customer relationship management
(l) Managing human resources
To be Best Processes
Companies need to be define their own employees in order to improve their way of operation
and efficiency by adopting these methods the company will be able to save a lot of operating
costs and expenditures and also eliminate unnecessary bottlenecks in the processes.
3. Need to adopt global IT infrastructure: As is IT infrastructure study is done in order to
know the following points:
(a) What is the application that is running in that company-in –house or customized/
standardize one
(b) Are all modules integrated or run on different packages and platforms?
(c) What is the connectivity scenario-whether using web based interface or stand alone
ones?

(d) Is a centralised database or a different one being used?
(e) What is the present platform in terms of front end and backend?
(f) To what extend does it serve the purpose?
(g) Is there any duplication of effort in order to capture vital data that impacts employee
efficiency?
To be best practices include some of the practices which are already adopted globally and
are taken as industry standards for swiftly operating businesses in a competitive global
scenario.
Some of the best practices that can be adopted are as follows:
(a) Information liquidity: Much like cash liquidity, the liquidity of information is a measure
of business success. In a successful company, data flows smoothly and information is
transformed into economic value.

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