{"id":35558,"date":"2003-03-15T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2003\/03\/erp-systems-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-others\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:59:35","slug":"erp-systems-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/erp-systems-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"ERP systems: learning from the mistakes of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Common weaknesses in selection and implementation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t want to make any mistakes when selecting and implementing an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, you can check your decision using the negative hit list from management consultants Abels &amp; Kemmner.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Herzogenrath-based company evaluated 102 ERP consulting projects and quantified the most common sources of error. For example, 90% of the companies surveyed did not compare the ERP systems in question in terms of their cost\/benefit ratio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/03\/1076076162703.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14528 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/03\/1076076162703-300x133.gif\" alt=\"Features ERP system selection\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why in 80% of cases inefficient order handling processes were &#8220;cemented&#8221; and systems with too much complexity were installed. Experience shows that only 15% of the available and paid-for functionality in ERP systems is actually used. A review of this decision by external specialists is therefore highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>However, the reality is that over 2\/3 of users either do not consult a neutral consultant at all when selecting an ERP system, or they consult the system house itself or management consultancies with system specialization. However, no entrepreneur can arrive at a truly objective cost-benefit analysis with such decision-making processes &#8211; but this should be a matter of course for an investment that often runs into six figures, even in SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>Abels &amp; Kemmner recommends that the first thing to do is to design future rational organizational processes. Based on this, a company should select suitable ERP systems in an initial selection stage. In a second selection stage, these were to be examined more closely on the basis of our own data. The functionalities must also be evaluated from a cost-benefit perspective before a decision can be made that also makes economic sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Info<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. G\u00f6tz-Andreas Kemmner, Abels &amp; Kemmner Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Unternehmensberatung mbH, Kaiserstr. 100, 52134 Herzogenrath, Tel. 02407\/9565-0, Fax -40, E-Mail:  <\/em><a href=\"mailto:AKemmner@ak-online.de\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n    <em>AKemmner@ak-online.de<\/em><br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><em>, Internet: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n    <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n      <em>ak-online.de<\/em><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common weaknesses in selection and implementation If you don&#8217;t want to make any mistakes when selecting and implementing an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, you can check your decision using the negative hit list from management consultants Abels &amp; Kemmner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730,1767],"tags":[1860,1724,1739,2012,1442],"class_list":["post-35558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-transformation","category-supply-chain-strategy","tag-avoid-mistakes","tag-consulting-en","tag-erp-system-en","tag-software-selection-en","tag-unternehmensberatung-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}