Publication date : 08/07/2024

Course : Choosing and deploying an IS/ERP adapted to your Supply Chain

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. SUI
Price : 1360 € E.T.

Choosing and deploying an IS/ERP adapted to your Supply Chain




How do you select the ERP best suited to the type and characteristics of your main supply chain flows? What best practices should you adopt? This training course will help you focus on the functionalities that are relevant to your organization, particularly operations and planning.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. SUI
  2d - 14h00
1360 € E.T.




How do you select the ERP best suited to the type and characteristics of your main supply chain flows? What best practices should you adopt? This training course will help you focus on the functionalities that are relevant to your organization, particularly operations and planning.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify the project's technical and functional constraints
Identify the main types of activities and flows to be transposed into specifications
Focus on critical ERP features
Managing critical project milestones
Ensuring long-term deployment

Intended audience
Supply Chain operations management, IT departments, IS project managers.

Prerequisites
No special knowledge required.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Collective reflection and sharing of practices. Role-playing exercises to help you go through the key stages of your project and build up your toolbox.
Teaching methods
Active, participative teaching methods. Alternating theory/practice with application to the context and experience of participants.

Course schedule

1
ERP implementation

  • Identify the expectations of project stakeholders.
  • Identify the key stages of an ERP project.
  • A critical look at some key phases: selection, deployment, ramp-up.
Group discussion
Feedback on current practices.

2
Evaluate the suitability of an ERP solution for supply chain requirements

  • Reminder of some Supply Chain and planning fundamentals.
  • Understand the characteristics and requirements of different types of supply chain.
  • Identify suitable market products: standard and advanced features, strengths and weaknesses.
Exercise
The main requirement headings in a specification.

3
Integrate Supply Chain best practices into your ERP project

  • Responding to current business constraints.
  • Rely on "best practices" Supply Chain: customer-supplier collaboration, just-in-time, Lean...
  • Include different flow management methods: MRP, PIC/PDP, CBN, MES, Kanban, etc.
  • Understand the importance of technical data in controlling cycles and work-in-progress, costs and margins (quotations)...
  • Summary: essential principles of flow management.
Hands-on work
IS-oriented beer game. Impact of technical data on physical flows and operational performance.

4
Select an ERP

  • Draw up really useful specifications.
  • How to simplify and reduce the selection process.
  • Why set up test cases right from the selection phase?
  • Choose from the types of contracts offered by publishers.
Hands-on work
Build a realistic budget. Draw up an IS selection/quotation grid. Draw up summary specifications.

5
Deploying your ERP: reducing risks and ensuring long-term success

  • Define a project that limits risks.
  • Identify critical tasks and milestones.
  • Leading change and organizing training.
  • Take advantage of different parameterization methodologies.
  • Sustain gains and encourage continuous improvement.
Hands-on work
Budget type. GANTT, projet type et étapes critiques. Roue de Deming-PDCA et amélioration continue.


Dates and locations
Select your location or opt for the remote class then choose your date.
Remote class

Dernières places
Date garantie en présentiel ou à distance
Session garantie

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 9 Mar., 28 May, 22 Oct.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 9 Mar., 11 June, 22 Oct.