Selecting the Right Supply Chain Software
Having accompanied hundreds of tendering processes, we know what it takes to select a supply chain software that suits your needs and truly improves the digital capabilities of your supply chain.
Defining
Your Needs
Many companies either buy a software that best replicates their status quo, or best fits pre-determined to-be processes.
We help you to start by defining the business problem to be solved and by avoiding a search guided by a corset of prematurely defined, detailed processes.
Setting the Selection Criteria
Once the business problem and desired resolution of it are defined, we accompany you in drafting requirements that are specific enough for a targeted selection process, but allow for learning and adaptation of the to-be processes while skimming the market for a suitable solution provider.
Finding
the Best Fit
Selection processes are often driven by IT, ensuring that the selected vendor fulfills, certainly important, but non-value adding, criteria for data security, integration and system performance.
We help you to ask the right business questions, see the right demos and select the wheat from the chaff during your tendering process.
Tendering Professionally
Coordinating and consolidating all inputs between your supply chain, IT, finance and legal departments is not easy.
With our help, your tendering process is efficient, fast and ensures the selection of the best solution for your needs.
Last but not least, knowing the current price levels in supply chain software market, we ensure that you buy at a competitive price.
Organizational Aspects
Sometimes supply chain software projects fail because organizational aspects are disregarded.
While supporting you with the selection of the right software, we also help you detect required changes in your organizational structure and request the supporting services required from the software vendor, so that these are planned and resourced in time, ensuring the introduction of the new software into your business is a success.