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SVA Course Curriculum - Systems to Support Operations in the 21st Century
Best in class businesses maintain their leadership position by making decisions that provide for the most effective way to manage information. This course will assist operations people in becoming competent to lead a systems effort. There is a need to maintain a level of simplicity while focusing on the true systems needs of the business.
Participants will learn how to diagnose current system(s), to determine strengths and deficiencies leading to a full understanding of all Business Requirements.
This course is designed to focus on users of a system, it does not intend to address the more technical (IS) issues associated with systems.
What You Will Achieve:
- An understanding of why it is important to be knowledgeable of the current and future business strategies.
- Knowledge of how Enterprise Resource Planning systems integrate most business systems.
- The ability to analyze current business functions and upgrade them to be compatible with more formal, integrated systems.
- An appreciation of the value of live, interactive information availability throughout the organization, including multiple sites and facilities.
- The realization that true systems requirements should not automatically translate to the purchase of a totally integrated ERP System and that there are multiple options when addressing real business needs.
What You Will Learn:
- Business Process Requirements - How to determine the true systems needs while avoiding excessive complexity.
- Optional Business Systems Solutions - Why it is important to identify multiple optional solutions to the business needs to prevent superfluous applications.
- Request for proposal - The ability to determine what major functionality your business requires to assure that the software of choice will fulfill critical business needs.
- Return on Investment - Implementing a system has such a high impact on an organization that it must include how to develop a calculation of the predicted return on investment.
- Overview of the Major Segments of Business Systems - How to segment your current systems needs and compare them with available software and determine how to address only identified requirements
- Best of Breed - When to make a decision to select Major Modules of a system from different software suppliers and how to integrate them
- Avoiding Systems Overkill - When to resist the temptation to leave the integration to the software firm and end up purchasing a complex system that will be costly to implement.
- Training Internal People to select and implement - Why it is important to demand that all business process decisions are made by knowledgeable, internal people. Who are trained in developing and selecting systems solutions.
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