When planning for Global deployment of an ERP, organizations may be wonder about the right implementation approach. They may have questions like whether to deploy on the all the geographical sites and companies at the same point of time or to go with a phased manner of rollout approach or may choose the 'out-of-the-box' vanilla features in the first phase or to go with the detailed comprehensive business process mapping?
Generally, smaller organizations having operations within smaller, defined geographic regions will be fine with a full-fledged big bang approach of implementation. However, larger corporations with multiple geographic reach will find Rollout Implementation as a better option.
The key areas this paper will focus on are:-
- What is the “Rollout” approach?
- What kind of Program Management is required?
- Benefits and challenges