Business Overview
Our client develops, manufactures, and delivers top-quality educational and laboratory products for distributors around the world. Their current ERP system was unable to meet anticipated business growth, and a need to move to a modern ERP system was identified to support the next growth phase.
Katalyst’s Solution
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- Katalyst’s ERP consulting team consisting of business process and ERP subject matter experts, led the evaluation effort along with key client stakeholders. Katalyst leveraged its consulting assets, including package evaluation methodology, ERP scoring matrix, ERP demo systems, etc. to execute this engagement.
- Katalyst followed a two-step discovery process. The goal of the sessions was to understand the future business model and identify critical business capabilities to support that vision.
a) Executive sessions with CXO and senior business leaders on strategic business imperatives, current market, and technology trends
b) Detailed deep-dive sessions with subject matter experts to understand AS-IS & Future requirements - Based on the information gathered during the discovery sessions, Katalyst’s process experts documented and scored the requirements based on criticality. Katalyst created To-Be process maps and conducted detailed walk-through sessions with relevant business stakeholders.
- ‘Information Sharing’ sessions were held covering the features of modern intelligent ERP systems, SaaS, Cloud hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Identification of crucial use-cases for the demos helped the client understand the power of the modern intelligent ERP.
Business Challenges
- Current ERP system is not keeping pace with anticipated business growth
- Lack of inventory visibility across the supply chain
- Eliminate dependence on tribal knowledge and subjective decisions
- A high degree of manual processes across the value chain – too many touchpoints
- Real-time analytics and reporting not available
- Gaps in sales/marketing processes
Benefits
Katalyst provided ERP recommendations to help the client make an informed decision to support the next growth phase. The identified ERP will support:
- Current and future business needs
- Provide a scalable and agile platform for future innovation
- A direct-fit solution for the client’s wholesale distribution business
- Met the client’s budgetary requirements
