Critical ERP deployment rescue

CONTEXT

• The Client is a large automotive equipment manufacturer who has decided to speed up & better secure the deployment of a SAP-based ERP across 170 production facilities worldwide
• Deployment has been engaged on a decentralized basis, and corporate control has thus far been very low to nil; ERP processes have accumulated delays and dysfunctions have jeopardized global productivity efforts

OBJECTIVES

• To help the Client to change gear: de-bottleneck the process, re-establish rigorous project governance and reposition it at the heart of the Group’s productivity challenge

TASKS

• Re-establishing project leadership (an interim seasoned manufacturing exec., not an IT expert)
• Rebuilding the ‘reference case’: assessment of the French pilot plant and of the benchmark system
• Revamping the general planning system, along with control of operations and analysis of production processes
• Streamlining management structures, based on a limited number of well-defined targets
• Setting up new processes and optimizing existing ones, in line with the general project schedule

OUTCOME

• Eventual alignment of all the processes on the French pilot test and rapid decrease of over-costs
• Scheduled reporting of the project progress to Corporate level, rebuilding trust & confidence
• Launch of the new system, ultimately in line with the initial schedule