On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Typically with the help of a consulting company with domain knowledge > in the industry and/or ERP methodology. > > Budget for a competent consultant (who knows both ERP as a methodology > and at least one software implementation). End user training should > be part of the contract. Convince the friend's father not be penny > wise and pound foolish in this aspect. I mention this specifically > because I have experienced this first hand. In one case, the CEO > wanted the system to be "distributed" pan India in remote mills but > balked at the price. He told me he could do it with a "networked" > version of the most popular accounting package starting with the > letter T. I told him he was welcome to do what he thought was best > for his enterprise. > > A well implemented ERP can pay for itself in a matter of couple of > years - the opposite can be a disaster. Some of the biggies are > offering it as SAAS. > >> 3. And a dumb one. Suggest a package / service. Preferably free license, as >> he is going to test it out and convince his father before getting it >> deployed in real world. > > openBRAVO has a downloadable virtual appliance that you can experiment > with. openTAPS also used to have one.
There was thread on this list with significant traffic on open source ERP a while back. Of the options, I remember TinyERP having support and implementation services out of Ahmedabad. Best to check all these sites for implementation partners and see if you can any close by with good references. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
