industry
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Science solutions leader needs better tech, but can’t afford a failed ERP experiment​

Key metrics:
  • Saved costs ahead of ERP implementation ​​​
Value levers pulled:
  • System selection
  • Target application stack design
  • Business intelligence & reporting strategy

Picture this...

You’re a PE-backed global material science solutions leader operating as 2 divisions across 7 lines of business. Your business is hosted across 14 ERPs and other connected business applications in over 30 countries. You need to evaluate and redesign your complex application footprint for improved efficiency. And you need support to effectively do so. ​

You turn to Accordion.

We partner with your team to lead ERP selection for your future state of consolidated businesses—documenting the business requirements, developing a future state application stack, creating a data management strategy, and selecting core and connected applications linked to value creation initiatives. Specifically, we:

  • Lead strategic collaboration with IT and business leaders to involve key stakeholders in reviewing and optimizing key business processes (Order-to-Cash, manufacturing, Procure-to-Pay, and Record-to-Report across 7 segments).
  • Conduct over 40 workshops to systematically document business requirements, establishing evaluation criteria for 14 existing ERP systems and potential solutions.
  • Assess and recommend enterprise applications packages and reporting solutions for enhanced decision support, integrating external, operational, and transactional data insights.
  • Design BI and data warehousing strategies, obtaining comparative cost estimates for licensing and services, and facilitating client selection processes.
  • Develop and present a business transformation case, detailing a multi-phased roadmap for implementing strategic initiatives and improvements organization-wide.

Your value is enhanced.

You save costs ahead of your ERP implementation. In addition, your cross-functional workshops provide clarity on future application strategies across divisions and global regions, gaining stakeholder buy-in. The business cases and roadmaps you’ve now developed prove critical for budgeting and planning.

Enhanced value:

You reap multiple benefits, including:

  • Saved costs ahead of ERP implementation
  • Business intelligence & reporting strategy​​​​