What is the role of implementation partner?
Implementation partners generally come from specialized ERP consulting houses that are generally outside the organization. Being experts in a particular area (materials, production, finance or distribution), these experts from outside, not only bring software expertise with respect to particular ERP software, but also bring the extra benefit from their vast prior experiences in other firms where they would have implemented that particular ERP. Over the years, the implementation partners have developed enough know-how in the form of templates for implementation. These templates significantly reduce the cost and time of implementation and errors of implementation. Though implementation consultants charge a high fee, they bring significant amount of value, thanks to their prior experiences.
