ERP expertise
ERP consultants for industry: selection, integration and application maintenance
Purchasing, production, inventory, quality, finance: your ERP must reflect the reality of your shop floor. Our industrial ERP consultants support you from choosing the solution through to its evolution.
Why work with an ERP consulting firm?
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is the management system of record for a manufacturing company: parts, manufacturing bills of materials, routings, procurement, production orders, inventory and costs. When it is poorly configured or poorly connected to the rest of the information system, teams compensate with spreadsheets.
An industrial ERP consultant brings knowledge of production processes as much as of the software. CNEXT works on deployment, overhaul and upgrade projects, and on interfaces with PLM and MES.
The problems we solve
Situations we regularly encounter with our industrial clients.
Re-keying between PLM and ERP
Bills of materials are copied by hand from the design office; errors end up in procurement and production.
Over-customised ERP
Years of custom development make every upgrade risky and costly.
Unreliable data
Inventory, lead times and costs do not reflect reality; planning and performance management suffer as a result.
Difficult solution choice
Between international solutions and mid-market ERPs, the choice commits the company for more than ten years.
Our ERP services
We work on the client side, providing business-side project assistance (AMOA), as well as reinforcing integration teams.
- Scoping and audit of your existing ERP
- Solution selection and support with the vendor tendering process
- Project assistance: requirements definition, acceptance testing, integrator management
- Solution, software and infrastructure architecture
- Integration, configuration and custom development
- Migration and legacy data transfer
- Version upgrades
- Interfaces with other information system components
- Change management and training
- Third-party application maintenance
These services are part of our four offerings: strategy consulting, business consulting, integration and deployment and support, maintenance and training.
What you gain
Tangible benefits, which we measure with you throughout the project.
Reliable master data
Parts, bills of materials and routings are consistent with the definition from the design office.
Less re-keying
Data flows with PLM and MES are automated and traceable.
More accurate performance management
Inventory, costs and lead times reflect the reality of the shop floor.
Controlled upgrades
An ERP that stays close to the standard evolves more easily with the vendor.
Our method
A step-by-step approach, tailored to the size of your project.
1
Understand
Workshops with business teams, analysis of processes and the existing landscape, identification of pain points and priorities.
2
Design
Target architecture, solution selection, phased roadmap and data migration plan.
3
Deliver
Configuration, development, interfaces and acceptance testing in iterations, with key users.
4
Embed
Training, go-live support, application maintenance and upgrades to make the solution last.
Keys to a successful ERP project
- Formalise the target processes before comparing solutions.
- Limit customisation and document every deviation from the standard.
- Clean up master data (parts, bills of materials, routings) before migration.
- Plan the interfaces with PLM and MES from the design stage.
- Train key users early so that they drive the change.
Technologies we master
ERP solutions on which consultants from our pool of 3,600 experts work.
- SAP (ERP, PM, PLM)
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- IFS
- Infor M3
- Infor System21
- Infor PLM Discrete
- Oracle ERP
- JD Edwards
- Sage X3
- Cegid XRP Flex
- Odoo
- Divalto infinity
- Genesys
Profiles deployed
Depending on your needs, we build a team or provide a targeted expert.
- ERP project manager
- Product Owner
- Solution architect
- Functional consultant / Business Analyst (production, purchasing, logistics, finance)
- Software architect
- Developer
- Infrastructure consultant
Industries served
Our ERP consultants work in particular in these industries:
Frequently asked questions
How do you choose an ERP for a manufacturing company?
By starting from your key processes (type of production, bill of materials management, traceability, multi-site operations) rather than from features. We formalise the requirements, organise the tender and compare solutions on real-life scenarios.
Which ERPs do you master?
SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, IFS, Infor (M3, System21), Oracle and JD Edwards, Sage X3, Cegid XRP Flex, Odoo, Divalto infinity and Genesys.
Do you work on ERPs that are already live?
Yes: audits, upgrades, reducing customisation, new interfaces, application maintenance and user training.
Can you connect our ERP to PLM and MES?
That is at the heart of our digital continuity approach: we define which system is master for each item of data and design the corresponding interfaces.
A PLM, ERP, MES or EAM project? Let’s talk.
Speak with an expert to scope your needs, with no obligation.
contact@cnext-consulting.fr
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CS20001, 95015 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex