The Importance of Visualizing Work in Large ERP Implementations

Jason Coe is a Project Management Professional, and he is currently employed at Accenture as an Associated Director in their Oracle Supply Chain practice. Jason has over 20 years’ experience delivering Oracle ERP projects. Jason has worked on three global ERP projects where he has implemented Oracle in 33 countries. In addition, he has physically visited 6 continents and over 20 countries. Jason holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology and Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Large-scale enterprise resource planning projects are always complex and deal with many challenges outside the underlying software and core processes they enable. ERP projects tend to challenge an organization’s ability to redefine itself, especially in cloud. Roles and functions shift, requiring extensive change management. ERP initiatives normally require complex integrations. Even in the new SaaS era, companies are using software services for human capital management, ERP and supply chain.

Regardless of waterfall or agile, there is always pressure on ERP teams to hit certain milestones along the ERP timeline. The below table outlines some of the challenges each ERP team must overcome:

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