The Test
How do your existing business applications stand up?
Does your CRM talk to your Supply Chain application?
Can you view the critical elements of your Supply Chain …
- At the push of a button?
- When you run a report?
- When you run several reports?
- When one of your staff tells you something is wrong?
- When one of your customers tells you something is wrong?
Does everything you do in your system post an accounting entry so that your accounts are always accurate?
Does your e-Commerce application talk to your accounts and inventory package?
A critical shipment is delayed. You have customers waiting, expecting delivery. What happens?
- You’re alerted by your system that a delivery date won’t be met
- Your system gives you a list of customers who need to be notified
- Your system displays one by one the contact details of those customers and how they prefer to be contacted
- All of the above
- None of the above
Can your current software manage 1,000 users? In other words, are you protected for growth without having to re-implement your software?
When you want to open another company, in another country, in another currency, what does your software vendor say?
- Yes, no problem.
- Let me come and talk to you about this.
- Let me think about this.
- There might be some enhancements (get your cheque book out).
- Um… I’ll come back to you.
You need to pay for an enhancement for something that is special to your business. What does your vendor tell you?
- It will be delivered into a standard release and supported from that day forwards.
- You will have to go onto a “Special” release (with no upgrade path).
- You will have to pay to have your enhancement included in every future release.
- Sorry, you are t0o small to have a special enhancement.
Do all your sites’ inventory packages talk to each other, and to your accounts?
