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ERP consulting and specifications
Creating an ERP requirements specification is one of the most critical steps in any ERP selection.
A high-quality specification provides a clear picture of your business goals — linking customer focus, process efficiency, and data quality. It ensures that your future ERP system aligns not only with today’s operations but also with your long-term strategy, supporting scalability and adaptability in changing markets.
A well-defined specification minimizes misunderstandings with vendors, reduces costly delays, and lays the foundation for a successful implementation.
When the specification is vague or incomplete, problems only surface later — often when the project is already off track. At Dreher Consulting, we’re often called in at that stage to stabilize and realign ERP projects that have lost direction or run over budget.
What makes a good specification?
A good specification is able to map your business model of tomorrow, including requirements that will be effective today and in the future. A good specification should not describe a long list of functions and functional requirements.
The requirements specification should provide the future software supplier with a quick and comprehensive overview of your requirements and the process model without getting lost in the details. Classic selection procedures with infinitely long Excel function lists (which often still appear in the market) are not suitable for capturing and verifying requirements in the context of digitalisation, digital transformation and data analysis.
This also applies to tools that enable software selection on the web. Such selections are usually made on the basis of a few criteria that exclude many relevant requirements. Caution should also be used with platforms that get paid for their recommendations or are endorsed by software providers. Your new ERP software must support current and future processes, as such they must be defined in ERP specifications, creating clarity for you and for potential providers.
"For 15 years we have been working with Dreher Consulting on various tasks in the context of process optimisation. We have achieved all our goals and will work with Dreher Consulting again."
What you get from us?
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ERP consultants experienced in your industry as direct contacts
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Rapid ACTUAL recording of your existing processes using modern process mining software and data analysis tools
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Creation of requirements for the specifications with the business units
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Consolidation of the decentralised requirements
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Implementation of quality assurance with weighting and logic testing
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Creation of requirements in the context of interfaces
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Creation of requirements and documentation of workflows and approval procedures
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User and role concepts for the use of a new ERP software including initial rights management
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Text and graphics for the finalisation of the requirements specification
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Consulting in the context of optimising business processes
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