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Implementing an ERP: Structure, Automate, and Secure Your Operations

Implementing an ERP: Structure, Automate, and Secure Your Operations

Your business is growing, and with it the complexity: spreadsheets multiplying, information getting lost between departments, decisions made blindly for lack of reliable figures. Implementing an ERP means taking back control. It's not about installing yet another piece of software: it's about adopting a new way of operating, collaborating, and steering. This training gives you the complete method to succeed in this strategic project — from scoping needs to a well-managed rollout — without falling into the pitfalls that cause one ERP project in two to fail.

The approach is concrete and field-oriented. You first learn to map your real flows, roles, and information breakdowns, so you don't simply replace old errors with faster ones. You then discover the levers that make the difference: standardizing processes rather than costly over-customization, securing and cleaning up your data before any configuration, and choosing a solution suited to your maturity. Finally, you tackle the configuration of the major modules — purchasing, sales, inventory, production, finance, HR — and the workflow automation that transforms productivity.

But an ERP is only worth something if the teams adopt it. So you learn to manage the project with rigor — steering committee, milestones, risk management, user testing — and to support change: train, reassure, simplify. By the end of the program, you know how to lead an operational rollout on time and on budget, build reliable dashboards, and turn your ERP into a true lever for control, efficiency, and growth. You no longer simply endure your operations: you structure, automate, and secure them.

What you walk away with

Far more than theoretical knowledge: a ready-to-use toolkit to run your ERP project from end to end.

A complete scoping method — flow mapping, requirements specification, and a solution-selection grid, directly applicable to your business.

A structured rollout plan — project governance, milestones, test plan, and data migration strategy to deliver without overruns.

Your management dashboards — the key indicators to track performance, inventory, sales, margins, and cash flow in real time.

Change management — a training and communication plan to win over your teams and ensure adoption.

Program — 14 sessions of 1 hour

A program that follows the real life of an ERP project: understand and scope, secure and choose, configure and automate, then deploy, support, and steer. Each session arms you with a method and a concrete deliverable for your own business.

Module 1 — Understand & scope (sessions 1-4)

1. What an ERP really is — beyond the software: a new way of operating. Modules, data integration, expected benefits, and the real causes of failure.

2. Mapping your current processes — analyze the value chain, the roles, the documents, and the approvals to reveal the real breakdowns in the information flow.

3. Defining the needs & the requirements specification — translate business objectives into clear, prioritized, and measurable requirements, without letting sales demos dictate the agenda.

4. Standardize rather than customize — adopt simple, repeatable, and documented processes; understand why every customization increases cost, complexity, and risk.

Module 2 — Secure & choose (sessions 5-7)

5. Cleaning up & securing the data — detect duplicates, inconsistencies, and gaps; normalize and secure the master data before any configuration.

6. The data migration strategy — decide what to migrate, how to transform the history, and how to validate the switchover without losing anything.

7. Choosing the right solution — compare cloud and on-premise, evaluate vendors and integrators, read a quote, and anticipate the total cost of ownership.

Module 3 — Configure & automate (sessions 8-11)

8. Configuring the core: purchasing, sales & partners — structure the sales and supplier cycle, the approval circuits, and the documents generated.

9. Inventory & production — model items, warehouses, movements, and bills of materials for accurate traceability and valuation.

10. Finance, accounting & HR — connect the operational flows to invoicing, cash flow, and payroll for a single, consistent source of information.

11. Automating workflows — triggers, alerts, chained approvals, and recurring tasks: transform productivity by eliminating manual data entry.

Module 4 — Deploy, support & steer (sessions 12-14)

12. Steering the project & managing the risks — project committee, clear milestones, progressive validation of modules, and user testing to deliver on time and on budget.

13. Supporting change — train according to profiles, communicate transparently, and win over the teams: it's adoption that brings the ERP to life.

14. Dashboards & continuous improvement — build reliable indicators (performance, inventory, sales, margins, cash flow) and establish an optimization loop after go-live.

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Mise en Place d’un ERP : Structurer, automatiser et fiabiliser vos opérations

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