Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an investment that is strategic and it does not start end at the implementation. It goes beyond can have a multiple year revenue, compliance, training and transformational impact including future mergers, de-mergers or acquisitions.
At ZEST, our core focus is the tangible return on their time, resources and investment. We assit not only in selecting the right ERP for your organizational needs, we also ensure we help. You select the right system integration partner, change management partner and most importantly a strategy post go-live.
It is of paramount importance that organizations select and maintain an ERP environment that integrates and optimizes business processes and technology to realize process and control efficiencies, cost reductions, and effective compliance management.
ZEST always advices its customers that the core pillars of a successful ERP implementation are Process optimization, risk and controls, organizational structure and technology.
How ZEST Can Help - Benefits That Extend Throughout Your Organization
ZEST’s ERP Advisory Services practice can help provide objective advice “fiduciary services” that is not influenced or incentivized by a ERP product company or a systems integration vendor, solutions vendors, and business process outsourcers but it is an entirely transparent and holistic approach where we take a approach of being on the “client side”.
We provide end to end guidance and support towards an ERP implementation including advising on whether a client needs one to begin with and do they need to change one if they already have it. While advising on ERP and providing fiduciary services, our core goal and focus is on the business value.
Combining our deep ERP agnostic applications understanding with business process and control experience, we help organizations maximize their ERP ROI for better optimization of processes and business performance. We assist the clients in timely and accurate decision making. We also help them on intelligent and automated Business system controls which helps with the ROI and helps improve business risk management.
Fiduciary or Advisory services that ZEST provides has one simple goal: the ERP system that is implemented must aligned with business goals, sustain quality and deliver continued long-term value.
How ZEST Can Help - Our Services
ZEST’s ERP Advisory also known as “Fiduciary Services” offer a range of services where we are on the client side and we are not the System Integrator
- Vendor selection assistance for software and service providers
- ERP strategy development
- Business process and control design and integration validation.
- ERP project risk assessment validation
- System setup design / implementation plan validation
- Implementation stabilization oversight
- User access and segregation of duties rules design and implementation validation
- Reporting and business intelligence validation
- Reporting strategy and assessment validation
- Data management strategy validation
- Control monitoring tool selection and implementation including segregation of duties
- Security and identity management validation
- SOX sustainability and ERP automated controls assessment validation.
Why ZEST?
ZEST’s ERP Advisory/Fiduciary Services professionals have actual, wide range and deep business, technical and functional ERP applications knowledge.
What value do we bring
- We advise on the basis of objectivity, business perspective and impartiality.
- We just do not do this as “one more thing, we do this for living”
- With years of ERP implementations and the lessons learnt, our SME do not only educate, they question the status quo and our policy is “do not trust, always verify”
- ZEST does not get paid by any company (product or SI) thus we are truly neutral.
