The selection of ERP software has become an internal and own art. Whether you buyers of software and new or experienced technology services, the task of choosing ERP complex software, takes time and will have a big impact on your business health. At the beginning of the process, you want to ensure that you are carefully approaching the selection process using plans and criteria that will take you to the best path for your organization and company. Many jobs have come and go at the expense of "ERP Gone Bad" and the tips provided here will help you develop a selection plan based on the best practice of industry and year of analyst experience. Each of the ten tips can be used as a category as part of the overall evaluation framework.

1. Products/Services: features, capabilities, and core product services provided as part of a complete offer. This includes the relevance of supply in the market space compared to competition.

2. Company viability: financial health and company organizations and their ability to compete and advance in market space. This includes their ability to invest in future product development and research.

3. Execution of Sales and Prices: The company's ability to successfully show features, capabilities, and business values ​​of their products and become competitive prices.

4. Customer Experience: This is where you start measuring how it feels to be a vendor customer. How is their technical support? Are they responsive? There is nothing more frustrated than feeling abandoned after purchase. Especially a very large purchase.

5. Market Understanding: The ability of vendors to be able to listen to market needs (customers) and translate them into product strategies and features.

6. Product Strategy: Vendor Approach to Product Development with Emphasis on Features, Functionality and how to measure current and future requirements.

7. Vertical Industry Strategy: The company's ability to harmonize product vision with the needs and trends of customers, markets and industries. Vendors must participate and have votes in industrial and event users.

8. Geographic Strategy: Explain how and where vendors direct the available resources to support various aspects of business. Get an understanding of how they will support you as a customer; whether it is direct or through channel partners.

9. Track Record: Corporate history in providing successful solutions that produce positive results for their clients. One way to measure this is through client references.

10. Business Model: Ranking for strength of company value propositions relevant to the market they serve.

The ten areas listed above discussed the most important aspects that you need to evaluate as part of your whole decision making process. Try to enter this 'tips' into your overall framework and evaluation plan. They will give you a good basis for determining the best ERP system for your company's needs. And hopefully the results will be an ERP system selection that meets your needs and is a platform to become a high -performance organization that utilizes technology to support decision making and fuel growth.