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Software selection WMS TMS SCM ERP YMS
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With our requirements analysis and selection, we will find the right logistics software for you.

Situation / potential analysis

+ Clarify procurement needs

+ Criteria for software selection + weight selection criteria

+ Pre-select providers

+ Inform provider (RFI)

+ Reduce the number of bidders to 3

+ Tender documents 

+ Tendering (RFQ)

+ Accompany the preparation of offers

+ Visit 3 references

+ Get work samples (POC)

+ Offer presentations

+ Evaluate benefits per provider

+ Evaluate costs per provider

+ Give a recommendation for action

+ Give contract drafting tips

+ Commissioning the bidder 

Customer, owner, user

Requirements analysis WMS TMS

Software selection WMS TMS MES

1. Analyze as-is situation + potentials of SCM + TMS + WMS + WCS

Result: Benefit-oriented recommendation for action for the project application.

Our services
 

  • Analyze business processes / incidents

  • Functional analysis of IT systems

  • Analyze warehouse / organizational structures

  • Analyze transport relations / flow of goods

  • Analyze quantity structure / performance

  • Analyze data storage / interfaces

  • Analyze infrastructures / system operations

  • Audit total cost of ownership

  • Create a SWOT profile

  • Identify potential based on key figures

  • Assess potential monetarily (treasure map) 

  • Create CIA Change Impact Analysis

  • Measure catalog actual -> target develop

  • Present recommendation for action

Your benefits
 

You suspect that your logistics software no longer meets the requirements. Therefore, you want an external, neutral view with our professional SWOT analysis  Shop for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks and thus receive valuable information about areas of action for improvement.

You want to systematically analyze potential benefits and have them evaluated in € in order to ensure the basis for a real profitability of the IT investment in advance. This creates clarity as to how much software can cost you.  

 

You also need a clear project schedule with the necessary measures as a road map in order to gain support from stakeholders + management for your project, budget, resources + deadlines.
 

 

1. Analyze as-is + change for to-be
Analyze the situation

2. Define requirements

Result: Approved specification sheet that describes all requirements.

Our services
 

  • Analyze business processes / incidents

  • Functional analysis of IT systems

  • Analyze warehouse / organizational structures

  • Analyze transport relations / flow of goods

  • Analyze quantity structure / performance

  • Analyze data storage / interfaces

  • Analyze infrastructures / system operations

  • Audit total cost of ownership

  • Create a SWOT profile

  • Identify potential based on key figures

  • Assess potential monetarily (treasure map) 

  • Create CIA Change Impact Analysis

  • Measure catalog actual -> target develop

  • Recommended action  present

Your benefits
 

You want to specify your requirements from processes, warehouse, transport and IT structures for future software support in order to upgrade your own software or replace it with standard logistics software. To this end, we moderate workshops to analyse requirements.

 

You want to have your requirements described in a solution-neutral way in a specification of requirements in order to let software providers deliver reliable offers for realisation without a lot of costly gaps later on. 

 

We can supplement specifications above with process models, e.g. in BPMN notation or use cases, where appropriate. Our consistency check and your reviews round off this target concept prior to internal approval and joint publication.

 

2. Define requirements
Define requirements WMS TMS SCM YMS

3. Select software

The result of this selection phase is the signed software contract.

Our services
 

  • Analyze business processes / incidents

  • Functional analysis of IT systems

  • Analyze warehouse / organizational structures

  • Analyze transport relations / flow of goods

  • Analyze quantity structure / performance

  • Analyze data storage / interfaces

  • Analyze infrastructures / system operations

  • Audit total cost of ownership

  • Create a SWOT profile

  • Identify potential based on key figures

  • Assess potential monetarily (treasure map) 

  • Create CIA Change Impact Analysis

  • Measure catalog actual -> target develop

  • Recommended action  present

Your benefits
 

You want to find the most suitable partner for your requirements and budget from dozens of possible software providers.

To do this, we will define technical, commercial and soft criteria within the framework, take them into account in a multi-stage tender and evaluate them together. 
 
Following the joint evaluation of received bids, we can give your management an objectively substantiated recommendation for the award of the contract. In addition, you would like to have us at the table during the tendering and awarding process in order to achieve an optimal contract conclusion. 

 

Additional agreements such as a cost benefit agreement or service level agreements (SLA) with your own IT department may also need to be concluded. 

Select software WMS TMS ERP YMS

4. Specify the software

The result is the specification sheet or specifications including the development specification. 

Our services
 

  • Analyze business processes / incidents

  • Functional analysis of IT systems

  • Analyze warehouse / organizational structures

  • Analyze transport relations / flow of goods

  • Analyze quantity structure / performance

  • Analyze data storage / interfaces

  • Analyze infrastructures / system operations

  • Audit total cost of ownership

  • Create a SWOT profile

  • Identify potential based on key figures

  • Assess potential monetarily (treasure map) 

  • Create CIA Change Impact Analysis

  • Measure catalog actual -> target develop

  • Recommended action  present

Your benefit
 

You want your SCM, ERP, TMS, WMS + MFR solution to be defined as precisely as necessary so that innovative ideas are found, but you do not experience any surprises during development, testing, migration and operation.

We ensure quality of functional specifications + prototypes with our own ideas and reviews and other accompanying measures. In this way, we iteratively ensure that the GUI, software functions, workflow, documents, interfaces, hardware and your standards match the requirements previously set out in the specifications. 

We prepare the specification chapters on testing, training and migration + ensure that the obligations to co-operate are clear in the RACI matrix before release with a minimum of  contradiction.

 

Specify software WMS TMS ERP SCM YMS specification EWM LVS

+ Analyze supply chains

+ Analyze warehouse structures

+ Analyze material flow

+ Analyze business transactions

+ Analyze organization

+ Analyze volume data

+ Functional analysis of logistics  

   Software WMS, TMS, MES, ERP

+ Analyze IT interfaces

+ IT infrastructure audit ITIL 

+ IT system operation ITIL audit

+ Audit total cost of ownership

+ SWOT profile WMS, TMS, MES

+ Potential analysis (benefit map)

+ Change impact analysis

+ Catalog of measures is to be expected

+ Recommended action  give

+ Prepare the specifications 

+ Train core team in WMS

+ Prototype for critical aspects

+ Secure the content of the specification sheet + Examine the specification sheet (s)

+ Completeness vs. Check LH

+ Specify the scope of the test

+ Specify the scope of the training

+ Specify operation / support 

+ Track open issues

+ Development specifications 

+ Change requirements document.

+ Grant specification approval

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