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Baan Utilization Review & Process Improvement

Baan Business Process Consulting & Utilization Review

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Crossroads RMC's consultants expertise comes from 30+ years of experience aligning Infor ERPs with manufacturer's unique business strategies. Our team excels at identifying the strengths and weaknesses of Infor ERP systems, and providing a comprehensive insight to improve efficiencies, lower costs, and maximize the return on your ERP investment. Whether you know exactly what needs to be done, or don't know where to start, Crossroads RMC works with your team to get you the most out of your Infor ERP.




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What is Business Process Consulting?

Crossroads RMC's consultants improve your Infor ERP system based on a pre-identified issue, often found during a Utilization Review. Our Business Process Improvement Consultants can fix your issue, train your team to resolve the issue, or work side by side with your team to resolve the issue.

What is a Utilization Review or ERP Assessment?

Crossroads RMC's consultants perform a complete review of your business processes that relate to your Infor ERP System. The assessment can be performed on-site or remotely, and include a comprehensive write up of the findings, prioritized recommendations that include estimated costs, benefits, and a plan of action to be systematically discussed with key management personnel. A typical Utilization Review is a deep dive that targets the business processes that require change to improve your system data and expected outputs, and typically takes a few days to complete. 

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Types of Baan Utilization Reviews

If your business requirements and your resources have undergone major change since your original implementation, it is time to take a look at your ERP system to see if it is being utilized properly. The Crossroads RMC Utilization Review is designed to work with your people to identify the best way to apply the powerful capabilities within the Technical Systems / Tools, MRP, Supply Chain, Financial, and Manufacturing modules within the Baan software to best suit the needs of your business, not only today, but in years to come.

Technical Systems / Tools analyzes these functional areas:

  • Baan Infrastructure review (Install structure, services, components, etc.)
  • Internal Memory Management
  • Shared Memory Usage
  • User Setup
  • Authorizations
  • Database Setup
  • Third-Party System Integration Review
  • DB User and Group Management
  • Backups, Log Monitoring, etc.
  • Tools Administration
  • Audit Management
  • EDI Setup
  • Performance Monitors/Boosters
  • Job Management

MRP Utilization Review analyzes the current setup and MRP reporting requirements for your organization to identify any missing or disconnected elements including the potential for improvement in the following areas:

  • Planning
  • Safety Stock
  • Scheduling
  • Production Operation Metrics

Supply Chain Utilization Review analyzes the current setup and requirements for your organization to identify any missing or disconnected elements including the potential for improvement in the following areas:

  • Master Data
    • Parameters
    • Common
    • Item Master
    • Cost Accounting
  • Inventory Control
  • Location Control
  • Lot Control
  • Replenishment Order Control
  • Distribution Requirements Planning
  • Purchase Control
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Finance Utilization Review : analyzes the current setup and the Financial reporting requirements for your organization to identify any missing or disconnected elements including the potential for improvement in the following areas:

  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • General Ledger
  • Cash Management
  • Financial Statements
  • Fixed Assets
  • Budget Control
  • Financial Integrations
  • Costing

Manufacturing Utilization Review analyzes the current Manufacturing setup and requirements for your organization to identify any missing or disconnected elements including the potential for improvement in the following areas:

  • Master Data
    • Parameters
    • Common
    • Item Master
    • Engineering Data Management
    • Production Bill of Material
    • Routing
    • Cost Accounting
  • Master Production Scheduling
  • Material Requirements Planning
  • Capacity Requirements Planning
  • Shop Floor Control
  • Hours Accounting
  • Repetitive Manufacturing
  • Product Configuration
  • Project Control (PCS)
  • Routings
  • Engineering Data Management
  • Tools Requirements Planning

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How can a Utilization Review help my company?

Your ERP system lies at the heart of your business. How it’s utilized is critical to operating a stable, well understood and effective business system. Crossroads RMC's consultants have helped 500+ Infor customers increase the return on their Infor ERP investment by utilizing proven processes to optimize your manufacturing systems through the most cost effective means possible.

My ERP Needs
an Upgrade

Businesses relying on outdated systems are open to increased vulnerability, decreased productivity and a loss of competitive advantages.

Upgrades & Implementations

It’s time to evaluate the functionality of your ERP system and how it supports your business initiatives. Newer ERP versions provide easy to implement workflows, and take your business to the next level with a cost-effective solution on premise or in the cloud.

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Our ERP Expert
Left the Building

Employees come and go, but not having the right people or tools to support your organization can be crippling.

Support & Training Services

Whether you have a quick question, need supplemental resources or training to tackle a specific problem, or require ongoing managed services, our consultants have the tools to help you through any unique ERP challenge. You can rely on our 35+ years of consulting expertise and 24x7 support.

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My Supply Chain
Needs Serious Help

The last thing you want to risk is your relationship with customers and suppliers, but having poor visibility to your supply chain does just that.

ERP Integration & ERP Enhancement

If you need to improve customer satisfaction or streamline communication with your suppliers, our team has the expertise to analyze your unique business challenges and provide you with a cost-effective solution that adds a competitive advantage.

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My ERP is
Stuck in a Rut

It's hard to stay competitive when business needs and ERP versions keep changing, but doing the same things over and over won’t yield different results.

ERP Utilization Review & Consulting

It’s time to evaluate the functionality of your ERP and how it supports your business initiatives. Our team has developed best practices to improve the way your employees, resources and technology work together. Performed on-site or by video analysis.

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FAQs

Baan Utilization Review & Process Improvement Consulting

Typically 3-5 days per functional area including the post review write-up of findings.

Subject matter expert(s) from the area being reviewed. Time required is mostly for a pre and post review meeting and accessibility during the review to answer questions.

If possible, make a test system available that is a duplicate of production, make sure subject matter expert(s) can be available when needed, identify objective for the review, secure VPN access for the consultant doing the review.

The consultant will create a post-assessment summary document detailing his/her findings and recommendations and will conduct a post review meeting to review the entire document with your team.

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