Sohum 'S Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions integrate key business and management processes, providing a high-level view to an organization's business. ERP integrates fragmented business operations, often replacing multiplicity of legacy systems in the process.

The ERP opportunity for an organization lies in a fundamental change in business operations focussed on the guts of an enterprise: channel management, supply chain optimization, demand forecasting and other operations that can maximize customer service levels, minimize inventory levels and control other costs. These guts applications can be dramatically changed by examining overall business processes, rethinking organizational authority and responsibilities, and selecting and implementing appropriate ERP applications to focus on these areas.

Our Competencies

• Sohum has a rich experience in implementing all the leading ERP packages across the globe.
• Sohum provides an entire range of end-to-end services by means of its enterprise transformation methodology. Sohum provides an entire range of end-to-end services by means of its including business process optimisation, product implementation, customisation, developing interface tools between ERP tools and other systems, and optimisation and support of ERP implementation.
• Sohum has alliances with leading ERP vendors like SAP,Oracle and Peoplesoft, with sub-practices dedicated to each of these products, which helps sharpen focus.
• Sohum has also set up competence centres for each of these products so as to provide effective support to all clients worldwide, as well as develop internal competencies.

Sohum Offerings

Sohum provides value-added services in aligning the organization towards ERP implementation and optimization to ensure that organizational vision and strategy are integrated with the ERP vision. To derive maximum benefit from ERP implementations and to ensure that ERPs are truly used as decision support systems, Sohum integrates transformation across the three poles: people, process and technology.

• Enterprise visioning
• IT strategy formulation
• Benchmarking
• Business process optimisation
• Change management

The build phase essentially leverages the think phase recommendations and translates them into developing a solution across the organization. The services in this phase include delivering solutions in implementation, integration ERP across applications, customization, training, implementing change management initiatives, and data migration / cut-off strategies to ensure a smooth go-live of the ERP. Sohum also specializes in revalidating and optimizing ERP implementations to ensure that the benefits that are not leveraged due to implementation, process and people issues are identified and optimized. This ensures that planned ROIs are achieved.

• ERP implementation and gap strategy
• Prototype development
• Configuration
• Customization
• Interfacing and integration
• Migration
• Documentation
• Implementation monitoring
• Training

The third phase basically ensures that investment in ERP is safeguarded by implementing process and support which follows the continuous improvement path. Sohum supports ERP implementations but strongly advocates and implements a model for knowledge transfer to the organization based on a competence center model. Implementation of the optimization recommendations to ensure that ROIs are met and business performance measures are established and monitored are a part of the operate offerings. The various services offered in this arena include:

• Maintenance and production support
• Establishing competence centers
• Health check and optimization
• Systems integration and IT management
• Change management effectiveness

PeopleSoft practice

The PeopleSoft group which is part of the eBusiness service practice in Sohum specializes in implementation, upgrade and production support services of PeopleSoft applications. These solutions are designed to meet the business challenges in a highly competitive and dynamic environment.

The various services offered by PeopleSoft are:

• Consulting
• Implementation
• Post-implementation

Oracle practice

Sohum established the Oracle practice as part of its eBusiness service practice to focus exclusively on implementation and post-implementation projects involving Oracle Applications. The practice has more than 20 person years of experience in implementing Oracle Applications-based solutions.

Our alliance with Oracle provides us:

• Specialised training for our consultants
• Access to product information, sales and marketing tools, development licenses, technical libraries and forums
• Joint account planning, branding, and marketing efforts

SAP Practice

• Specialised training for our consultants
• Access to product information, sales and marketing tools, development licenses, technical libraries and forums
• Joint account planning, branding, and marketing efforts

As long time partners of SAP, we provide our customers with services across the breadth of the SAP solution space. Our customer focussed Global Delivery Model and experience across multiple industry verticals, enable us to deliver cost effective business solutions, with quality benchmarked against the best.