System Alignment

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Objectives

This study is designed to be a wide ranging review of current business practices and the ability of the existing information systems infrastructure of your company to support these practices and future operational goals. To be most effective, our review and analysis will cover all levels of the organization, both inside and outside of the information systems department.

The primary objective is to develop a three to five year plan for your company to prepare to better align your information systems infrastructure to meet the requirements of supporting your business objectives. The study is performed as a hands-on, in-the-trenches exercise designed to find disconnects between business processes, business system configuration and short/long term operational goals.

Why You Should Consider a Study

Are you getting the performance and payback you expecting from your existing GrowthPower system? Have you effectively configured your information system to support the business practices and operations of your organization? Do your policies and procedures support the most cost effective use of your information system? Does your GrowthPower system support the open systems environment required to coexist with your other existing information systems applications? Most companies would answer NO!

We can conduct a performance study of your GrowthPower system to ensure that you are receiving the highest possible return on your investment. We assess all your information systems and their ability to support your business process infrastructure. This will ensure that you are prepared to fully leverage your existing investments and to take full advantage of the new enterprise techniques being implemented by other successful companies like yours around the world.

Study Outline

Interviews with personnel representing all of the critical departments, including but not limited to:

Administration	Engineering
Finance and Accounting	Information Systems
Inventory Control	Manufacturing
Planning	Purchasing
Sales and Marketing	Service

The objective of these interviews will be to fully understand how both your product and information flows within the organization, and to identify opportunities for improvement. We will be focusing on how effectively GrowthPower meets the business requirements of the specific departments and your company as a whole. What functionality already exists within GrowthPower that could be utilized to meet those needs, and what additional tools your company may require to make your information flow more efficiently.

We will review policy and procedure and make recommendation for re-engineering as required. We will also endeavor to identify functionality necessary to address needs that may not exist within GrowthPower and how that functionality might be attained. The study includes cursory analysis of the physical hardware systems including most aspects of the operating environment.

The study includes an evaluation of additional database systems in place outside of GrowthPower and a means to cost effectively manage the data to maximize efficiency and to facilitate reporting.

Our Commitment - The Deliverables
We prepare a detailed written report outlining our key findings, areas for improvement and a discussion of the short and long term strategies necessary to reach your operational goals. This report is presented to your company management on the last day of the study. Emphasis is placed on recommendations for improvement and how to achieve higher performance from one of your largest and most important investments - your information systems infrastructure.

Our final report will include:

Review of company operational performance goals

Management policy and procedure

Software configuration review

Operating data review - accuracy and relevancy to support current operational goals

Analysis of information systems strategy and resources to support current business processes

Technical knowledge and staffing

Business system user skills and knowledge assessment

Review of hardware and software investment strategy required to attain goals

Why Pivital Solutions?

At Pivital Solutions our primary goal is to help you gain strategic and competitive advantages by making the most of your information systems investment. Our main objective is to help you work out inefficiencies in existing GrowthPower installations before recommending any additions or changes. If additional products are necessary, we have the experience to provide guidance through the selection and implementation processes.

We have extensive experience in supporting a cross section of manufacturing clients. Our staff has accumulated approximately eighty years of collective experience with the GrowthPower software as well as a wealth of general business expertise. As practicing consultants we are involved with current procedures as well as evolving industry initiatives.

While we are indeed, GrowthPower experts, we are not wedded to the product. We have a wealth of experience in managing implementation projects of other ERP systems for GrowthPower customers. Should our evaluation determine that your business needs would be better served by replacing, or augmenting, GrowthPower with other software, we will not hesitate to so advise you.

We are uniquely qualified to evaluate your information system. Our extensive GrowthPower expertise allows us to fully understand your existing systems qualities and limitations. But our commitment to not forming ERP affiliations allows us to remain completely unbiased in our systems assessment with regard to any recommendation.

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