Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Practice Overview

Our Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) consulting practice offers a comprehensive range of functionality, industry solutions, and tools. LCI’s combination of business process knowledge and technology expertise enables us to help our clients maximize ROI on their ERP investments. We are equipped to solve our clients’ most complex implementation challenges by assessing, planning, deploying and maintaining ERP-based solutions. In addition, we can staff your project with qualified ERP specialists with experience in every industry and discipline

LCI is a leader in providing ERP solutions specific to the following industries:

• Banking & Financial Services
• Information Media & Entertainment
• Insurance
• Consumer Packages
• Manufacturing & Logistics
• Consumer Producers & Retail

Services

Our offerings include Workshops, Assessments, Strategy and Roadmap Development, Architecture, SAP consulting and implementation. Our strategy solutions services include assessing your needs, planning for development and implementation projects, and help in evaluating and selecting programs, policies and practices.

ERP Implementations – LCI’s ERP best-practices implementation strategies enable companies to manage the business in real time as opposed to at the end-of-month or quarter. This enables executives to make better decisions for the long term. When properly implemented, ERP solutions acts as a company-wide, ongoing process improvement tool that empowers the entire organization to become leaner, more efficient and, ultimately, more profitable.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) – LCI transforms companies with a linear, sequential supply chain into a responsive supply network – in which communities of customer-centric, demand-driven organizations share knowledge, adapt to changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable life cycles. LCI’s SCM practices provide broad services and applications for enabling responsive supply networks.

Product Line Management (PLM) – LCI’s product line management practice assists companies in acquiring the ability to perform essential business processes with modular software that is designed to work with other SAP and related software. , The key element that will make your organization stand out in today’s changing global environment is the ability to create and deliver innovative and market-differentiating products and services. LCI’s PLM practice provides you with full support for all product-related processes – from the first product idea, through manufacturing to product service.

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) - Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) issues are a top priority because company leadership increasingly understands that even small operational control weaknesses can significantly impair corporate performance. A cross-enterprise GRC solution dramatically simplifies management and execution of these activities. LCI offers new approaches for monitoring, identifying, and managing risk across the enterprise.

Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics – Analytics are crucial to addressing today's challenges and to capitalizing on tomorrow's opportunities. In today's complex economy, comprehensive, credible, and actionable insights are essential to making the best decisions, and to optimizing your business processes for greater efficiency and profitability. LCI assists organizations to put in place processes to support this in place.

Master Data Management (MDM) - The main objective of an MDM system is to publish an integrated, accurate, and consistent set of master data for use by other applications and users. This integrated set of master data is called the master system of record (SOR). The SOR is the one-source-of-truth for any given piece of master data, and is the single place in an organization that the master data is guaranteed to be accurate and up to date.

Netweaver - SAP NetWeaver™ is the technical foundation for mySAP™ Business Suite and SAP® xApps™ and is a Web services-based platform that offers a comprehensive, tightly integrated set of capabilities. Through our partnership with SAP and our Netweaver skills, LCI offers expert services that integrate people, processes, information and applications.

Upgrades - As companies become more dependent on their integrated ERP systems, the challenge is to strike the right balance between regularly updating the software and minimizing costs and disruption to the business. LCI provides expert and field-tested advice on developing and communicating a practical upgrade strategy and then building effective technical and functional processes.

Sample Engagements

Strategy
A comprehensive Financial Report Strategy engagement for a major Insurance Firm:

• Requirements workshops and requirements evaluation of business needs related to Financial Analysis and Consolidation;
• Fit/Gap assessment of SAP ERP solution
• Forward-looking Vision, Architecture and roadmap encompassing changes to culture, process, and technology, yet consistent with current organizational principles for Enterprise Data Warehouse usage

Implementation

• Strategic Enterprise Management - Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS) Data Model and Reporting Layer, real-time reporting and reconciliation layer and BI security model design
• Accounts Receivable (AR), Financial, Supply Chain Management (SCM) - Dispute/Collection Management, and business content for a major transportation company
• Design and implementation of SAP upgrades to ECC 5.0 with new PM/PLM functionality
• SAP Global GL Implementation for a major investment bank, including development of standards for documentation, testing and deliverables; development of US local regulatory reporting module within BW, managing SAP BW 2.0 B to 3.0 B upgrade.

Technical Expertise

SAP Technology and Tools include NetWeaver Components (EP/XI/MDM), Basis/ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0, ABAP, Solution Manager, as well as capabilities in SAP’s Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA).