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GFOA Resources for NIGP Forum 2025

GFOA Resources for NIGP Forum 2025

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ERP Systems and Technology

Sitting at the Head of the Table: Skills to Lead Your Next ERP Project Workshop Part 1

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects provide opportunities to upgrade technology, modernize processes and policy, adopt best practices, and transform administrative practices and outcomes throughout an organization. ERP projects are also high profile, expensive, and difficult. They require coordination and alignment between vendor and staff resources. Procurement professionals can serve a critical role in using the procurement process to drive readiness activities and make the right selection for ERP supplier. Focus will be on establishing outcome oriented requirements that can be used to help select the best value supplier. In addition, the session will highlight strategies to manage the evaluation team, define a process for evaluating proposals, and navigate the selection process with emphasis on reducing bias and properly weighing key decision factors. GFOA has done recent research into behavioral science and decision architecture that will be used as basis for group activities.

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ERP Systems and Technology

Sitting at the Head of the Table: Skills to Lead Your Next ERP Project Workshop Part 2

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects can present major challenges for organizations and many face risk of cost overruns, delays, difficulty in dealing with change, testing failures, business continuity and more. This session will focus on key risk areas within ERP contracts. GFOA assists local governments with contract negotiations and will draw from this experience to highlight current examples, market trends, and successful negotiation strategies. All ERP projects should have a detailed statement of work and contract that provides protection with milestone payments, clear deliverables, service level agreements, and other tools for accountability. In addition, the workshop will use interactive exercises and real examples to highlight common industry terms and strategies for negotiating away unfavorable terms found in most supplier contract templates that lead to changer orders.

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