At RubinBrown, our team of over 100 team members with over 250 years of combined experience has the tools to implement complex ERP systems across verticals.
At RubinBrown, our team of over 100 team members with over 250 years of combined experience has the tools to implement complex ERP systems across verticals.
The majority of our clients are companies involved in manufacturing, engineering, logistics, construction, not-for-profit, professional services, and consumer services worldwide. However, we also serve the agriculture, healthcare, government, and energy sectors. Since our team is dedicated to understanding our clients' needs, we are skilled at recommending the best solutions for them regardless of the industry.
Read what some of our clients have to say in these case studies.A partnership with RubinBrown is much more than just picking your new ERP system. We manage your project as a business transformation project, not just an IT project. We help you get the best results expected from the new system.
Our team will support your organization to provide the best outcomes that add value to your business. This process starts with careful planning. By developing an ERP and IT roadmap, we can create a custom process to manage, resource, and execute strategic initiatives. Ultimately, we create a future state view of your business to understand what your ERP system must do in order to support your business long term.
Our approach to creating an ERP roadmap includes:
Our team uses the ERP roadmap to make the most informed recommendations for your ERP system. Other factors we consider when developing your roadmap include reviewing all aspects of your organization:
This comprehensive review of your business and all related applications helps us to shortlist the ERP systems best suited for your business. We can provide a range of options as part of our ERP selection services and then outline any customizations that would provide value for your business in the long term.
Considerations involved with this step include:
We can also help with vendor contract negotiations as part of our ERP partnership. Negotiating contracts, especially large enterprise software contracts potentially with recurring charges, is a must. RubinBrown has helped our clients save millions of dollars in contract negotiations. Negotiating terms and conditions that protect you and hold the vendor accountable is just as important as hard dollar savings. RubinBrown keeps our client’s best interests in mind throughout the negotiation process.
Our team will work with you and the selected software provider to create a successful implementation. This includes developing a plan for change management, which is crucial because ERP implementation is not just a software upgrade, but a transformation impacting every level of your organization. Robust change management can help reduce employee resistance to the new system and improve productivity.
Employees may experience anxiety or resistance when faced with a totally new ERP system. That is why our team is involved with training. We can help create and deliver the entire training package needed to ensure the performance of all employees, not just those directly applicable to the new business system.
Post-implementation support involves sessions with your project team and subject matter experts. Each session is customized according to the specific business area to help your employees get the most out of this dedicated time.
We have successfully managed hundreds of enterprise software implementations through our active project management process. Our team helps keep your implementation project in scope, on-budget, and on-time to ensure that it is a success.
The RubinBrown team has proved time and time again that we understand how to launch and support complex ERP system upgrades. Check out our case studies to learn more.
The Project Management Institute states that 90% of project management is communication. RubinBrown will enable you to properly set up your project, identify sponsors, define key resources, create schedules and milestones, and carefully manage risks and critical efforts for your project.
As business managers with deep industry knowledge, we leverage our expertise to help you build a winning team, helping you align the right resources in the right places, to elicit high performance. We will provide constant and necessary guidance, communication, and confidence until your project is a success.
RubinBrown does not only partner with companies at the first step in the ERP selection process. Our team has the management experience and understanding of ERP systems to help rescue overbudget, overdue, and underperforming ERP system purchases and/or upgrades.
Projects always start off with good intentions. Good intentions include defined timelines, budgets, and business objectives. Once a project is in trouble, alarms tend to go off and the project is given the unfortunate label of “doomed.”
You can save the project by calling the professionals at RubinBrown to help you correct the project, recover your objectives, and get the team across the finish line. We can turn your troubled project into a success with our active project management and expertise.
Good business is anchored by good processes. RubinBrown’s advisors treat process redesigns as both art and science, balancing strategic goals with operational elegance. We empower our clients with the ability to make data-driven decisions that inform business process improvement.
Our personal and in-depth approach to business process improvement means that we will meet with the project team and other experts at stages throughout an ERP system upgrade. This is in order to properly identify business objectives and to identify future challenges that the new ERP system will need to navigate in the future, so we can make the most informed recommendations for your system.
We also host workshops for employees so they can fully understand the new ERP solution. We emphasize education and communication to ensure that employees are comfortable with the new systemin ensuring its long-term success and efficiency.
Our consultants are highly skilled in enterprise software selection and implementation, organizational change management (OCM), business process reengineering (BPR), and IT strategy and implementation. Our average consultant has more than 20 years of experience and leadership in driving real change in people, processes, and technologies
We understand that some of our clients have a greater level of expertise in the entire software selection, purchase, upgrade, and implementation process. Our model is built to allow you to use our services when you need them, whether it be for the entire process, as a valued collaborator, or as an expert in a specific area. We have the flexibility in our model to work with you in a role that best meets the needs of your company.
We can field any ERP-related request. Companies call us when:
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