The success of an ERP implementation depends heavily upon the experience of the project team.  Successful project teams usually consist of company employees familiar with company processes and procedures in addition to consultants.

The word consultant, however, has become so commonplace these days, it is important to understand the role a consultant should play in your implementation.  A consultant is an individual that should have a high level of experience with the product.  The experience the consultant has should be a direct result of working on several implementations. It is important, when meeting stringent deadlines, to hire experienced individuals that do not require on-the-job training to implement a system.  Consultants are brought into a project to meet the deadlines, assist in the implementation, and transfer knowledge to the project team.

At MyConsultant.com, we believe that, in addition to implementation experience, one of the most important qualities of an outstanding consultant is functional experience.

Functional experience gives a consultant the ability to more effectively assess the needs of implementation because he or she can bring product and process together.  The consultant with functional experience can create a system process that is practical to the day-to-day system user.