Everything you need to know about a successful M3 go-live

Your Infor M3 go-live is a huge milestone and significant victory. Still, it's by no means the final step in your ERP investment journey.

While going live on-time and on-budget is a measure of success, it's just one part of the ERP realization puzzle—not the finish line.

A better measure of your investment's success is post-implementation operational efficiency and application environment efficiency. Stability in CRM, ERP, critical business applications and predictability can propel your business forward. 

So, how can you ensure stability and predictability? The key is the processes! To standardize the operations of a business, it's important to define and document all the processes.

Immediately after go-live, about 80% of problems arise out of lack of understanding or clarity among the user groups rather than a problem with the system. This gap costs the organization time, money and most importantly, the availability of mission-critical applications.

With processes in place, you can ensure both technical continuity and organizational continuity.

Here are some of the benefits of a successful ERP go-live:

• Improved operational efficiency: Structured and coherent services streamline operations for improved efficiency. It minimizes performance variance through documenting, analyzing and enforcing processes. Well-documented processes also reduce the risk of key talent is unavailable. 
• Enhanced collaboration & decision-making: Stable and predictable operations enable your employees, machines and relationships to work in unison. Processes extend clear guidelines for operations, making it easier for people to collaborate—which in turn helps you make quick decisions. In addition to supporting the existing workforce to optimize their operations, well-documented processes reduce the training time of incoming team members. 
• Better scalability and growth: Documented and structured services help productive, immediate user adoption, which allows enormous scope for growth and scalability. It also permits continual and timely changes to be incorporated, leaving room for organizational improvement.

Businesses are faced with both cross-market and traditional competitors every day, thanks to the extensibility of technology. Getting ahead and staying ahead requires realizing your investment and nurturing your ability to take advantage of business opportunities.

That's why we created ColumbusCare Application Management Services (AMS). It's a value delivery system covering reactive support services, proactive managed services and as-needed consultancy services. ColumbusCare AMS provides life cycle solutions for a customer's complete business applications platform. With a dedicated team of industry, technical and functional consultants, ColumbusCare AMS provides standardized building blocks that can be combined and customized depending on your business needs.

ColumbusCare AMS includes a wide range of applications tailored to your business needs:

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Every day you need to ensure that you can implement change and release management and/or support your users after you’ve gone live. This can happen when you have your processes well defined and documented. 

In the next step, your business learns to integrate its applications to achieve better business outcomes. That's where application management services (AMS) comes in.

In our free e-book, "The fundamental principles of AMS," you'll learn how to leverage digital technologies and capabilities to tackle key challenges in your business.