ERP Implementation & Support
End-to-end consulting and transformation support for next generation, cloud-based ERP
Impact Advisors Earns Best in KLAS: ERP Implementation Leadership for 2024
The Best in KLAS ERP Implementation Leadership designation is reserved for firms that are engaged in overall implementation and provide project managers and/or technical staff for ERP projects. The firm must demonstrate at least two of the three following key competencies: business transformation, application implementation management, and technical expertise. Services usually span the implementation life cycle, including implementation planning, change management, project management, system build/integration and end-user training. Firms are expected to have consultants with both depth and breadth of experience.
Impact Advisors received a score of 95.3 for ERP Implementation Leadership.
Challenges
As the only ERP consultancy focused exclusively on healthcare, Impact Advisors knows what hospitals and health systems need from their ERP ecosystem. We’ve collaborated with over 40 client organizations to deliver more value from their ERP solutions (including Oracle, Workday, and UKG) by addressing key business and operational challenges.
- Outdated and underperforming legacy ERP systems are expensive to maintain and lack functionality
- New ERP system not fully leveraged or delivering the value expected
- Need better system integration, a single source of truth, and improved reporting for more informed, agile decision-making
- Desire to prioritize business process optimization ahead of new system deployment
Value Delivered
Business transformation and margin improvement
Better user experience
and increased functionality (e.g., self-service capabilities)
Economies of scale
achieved through functional excellence in human resources, supply chain, finance, and other operational areas
Improved reporting
dashboards, data analytics, and data quality
Best practice automation of workflows
Actually achieving – and sustaining – value from a new cloud-based ERP solution goes far beyond the technology. Success requires careful and deliberate attention to governance, program management, business transformation, and change management.
How We Deliver Value
Impact Advisors brings proven healthcare-centric methodologies that complement those of the market’s top ERP solutions and vendors, including Oracle, Workday, and UKG. In addition to certified and highly skilled practitioners, we offer business transformation expertise, 18 years of large-scale implementation success, and a value-driven cost structure to guarantee achievement of your ERP goals and propel your organization forward.
ERP Due Diligence & Solution Selection
Substantial due diligence is essential when evaluating solutions for your future ERP system needs, and Impact Advisors is a market leader in this area. We begin by getting a clear understanding of your unique organizational needs and documenting those requirements compared to the full capabilities, service performance and enabling technology platforms of potential vendor partners. We know the market and the qualified vendors who have demonstrated success in the healthcare ERP marketplace at facilities like yours. We’ll help you understand the full costs, benefits, and implications of each option on your organization.
- Market scan and vendor options analysis
- Cost modeling and benefits identification
- Solution selection and contracting
ERP Project Planning & Readiness
We deliver a comprehensive, pre-project organizational planning and readiness program that includes:
- Project Governance
- Resource Planning, Project Team Formation, and Backfill Strategies
- Roles + Responsibilities
- Scope + Timeline Confirmation
- Data Migration Strategy
- Change Management and Training Plan
- Operational Transformation – Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain
ERP Deployment
We combine a deeply experienced team with proven deployment methodologies—designed to enhance those of major vendors—to deliver highly successful results across the ERP application portfolio.
ERP Client-Side Program Assurance
Our ERP Client-Side Program Assurance experts focus on ensuring the new ERP platform achieves your business objectives and is fully embraced by the people who will use it. Our services include:
- PMO Advisement
- Strategic Planning
- Functional Workstream Support
- Data Conversion and Validation
- Integration and Report Development
- Knowledge Transfer
- Training
- Change Management Strategy and Execution
ERP Change Management
Our Change Management approach is focused not only on technology and processes but also on developing new ways of working and cultivating the behavioral shifts needed to transform the organization. Count on our Certified Change Management experts to:
Partner with you to prepare the organization for the transformation to new possibilities within the ERP implementation by supporting organizational readiness, communication, and training
Strategize and co-create all necessary activities, empower employees to be involved, ensure we understand capacity, and set appropriate accountability through collaboration
Provide tools and techniques to be leveraged past go-live and enable the organization to grow and iterate as their change transformation evolves
ERP Post-Production Support
As your ERP solution partner, we will provide seamless support on your journey through go-live and beyond.
- Managed Services
- Product Expansion / Phase X
- Optimization
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
Strong Stories.
Detailed Experiences.
Case Studies.
After helping Methodist Health System with the assessment and selection of the new Workday ERP platform, Impact Advisors provided client-side program management support while the MHS team got up to speed on the full suite of products.
Workday ERP
Client-side program management
Delays in Workday deployment milestones, including a missed go-live date, prompted hospital leadership to seek expert resources to get the project back on track.
Hit go-live target date
Our Leaders
Ryan McDaniel – ERP Practice Leader
Ryan specializes in large-scale business transformation initiatives that look at people, process, and technology to rethink how finance, supply chain, human resources, and other critical business functions can be optimally delivered. He has worked with more than 50 healthcare and academic institutions in the U.S. and Middle East to improve operational efficiency and enhance compliance through the application of sound business principles.
Ryan Moore – ERP Practice Expert
Ryan is a dedicated and driven professional with more than 18 years of technology software experience across Human Capital Management, Finance and Supply Chain. His background includes executive leadership and working at the top ERP software companies. Over his career he has built the trust of clients to offer solutions that help organizations perform more efficiently and educate them on industry best practices and innovation with an identifiable return on investment.
Brian Evans – Workday Delivery Lead
Brian brings nearly 20 years of industry and consulting experience and is currently focused on delivering Workday cloud-based applications and services to healthcare clients, helping them maximize their technology investments and align those to their mission. He has led and delivered more than 50 enterprise software implementation projects.
Kyle Willis – Oracle Delivery Leader
Kyle is an experienced digital transformation leader and trusted client advisor specializing in the implementation of enterprise Oracle Cloud applications. He has demonstrable success in strategy formation, growth plan execution, and team building and management. He possesses expertise in leading projects focused on streamlining internal operations through business process redesign and improved use of new and existing technology.
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