Business Solutions Consulting (BSC)

BSC offers business consulting services in the following areas:

BSC Business Consulting: Management

• Building a strategic management system based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC);
• Development of a business planning system (including management accounting and budgeting);
• Development of management accounting and management reporting methodology;
• Optimization and reengineering of business processes;
• Optimization of organizational and functional structure;
• Development and implementation of the project management system;
• Project management.

BSC Business Consulting: Finance

• Development of a model of financial and economic activities of the company;
• Development of budgeting methodology;
• Construction of accounting and taxation reporting system.

BSC Business Consulting: Marketing

• Development of marketing strategy;
• Market analysis;
• Assessment of business prospects;
• Customer Loyalty Program;
• Benchmarking.

BSC Business Consulting: Sales

• Evaluation of the sales department performance;
• Development and implementation of regulations and procedures for the sales department;
• Creation of an effective system of interaction between the commercial service and other divisions of the company;
• Current, seasonal and forward-looking sales planning;
• Optimization of assortment, customer, pricing and credit policies.

BSC Business Consulting: Manufacturing

• Development of production cost standards;
• Optimization of the production cycle;
• Development of models and systems for improving product quality;
• Increase the efficiency of production processes and the use of equipment.

BSC Business Consulting: Personnel

• Determination of the order of interaction between structural divisions of the company;
• Delineation of functional powers and areas of responsibility between subdivisions and positions;
• Develop a system of KPIs () KPI for personnel.

As a methodological basis for implementing ERP systems implementation projects, BSC uses StepWise, the development of Lawson Software.

The main goals of StepWise are:

• Involvement of a smaller number of the Customer's specialists in the ERP system implementation project;
• Initially, take into account 70-90% of industry specifics in the system settings and organization of business processes;
• Reduce risks when implementing an ERP system;
• Reduce the calendar time for ERP system implementation (up to 6 months);
• Reduce the Contractor's labor costs (BSC) for the implementation of the ERP system implementation project (120 - 150 man-days);
• Reduce ERP system support costs.

Who is StepWise meant for?

• Industries: Production, distribution and service;
• Business scale: Medium and large businesses;
• Organizational structure: Single-site and holdings, including geographically distributed ones;

ERP System Selection Approach:

• Maximum compliance with the best industry practice of the organization of business processes (including in terms of management accounting and budgeting);
• Functionality equivalent to SAP and Oracle
• The project budget is less than that of the Axapta Implementation Project (Dynamics AX).

Project Execution Approach:

• Maximum use of standard system functionality;
• Development of a standard and simple solution for branches;
• Minimal involvement of the Customer's specialists in the project.
• Project timeframe requirements: Minimum timeframes due to the use of a pre-configured solution that takes into account industry specifics.

StepWise line-up:

• A pre-configured database based on the Lawson M3 ERP system, based on the best business practice (including management accounting and budgeting) in a specific industry;
• Formalized description of all key business processes for production, trading and service enterprises;
• Special tools and documentation for organizing quick user training and system deployment;
• Adapted methodology for ERP system implementation, taking into account the Customer's individual requirements for project implementation:
• StepChange: The ERP systems implementation model is designed for companies switching from other software products to the Lawson M3 ERP system;
• SteppingUp: The model is designed for customers who already use Lawson solutions, but want to switch to a new version of the product;
• QuickStep: ERP systems implementation model for companies wishing to implement Lawson M3 ERP "from scratch";
• ValueStep: The model is designed for customers who want to expand the existing Lawson M3 ERP solution with new modules.

The main benefits of StepWise are:

• Start using all the advantages of ERP system implementation as soon as possible;
• The possibility of independent development of the system in the future;
• Industry solutions are supported and developed by the ERP system development company;
• Standard system functionality is used;
• Best-in-class solution is available with minimal investment (less than in the Axapta implementation project, Dynamics AX);
• An integrated approach to automation based on the best industry business practices (including management accounting and budgeting);
• The implementation methodology is based on international project management standards (PMBoK, IPMA).