Panorama Consulting Group Promotes Natalie Gray to Director of Software Selection

Denver, Colorado – Panorama Consulting Group, an independent ERP consulting firm, today announced the promotion of Natalie Gray to Director of Software Selection. Ms. Gray will lead Panorama’s expanding software selection team.

Natalie Gray’s expertise includes fifteen years experience in information technology, management consulting, and enterprise software solutions. Her prior positions have included assignments at J.D. Edwards, now owned by Oracle, and Mincom. She attended Regis University and holds a degree in computer science with a minor in finance. She has experience with a host of ERP software packages and is well versed in business processes and operational subject matter with an emphasis on financial management, financial reporting and distribution.

“Since joining Panorama, Natalie has consistently demonstrated ERP industry leadership by adding tremendous value to our clients,” states Eric Kimberling, Panorama’s founder and president. “We are pleased to leverage Natalie’s expertise to lead our fast growth software selection team.”

Panorama Consulting Group service offering includes independent ERP software selection, ERP implementation and execution, and organizational change management consulting. The software selection team helps clients throughout the world evaluate and select a variety of enterprise solutions that includes ERP systems, customer relationship management solutions, distribution software, manufacturing software, warehouse management systems, accounting and financial management software packages.

For additional information on Panorama’s software selection and implementation services, please visit Panorama’s website at http://panorama-consulting.com/services/.

About Panorama Consulting Group

Founded in 2005, Panorama Consulting Group is a niche-consulting firm specializing in enterprise resource planning solutions for mid-market companies globally. Independent of affiliation, Panorama helps companies in ERP software selection, ERP implementation, and organizational change management to assure that each of its clients realize the full business benefits of their newly purchased ERP system. More information is available at http://www.panorama-consulting.com.

Integrating Six Sigma and ERP

I recently came across a good question on how to integrate Six Sigma with an ERP project. Using an ERP financials implementation as an example, there are three key items to keep in mind to link your Six Sigma and ERP initiatives:

First, to integrate Six Sigma with your financial management software, it will be important for you to define your business processes for key financial processes, such as period-end close, A/P, A/R, consolidation, reporting, etc. These processes should be documented in detail (at least level 2/3), along with the inputs, outputs, and employee responsible for each process.

Second, it is important to define what the key performance measures are for each of the sub-processes you define. For example, measures such as number of business days required to close the books, number of adjustments, A/R days outstanding, etc. will help you measure the efficiency and quality of your processes. These measures should also map and align with higher-level corporate goals and performance measures.

Finally, once you have defined the key business processes in detail along with their related performance measures, it is important to ensure your ERP reporting is aligned accordingly. If your performance measures are not easily attained from within your ERP's business intelligence software, then you may have to measure using report-writers, other systems, or manual processes. Either way, you will need to define the process for collecting performance measure data on a regular basis to measure process and performance quality.