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ERP

eNterprise resourCe plaNNiNg

At tomLInSon – PArt 3

Tomlinson’s ERP selection process has been progressing on plan. Since the last edition of the

Tomlinson Times we have received the responses from 8 vendors for our Request for Proposal

(“RFP”). The vendor proposals ranged from a 51% to an 82% fit for the 1,020 requirements we

asked them to report on.

Phase Title
Status Compleion
So, where are we now?

1 Select ERP Consultant
10/2014
At the ime of wriing, the 8 ERP vendors are

2 RFI Kickof
11/2014 presening Tomlinson with a synopsis of their RFP, a

small demonstraion of their soluion and an overview of
2 RFI Workshops 4/2015
their proposed implementaion methodology. Given the
implementaion will be a partnership between Tomlinson
2 Prepare RFI
5/2015
and the system integrators, meeing the ERP vendors

2 RFI to Vendors
5/2015 allows us to assess the teams that would be working

with us on this important project. Once completed, the
2 RFI Response Analysis
7/2015
vendor presentaions will be used to create a short-list of

2 Short List Vendors
7/2015 3 vendors to coninue in the system selecion process.

3 RFP Kickof
8/2015
What are the next steps?

3 RFP Workshops
9.2015
The ERP team will be coordinaing with our key

3 Prepare RFP
11/2015 subject mater experts (“SMEs”) to develop Tomlinson-

speciic end-to-end process scripts for key items with in
3 RFP to Short Listed Vendors 11/2015
our organizaion. The 3 vendors selected will be asked to

3 RFP Response Analysis
1/2016 prepare and present a detailed demonstraion of their
proposed soluion answering to the scenarios proposed

3 Short List Vendors
2/2016 in the scripts.

From this process, we anicipate further reducing the
4 Prepare Demo Script
3/2016
vendor list to 1 or 2 vendors, who we will then go through

4 Demo Short Listed Vendors
4/2016 a detailed due diligence exercise upon. This process will

include interviews with each vendor’s exising and recent
4 Select Vendor
5/2016
customers so we can understand their saisfacion with

4 Plan Implementaion
6/2016 the ERP and the implementaion partner.

Once this step is complete, we should be down to the
4 Vendor Due Diligence (*new)
7/2016
inal vendor for selecion and contract inalizaion.

Changes will start coming much faster from this point

onwards and it will be an exciing ime for everyone.

As always, if you have any quesions, please feel free to

contact us at ERPTeam@tomlinson.com.

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