What is a better way of getting stakeholder engagement for large investment without a smaller PoC-like approach?
The fundamental challenge is de-risking the process.
How does one get stakeholder engagement for TMS, WMS, MRP or ERPs? Those products are orders of magnitude more expensive than supply chain optimization software, and yet, there is no POCs.
I can't speak for the whole enterprise software industry. In its field, the Lokad approach to de-risking a quantitative supply chain initiative consists of many the whole thing accretive in a way that is largely independent of the vendor (aka Lokad).
Since Lokad charges on a monthly basis, with little or no commitment, and the process can end at any time. Whenever it ends, if it ends at all, the client company (the one operating a supply chain) can resume where Lokad left it.
The fine-print of the process and methodologies is detailed in my series of lectures https://lokad.com/lectures
The fundamental challenge is de-risking the process.
How does one get stakeholder engagement for TMS, WMS, MRP or ERPs? Those products are orders of magnitude more expensive than supply chain optimization software, and yet, there is no POCs.
I can't speak for the whole enterprise software industry. In its field, the Lokad approach to de-risking a quantitative supply chain initiative consists of many the whole thing accretive in a way that is largely independent of the vendor (aka Lokad).
Since Lokad charges on a monthly basis, with little or no commitment, and the process can end at any time. Whenever it ends, if it ends at all, the client company (the one operating a supply chain) can resume where Lokad left it.
The fine-print of the process and methodologies is detailed in my series of lectures https://lokad.com/lectures