RFP/RFI SAMPLE TEMPLATE Enterprise Resource Planning ...

RFP/RFI SAMPLE TEMPLATE
Enterprise Resource Planning Extended (ERP Discrete &
Process)
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ERP Extended (Discrete & Process) Software Selection RFP Template (Table Of content)
Criterion
1
2
Financials
This encompasses modules for bookkeeping and making sure the accounts are paid and/or received on time.
1.1 General Ledger
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
General Ledger keeps centralized charts of accounts and corporate financial balances. It supports all aspects of the business
accounting process. In this module, financial accounting transactions are posted, processed, summarized, and reported. It
maintains a complete audit trail of transactions and enables individual business units to view their financial information, while
parent companies can roll up all business subsidiaries and view the consolidated information. The software should support the
following functionality:- Chart of accounts structure- Ledger development & maintenance- Financial consolidation & reporting-
Journal entry- Journal voucher ledger transactions- Project cost ledger- Ledger controls- Multicurrency accounting & conversions-
On-line inquiry reporting- Financial statement reporting- Financial report writer- Variance analysis- Additional financial reporting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Payables schedules bill payments to suppliers and distributors, and keeps accurate information about owed money, due
dates, and available discounts. It provides functionality and integration to other areas such as customer service, purchasing,
inventory, and manufacturing control. The software should support the following functionality:- AP Company Policies &
Procedures- Suppliers/Voucher Master Data- Payment Controls- Invoice Processing & Aging Analysis- Payment Processing-
Journal Voucher Processing- AP Ledger Posting- Check Processing- AP Transactions & Controls- AP Reporting
Fixed Assets
Fixed Assets manages depreciation and other costs associated with tangible assets such as buildings, property and equipment.
The software should support the following functionality:- Fixed Assets Records- Asset Transactions- Asset Depreciation-
Depreciation Books- Revaluation & Interest Calculation- Tax Reporting
Cost Accounting
Cost Accounting analyzes corporate costs related to overhead, products and manufacturing orders. It provides a variety of costing
approaches such as standard, FIFO, LIFO, average, target, and activity-based costing (ABC). The software should support the
following functionality:- Cost Data- Cost Allocation Definitions- Cost Allocation Process- Cost Management- Cost & Sales Price
Calculation- Activity Based Costing (ABC)- Activity Based Cost Tracing & Tracking
Cash Management
Cash Management involves the capability of the system to record cash charges or deposits, recording of cash payments and
receipts, cash projection reporting, calculation of expected cash uses/sources, current cash availability, etc. Monitors and
analyzes cash holdings, financial deals and investment risks.
Budgeting
Budgeting involves budgetary controls, budget accounting, budget development, and budget allocation. The software should
provide sufficient tools to enable detailed budget development and analysis. Additional functionality should be available to
integrate with project management software applications either natively or with external interfaces.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable tracks payments due to a company from its customers. It contains tools to control and expedite the receipt
of money from the entry of a sales order to posting payments received. The software should support the following functionality:-
AR Company Policies & Procedures- Customers/Voucher Master Data- Bill Processing & Aging Analysis- Credit Management-
Cash/Payment Application, Receipt Processing- Journal Voucher Processing- AR Ledger Posting- Multicurrency accounting &
conversions- AR Transactions & Controls- AR Reporting
Financial Reporting
Financial Reporting enables robust analysis of company performance through delivered reports. These reports will allow
individual business units to view their financial information, while parent companies can roll up all business subsidiaries and view
the consolidated information. Additionally, solutions should provide user generated reporting tools that are easy to use and
provide sufficient depth of and access to the financial data to permit comprehensive analysis.
Project Accounting
Project Accounting monitors costs and work schedules on a project-by-project basis. It usually includes the following
sub-modules: project control, project analyzer, project budgeting, project timekeeping, project billings, contract management, and
workflow communicator.
Human Resources
Human Resources encompasses all the applications necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate managers and
individual employees. Modules will include Personnel Management, Benefit Management, Payroll Management, Employee Self Service,
Data Warehousing and Health & Safety.
2.1 Personnel Management
Personnel Management automates personnel processes including recruitment, personnel profile, organizational structure, career
development & training, reward management, job position & wage profiles, business travel and vacation allotments, etc. The
software should support the following functionality:- Recruitment Management- Personnel Information & Tracking- Organizational
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2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
software should support the following functionality:- Recruitment Management- Personnel Information & Tracking- Organizational
Structuring- Lob Position & Salary Profile- Career Development, Training & Performance Management- Compensation
Management- Budgeting & Cost Control- Government Compliance Reporting- Expenses Management- Union Information-
Discipline Actions & Grievances Tracking- Employment History/Personnel Reporting.
Benefits
Benefits administers a diverse range of benefit plans including health and medical, life and supplemental life insurance, accidental
death and dismemberment (AD&D), disability plans, flexible benefits, 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans, stock plans, retirement
plans and leave plans such as vacation and sick leave accruals. The software should support the following functionality:- Base
benefits- Employee benefit plan profile- Benefits administration- Pension administration
Payroll
Payroll handles accounting and preparation of checks related to employee salaries, wages and bonuses. The software should
support the following functionality:- Employee payroll profile- Earnings & Deductions- Eligibility Controls- User Balances- Tax
Deductions & Calculation- Payroll Calcualtion- Payroll & Payment Processing- Check Processing & Printing- Labor Distribution &
Accounting- Payroll & Regulatory Reporting- IRS Documentation- Security & Audit- Automated Timesheets.
Employee Self-Service
Employee Self-Service lets workers access their personal information and benefit allocations online to manage life events and
benefit selections without having to send forms to human resources. The software should also support benefit enrollment
programs and new hire initiation.
Data Warehousing
Data Warehousing simply defined, is a place for data, whereas data warehousing describes the process of defining, populating,
and using a data warehouse. Creating, populating, and querying a data warehouse typically carries an extremely high price tag,
but the return on investment can be substantial. For more information, see
A Definition of Data Warehousing
and
The Necessity of Data Warehousing
Health and Safety
Health and Safety provides the tools to administer compliance with the health and safety regulations, accident and injury reporting
and tracking of lost time by employee.
Manufacturing Management
Manufacturing Management encompasses a group of applications for planning production, taking orders, and delivering products to the
customer.
3.1 Product Costing
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
Criterion
Product Costing analyzes product costs related to overhead, labor, material and manufacturing costs. It provides a variety of
costing approaches such as standard, actual, average, etc.
Shop Floor Control
Shop Floor Control provides control and tracking of the status of production orders in the plant. It involves production orders
dispatching, capacity planning, resource allocation, production tracking & reporting, waste/reject tracking, etc.
Field Service and Repairs
Field Service and Repairs administers installed-base service agreements and checks contracts and warranties when customers
call for help.
Production Planning
Production Planning performs capacity planning and creates a daily/weekly/monthly production schedule for a company’s
manufacturing plants. It involves forecasting, production scheduling and material planning, etc.
Project Management
Project Management monitors costs and work schedules on a project-by-project basis. It usually includes the following
sub-modules: project control, project analyzer, project budgeting, project timekeeping, project billings, contract management, and
workflow communicator.
Product Data Management (PDM)
Product Data Management (PDM) provides the ability to integrate at the engineering level to ensure accurate updated product
information. It involves bills of materials & routings creation, engineering change management, etc. and provides a consolidated
view of the product.
Product/Item Configurator
Product/Item Configurator is a software tool that simplifies order entry by asking which options the customer needs, then applies
predefined rules to correctly configure the end product. The configurator then populates the attributes of the newly configured
item, tests for conflicts, and generates the appropriate bill of material, routing, and price based on rules and calculations. As
configurators have grown to include more sales, marketing, and financial functions, such as pricing, cost analysis, and order
status, the term "sales" configurator is being applied to more aptly describe their extended role. What began as a need to reduce
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4
5
6
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
status, the term "sales" configurator is being applied to more aptly describe their extended role. What began as a need to reduce
the amount of manual engineering design processes and verification of configuration accuracy regarding complex products has
exploded into a rich set of functions designed to better manage customer-supplier relations as well as streamline the sales cycle.
As a result, today’s "to-order" manufacturers have tools to determine much more than whether or not a configuration can be built.
They can control the entire order-management process. By solving possible manufacturing incompatibilities up-front during order
entry, and providing costing, pricing, and other sales analysis data, companies can make better decisions earlier, which
eliminates errors and speeds time-to-market.
Formulas/Recipes
Process Model (Formulas + Routings)
Process Batch Control and Reporting
Conformance Reporting
Process Manufacturing Costing
Material Management
Inventory Management
Inventory Management encompasses a group of applications for maintaining records of warehoused goods and processes movement of
products to, through and from warehouses.
4.1 On-line requirements
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
Processing requirements
Data requirements
Reporting and Interfacing requirements
Locations and Lot Control
Forecasting
Reservations and Allocations
Inventory Adjustments
Purchasing Management
Purchasing Management encompasses a group of applications that controls purchasing of raw materials needed to build products and
that manages inventory stocks. It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts, supplier tracking, goods receipt & payment, and
regulatory compliance analysis and reporting.
5.1 Vendor and Supplier Profile
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
5.11
5.12
Supplier Rating and Profile
Requisitions and Quotations
Purchase Orders
Prices and Discounts
Vendor Contracts and Agreements
Purchase Order Management
Procurement Reporting, online reporting capability
Repetitive Vendor Procurement
Procurement Receipts
On-line requirements
Reporting and Interfacing requirements
Quality Management
Quality Management encompasses applications for operational techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality control,
inspection plan creation and management, defective item control and processing and inspection procedure collection planning.
6.1 Defective/excess material return processing must update on-hand
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Criterion
7
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
6.18
6.19
6.20
6.21
6.22
6.23
6.24
6.25
6.26
6.27
6.28
6.29
Damaged material - corrective action, failure analysis available to vendor on-line
Inspection required indicator by supplier, by item
Pre-inspection receipts registered as "inventory on hold"
Online inquiry of inspection and MRB queue
Validation against automated inspection criteria
Inspection disposition with audit trail
Disposition delinquency report
Quantity rejected
Reject reason codes
Open rejections report
Non-conformance processing
Corrective action creation/tracking
Reject status: no disposition, awaiting vendor approval
Rework status: waiting for rework manufacturing order
Use as is status: awaiting QA variance memo
Return-to-vendor status: awaiting shipment
Overall supplier quality, survey data and letters
Online return-to-vendor
Customer return file: awaiting disposition
Automatic rescheduling of return-to-vendor items
Approved items substitution listing for each item
Approved vendor for each item number
Return note printing
Return-to-vendor debit memo printing
Recalculation of average cost
Quality data on-line
Requirements grouping using collection plans
Quality document linkage with product master within PDM
Sales Management
Sales Management encompasses a group of applications that automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of
the status of orders. It involves order entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. It also provides a basic functionality
for lead tracking, customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
7.1 On-line requirements
7.2
7.3
7.4
Reporting and Interfacing requirements
Available-to-Promise (ATP)
Automated available-to-promise (ATP) is achieved by giving order takers access to inventory and capacity information, and in
some cases even vendor information, so that they are able to commit to reliable delivery dates while the customer is still on the
phone.
Pricing and Discounting
Automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of the status of orders. It involves order entry, order tracing
and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. Also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking, customer information, quote
processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
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Criterion
8
7.5
7.6
Customer Service and Returned Goods Handling
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-Commerce Requirements
Ranges from simple, off-the-shelf contact management solutions to high-end interactive selling suites that combine sales,
marketing, and executive information tools. These include product configuration, quote and proposal management, and marketing
encyclopedias. Some systems extend functions to include complex pricing, promotions, commission plans, team selling, and
campaign management. Enterprise-level solutions installed at large companies with hundreds or even thousands of users have
capabilities for call center/help desks, field service, forecasting, and analysis.
Product Technology
This criterion defines the technical architecture of the product, and the technological environment in which the product can run
successfully. Sub-criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database
support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other five
evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance, on the product technology criterion. However, this
apparently lower importance is deceptive, because the product technology criterion usually houses the majority of the selecting
organization's mandatory criteria, which usually include server, client, protocol and database support, application scalability and other
architectural capabilities. The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of
potential vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection criteria.
During the process of product selection a great deal of attention is given to the functional capabilities of the software being evaluated.
While this aspect is obviously important, ignoring the technical mechanisms by which the software actually operates can be fatal to a
project (see Great Product: Too Bad The Architecture Doesn't Fit ).
For more information, also see Essential ERP - Its Underpinning Technology
8.1 Architecture
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
User Interface
Platforms
Application Tools
Workflow and Document Management
Reporting
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