Requirement Analysis:

This Stage involves following:

a. Conducting workshops on joint requirement planning

b. Analyse results of workshop

c. Listing the functional needs

d. Documenting and confirming business needs

Output of Stage 2

Full document of functional and business requirements.

Stage 3 : Request for Information

This stage involves following:

a. Making a high level look at the condition.    

b. Gathering general information on different ERP solutions, which can be available.

c. Eliminating those ERP packages, which are completely irrelevant, insufficient, or inappropriate.

Follow-up of Stage 3

a. Developing the request for proposal RFP and releasing to the chosen list of 3-4 vendors, whose packages support most excellently to the business requirements.

b. Responding to the enquiries of the vendors after they attain RFP.

c. Evaluating vendors' response on RFP.

Output of Stage 3

a. A list (possibly 3-4) of ERP vendors to whom the RFP would be sent.

b. RFP documents.