Tooling for the future

Answerthink announces major enhancements to its Best Practices Implementation (BPI) knowledge repository. The company describes BPI as a comprehensive toolset designed to enhance business performance and ROI from enterprisewide transformation initiatives by integrating best practices and performance metrics from The Hackett Group, a business process advisory firm.

Answerthink reports its BPI knowledge repository contains ERP software configuration guides, best-practice process flows, detailed best-practice descriptions and other tools and content that enable Answerthink to directly correlate proven best practices, derived from the world’s most successful companies, to configuration decisions in the implementation of leading applications from Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and others. Further, it says, BPI details the benefits, implementation risks and key technology enablers associated with the adoption of individual best practices.

The BPI enhancements expand its scope of Hackett-certified practices in finance, IT, HR, procurement and other operations areas. End-to-end process designs have been added in procure-to-pay, order-to-cash and planning and performance management. The flexibility of BPI has significantly increased, claims Answerthink, with a new data structure that enables more sophisticated searches, including searches keyed to specific Hackett process taxonomy elements, best practice themes and the applicability of best practices to specific industries. Finally, Answerthink says, BPI has been redesigned to enable extending access of certain content directly to clients.