Overview
What this challenge is about.
Compare two ERPs for an organic retailer, recommend one, plan a six-month migration, and build a risk matrix. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
VerdeVida is a privately held organic grocery and prepared-foods chain operating 12 retail stores plus one central commissary kitchen in the Mexico City metropolitan area, in the mid-sized specialty-retail band, with plans to reach 30 stores within three years. Rapid expansion has left finance, inventory, and human resources running on disconnected legacy point-of-sale and spreadsheet-based tools that no longer reconcile cleanly across locations.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Select the right enterprise resource planning platform and plan its migration so that finance, inventory, and human resources operate as one system that can scale with VerdeVida's growth.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate stated business needs and constraints into ERP selection criteria
- Evaluate competing enterprise platforms objectively on cost, fit, and scalability
- Sequence a phased system migration that minimizes operational disruption
- Identify migration risks and design proportionate mitigations
- Design a change-management and training approach sized to an organization's workforce
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Erp Evaluation
Apply erp evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Change Management
Plan and guide organizational transitions to achieve lasting adoption.
- It Strategy
Apply it strategy to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Requirements Analysis
Apply requirements analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Risk Assessment
Apply risk assessment to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
ERP Consultant
This challenge mirrors the core consulting cycle of scoping needs, scoring vendors, and recommending a platform. It builds the judgment ERP consultants use daily to match enterprise software to a client's real constraints rather than to feature lists.
This challenge sharpens
- erp-evaluation
- requirements-analysis
- it-strategy
Business Systems Analyst
Analysts translate messy business needs into structured selection criteria and assess delivery risk. Comparing platforms against documented requirements and sizing data-migration risk is exactly the analytical work this role performs before any system change.
This challenge sharpens
- requirements-analysis
- erp-evaluation
- risk-assessment
Change Management Specialist
Designing a training and adoption roadmap for 200 employees across distinct role groups, and planning to minimize disruption, develops the workforce-transition planning skills central to leading organizational change during technology rollouts.
This challenge sharpens
- change-management
- it-strategy
- risk-assessment