ERP Implementation Plan for ABC's Expansion into the Canadian Market

About ABC's expansion into the Canadian market

ABC was founded in 1999. Since then, we managed a successful market entry in July and our growth continues constantly from day to day ever since. As of now ABC is available in Germany, France and Netherlands with new markets being launched continuously. ABC is distributed over our own website, a dedicated Amazon seller program and several A-List food and Sports retailers. Our internationalization plan focuses on building a digital first brand and push our own shop first, followed by selling over the leading local marketplace and after 12-18 months moving into the offline retail world. 

Since the beginning of the year 1999 ABC grew from a handful of people to over 75 people by the end of 2000 in the areas of sales, marketing (influencer marketing, PR, performance marketing, creative team, eCommerce, analytics, etc.), Product and Technology, Supply Chain, IT, HR, and Finance. 

We are the only scent-based taste company worldwide. Our product is not only brand new, but also unique. We are expanding our product all over Europe currently and will open the market in the CANADA in the summer of 2002. We will need to grow the operations (Logistics, Supply Chain) and finance processes and the organization according to the growth of the company. In this we need to ensure a smart and lean setup in the process and structure. 

Moving goods between continents in an extremely short time, in the least time-consuming operational way and the lowest cost, is what we do every day and aim to continuously improve. Our business has grown so fast, that we do not ship mere boxes, but only containerloads on all possible means of transportation in the best possible timelines from Asia to Europe and CANADA. We currently have stock locations in Germany, France, and the UK where all goods are delivered to and will open two new warehouses in CANADA. We sell already all over Europe to our D2C customers, with Germany still being our biggest country. We source mainly from Asia and will move multiple containers in 2002 to CANADA and send over 1,0 Million Packages. Our product weighs mere 800g, having about 100 SKUs to source and deliver. We are growing fast in all directions from Portfolio to stock- and sourcing locations. We need to expand our ERP Landscape implementing a new instance in CANADA within the cloud on AWS in phases over the period of 6 months. 

The goal of this role is: To forecast, plan, control and manage resources such as capital, personnel, operating resources, material and information and communication technology in the sense of the corporate purpose in a timely and needs-based manner. 

Currently we established the following roles within the ERP organization, reporting to the Head of ERP: 

1.Product Owner: Solution Architect and coordination of ERP internal development, features, roadmap, and external service partners 

2.ERP Support Manager: coordination of ERP internal development and external service partners 

3.Business Analyst: supports seamless automation of all ERP processes 

1. Please sketch out a high-level project plan of the two objectives below, including stakeholder management and requirements for CANADA ERP implementation of Accounting, Sales, Purchasing and Inventory within the ERP system. How do you report your progress? How do you make sure that all requirements are included? 

1.Finance and accounting setups 

2.Purchasing and Inventory setups including 3PL integration 

3.Sales (Order Management) setups including e-commerce integration 

Please take into consideration: 
a.Your stakeholders are Web Shop, Customer Service, Finance, Logistics, Product, Carrier, B2B, B2C 

b.Your supporters are external/internal developers and business analysts 

c.Operating systems: Odoo, Shopify, Amazon, WMS (Warehouse Management System) via 3PL