Klaus Petersen, Solar Group

Turn a disastrous ERP implementation into a successful one using Lean

Company-wide ERP implementations are quite complicated, and unfortunately, they often turn into nightmares: long delays, cost overruns, business disruption, all this causing great damage to the company and the customers. The European sourcing and service providing company Solar started they own ERP implementation 4 years ago. After chaotic beginnings, they decided to capitalize on the lessons learned from their prior 5-year Lean journey to ensure a smooth, quality and customer-focused deployment of the new ERP system throughout the company. Come hear my story about how we not only avoided a major disaster, but how we carried out a very successful ERP deployment from which our company came out much stronger in terms of performance and leadership.

Biography: Klaus Lyck Petersen is the group process manager for Solar. Klaus is an innovative leader with a high drive working with an international team operating in the 13 subsidiaries of the group. He has a been implementing Lean for over 11 years in various companies, focusing on developing people, managers, concepts all under the Lean thinking philosophy. He has led Solar's Lean journey for over 7 years carrying out a complete transformation of the management system and way of doing business. In 2010 the company won the Productivity award for the best Lean program in Scandinavia.