Klamath County to enter negotiations for new ERP; finance staff recommend vendor B

Klamath County commissioners agreed April 1 to direct staff to begin negotiations with “vendor B” for a new enterprise resource planning finance and human resources system after staff presented evaluation and funding information.

County financial analyst Susan Alexander presented the results of a months-long RFP process and concluded the selection committee recommended vendor B. “The committee's recommendation is to go with vendor B … with an 18 month implementation budget of $662,388.88, and that is before negotiation,” Alexander said.

Why it matters: County staff said the current system requires substantial manual work and creates reporting and security limitations. Commissioners were told the chosen system would reduce duplicated data entry and could yield the equivalent of roughly one full-time employee in savings when implementation costs are amortized, with possible additional savings over…