A few of the cost savings from the federal government’s GovERP scale-back are to be invested examining brand-new shared services designs.
At the end of November, financing minister Katy Gallagher revealed modifications to the SAP-based GovERP job.
In the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) budget plan upgrade [pdf], the federal government described where a few of the cost savings from GovERP would be invested.
An overall of $18.3 million arising from the “reprioritisation” of GovERP financing will be invested “to support a brand-new technique to Australian Civil service Business Resource Preparation (ERP)”.
Gallagher’s November statement stated smaller sized federal government entities would now be enabled to make their own options of ERP, instead of needing to standardise to GovERP.
That will be supported by $5.2 million over the next 2 years, to assist smaller sized entities “evaluate their ERP uplift requirements”.
There will likewise be $1.1 million for the Department of Financing to perform “an independent evaluation of reuse chances from the financial investment in GovERP”.
The bulk of the costs, nevertheless, will remain in $12 million to preserve the Service Shipment Workplace ERP environment to the 15 entities that utilize it.