The city of Stockton this month approved consulting contracts with Plante Moran to assess and plan for how to modernize or potentially replace the city's ERP system.
Stockton currently uses a SunGard HTE/NaviLine solution as an integrated ERP for financial, human resources and payroll, land management, and utility billing solutions in a system that's been in place since the 1980s, according to city documents.
Stockton would like better reporting capabilities and flow of information across the organization. The city has about 1,600 classified city employees.
"An ERP business need has been determined by the City that better financial data and improved capacity to support activity-based cost accounting is needed. The City is also seeking better integration and compatibility with other internal systems," according to a bid document released by Stockton last summer.
Under the scope of work, after a gap analysis is conducted Plante Moran will help determine if a "best of suite" or integrated solution best fits Stockton's needs.
Under the leadership of IT director Nabil Fares, Stockton has been upgrading core systems, including an enterprisewide move to Office 365 last fall.
"In my new role as the [city's] first IT director, my role is to utilize technology, which we are part of every place in the organization, the department, in which to introduce efficiencies, introduce opportunities to leverage technology to make the citizens' life easier and make the department budget thinner in terms of technology," Fares said in an interview with Techwire one year ago.
