5 STAGES FOR AN EFFECTIVE ERP IMPLEMENTATION

Effective ERP implementation case study:

IDENTIFICATION

• Business objectives
• Stakeholders
• Project scope & finalize with stakeholders
• Complete project plan
• Identify all resources over time to create budget

PLANNING & CONFIGURATION

• Identify customization needs
• Design documentation
• System consultation configuration
• Develop test cases for business stakeholders
• Identify what data must be migrated
• Write migration script
• Complete a sample data migration and generate reports
• Receive approval from stakeholders
• Release to customers for acceptance in agile methodology

TESTING & TRAINING

• Identify end users
• Create timeline / schedule and define objectives
• Craft hands –on sessions
• Setup servers
• Deploy the application with all customizations
• Migrate data
• Include end-to-end testing with reports & interfaces
• Confront/reconcile any problems

PREPARATION

• Commit to a final deadline
• Reconciliation reports
• G0-live

POST GO-LIVE ACTION

• Offer assistance and continual training to users through period end closing
• Identify problems
• Fix, test and release again to end users
• Continual end user training
• Re-evaluate any customization from step 2 that did not get approval for future enhancement.