QUIZ

Q1. Do you think “Historical Data”

is required to be uploaded into
ERP? Why or Why Not?

Q2. Write down the “table of

content” of Project Management
Plan of an ERP implementation
project?
TCO is an acronym for ‘Total Cost of Ownership’?

BPM is an acronym for Business Process

Management’?

IHP is an acronym for ‘Inventory Holding Period’?

ROI is an acronym for ‘Return on Investment’?

COA is an acronym for ‘Chart of Account’?

MRP is an acronym for “Material Requirement
Planning”?

ERP implementation is a routine task, not a

project?
 The Implementation Cycle:

• Data migration strategy:

• Master Data
• Transaction Data

• Go LIVE and cutover strategy

• Reports and Report Tracking
• Reports for UAT
• Reports for parallel run
• Reports for Go LIVE
 Data migration strategy
• Setups
• COA setup, AP voucher types, Cost Centres, Calendar
(Accounting periods), Sequences (Vno etc.), payterms

• Master Data
• Employees, Items, locations, Stores, Sales Persons,
hierarchy for workflow, workflow, suppliers, any type
related thing etc

• Transaction Data:
• Open transactions and Balances
• AR with age, AP with age, INV balances

• Closed transactions and History Data

• Past transactions available in legacy system
◦ Suppliers – Employee A/P
◦ Customers - Employee A/R
◦ Inventory on hand quantities

What else – You make a list? It

is your assignment…
 What to do in your project:

–List all business processes

–Create flow of processes

–List the processes required in addition

to the existing processes
 Factors - Ready for Go LIVE

– As is signed off
– To be signed off - Proposed solution for gaps are signed off
– Reports for data verification/reconcile are ready
– Product configured on production environment
– User access privilege document signed off and configured in
production environment
– Templates for opening data collection provided – study has
been made – training provided –
– Communication system tested – application access across org
– Cutover strategy finalized and signed off
– GO LIVE (Data Conversion ) plan signed off
– Data Extraction roles defined along with timelines
Go LIVE (Factors to be consider)

• UAT is signed off

• Users are trained
• System is available across org
(Monitoring system available)
• Setups are available
• Master Data is available
• Balances loaded and verified
• Reports available (daily, weekly, monthly,
reconciliation related)