by Soman
ERP implementation has entered its peak
season whereby involvement from Leopad team increased. New implementation
partner has revised the project schedule and maneuvering the project back to
the track. There will be no changes to planned ‘Go-Live’ date. New consultants
mobilized by implementation partner for Project, Human Resources and technical
support. They have started to conduct pre-study, prepare SDD and training.
Leopad project team has scheduled sessions continuously for relevant modules to
catch up the schedule.
Apart from Project and HR module, SDD
review also actively being carried out by super users. Process owners conducted
Internal reviews and inter-department discussions pertaining SDD & process
flows. Distribution module SDD was first SDD being approved by Steering
Committee (SC). The process owners with his team and other departments did
detailed discussions throughout month of September. Process owner presented the
SDD key elements to SC for approval. SC has approved Distribution SDD with some
Opportunities For Improvement (OFI) comments. Distribution SDD approval is one
of the important milestone that Leopad team has achieved. I would like to congratulate and thank all
involved in this SDD approval process.
Data gathering is one of the most integral
factors in successful ERP implementation. However, studies show that many
organizations have underestimated this task that led to the failure of
implementation. Data gathering and cleansing is important to ensure accurate
and complete master data is available for completing testing process. Without
complete master data, business process flow cannot be tested completely. Data
gathering and cleansing involves: -
- Convert data
- Collect new data
- Review all data input
- Clean-up data
Users cannot assume that 100% of the data
can be converted, as there may be outdated information in current system. Users
need to determine which information should be converted through an analysis of
current data. Users also need to identify new data need to collected and source
of the data. Implementation partner will provide a data collection template for
this purpose. Review and cleaning up data to be done by users in order to
ensure correct required data migrated to ERP environment.
Apart from data collection, many other
tasks to be done in coming months. Post ERP roles and responsibilities to be
discussed with entire Leopad management team. Application Solution Test
expected to be carried out in late October. Therefore, continuous support required
from entire team required in order to complete scheduled task on time.
Lets Make it Happen.
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