Consider your payroll processor, your stock transfer agent,your foreign manufacturers, your employee benefits providers. You will need to contact every supplier and organization you exchange information with or rely on to make sure their computer fixes are compatible with yours, and yours with theirs. You will want to test the interfaces between your companies to make sure everything works. Financial institutions such as The Heritage Bank had their systems reprogrammed and tested by December 31, 1998. This is one deadline that is not negotiable.
Problem is the start of the process.
After that, you need to look at your business and assess your risks. Make your own Year 2000 Compliance Plan. Call your systems programmers for their advice. Be ready to make any necessary changes. These final months could be critical to your business' survival in the next millennium.