After you’ve chosen an ERP solution that most effectively and efficiently meets your needs, partnered with your consultant, and assembled your in-house implementation team, then it makes sense to determine your budget and schedule. Plus, it’s important to proactively create an organizational change management plan for each level of the business, informing teams how the ERP system will benefit them. The more carefully all of this is planned ahead of time, the more smoothly the implementation is likely to go.
Some implementation projects are handled in just one phase, while others are implemented in stages. If the latter is true for your company, then you need to create an implement-phase plan that will dovetail with business needs with the least amount of interruption.
Then, the ERP solution is integrated into your IT system, with clean, verified data being migrated to the solution. A significant amount of testing then takes place to ensure that all is correctly implemented; at the same time, you may be training select teams on using the solution.
Once testing is completed, the application can go live, with more testing taking place. Training continues to take place, as well as system evaluation.