GLOVIA G2 » Implementation

ERP Implementation Methodology

CrescentOne has built a tremendous track record, over the last 50 years, of very successful ERP implementations.

Our ERP implementations have always followed a guiding principle to provide immediate value to the customer while also ensuring that we achieve the highest level of expectations.

Examples of these metrics are:

  • Meeting go-live objectives — on time and on budget
  • Deliver solution fit to customer requirements
  • Manage scope of the overall project, both macro and detail level
  • Minimizing risk
  • Delivering best-in-class business consultation
  • Delivering industry leading process improvements
  • Limit customization and attempt best use of package ERP implementation
  • Effectively empower the customer user community

All of these attributes lead to a major business benefit to our customers: the transfer of ownership of both the GLOVIA G2 system and the new and improved processes to our customer’s employees. Our objective is to provide a successful ERP implementation — however measured.

The GLOVIA G2 ERP system architecture is designed for scalability, easy implementation and rapid deployment. Our site-by-site ERP implementation allows a gradual evolution of information systems without requiring complete systems replacement, minimizing business disruption and controlling implementation costs.

We offer proven conversion procedures for a variety of legacy MRP, MRPII, & ERP systems, including MAN-MAN Classic, Mapics, and BPCS, among others.

The basis of CrescentOne ERP’s implementation services is built on a combination approach: a very strong 11-step implementation methodology coupled with utilization of customer resource and subject matter expertise.

The benefits of the CrescentOne ERP implementation methodology are:

  • Secures management involvement, governance and oversight
  • Controls project costs and schedules
  • Provides a high degree of project visibility and documentation
  • Provides a system and business process architecture and platform that will support future improvement initiatives
  • Limits risk

Implementation Phases of core GLOVIA G2

Phase 1: ERP Implementation Planning and Organization

  • Establish customer/CrescentOne project management process and team
  • Collate all background information and documentation
  • Confirm the business objectives for the project
  • Develop macro and micro plan for implementing GLOVIA G2
  • Develop plan for supporting technology infrastructure and deployment
  • Provide first level education to user and technical team members
  • Confirm Customer Business Unit representatives participation and involvement
  • Confirm CrescentOne Professional Services staffing and plans

Phase 2: Hardware and Technology Infrastructure

  • Acquire necessary hardware & network required
  • Test and QA user response time and network loading
  • Establish support model

Phase 3: GLOVIA G2 Solution Definition to Requirements

  • Project team attends GLOVIA G2 education and training sessions
  • Team members practice with GLOVIA G2 and develop internal customer knowledge and skills
  • Team designs, develops and refines new business processes where required
  • Customization requirements are identified for development
  • Decisions and conversion definitions for data mapping are provided
  • Business flows and desktop procedures prepared, validated and documented for use in later project phases
  • Expose solution to the extended user community

Phase 4: Data Migration

  • Map legacy system(s) data to GLOVIA G2 data schema
  • Use the GLOVIA G2 application EIF module and application adaptors to load programs or prepare custom programs
  • Prepare one-time programs to extract and format legacy data for the GLOVIA G2 load programs
  • Prepare one-time data load and field initialization programs, including all required parameters
  • Identify old, inaccurate, obsolete legacy data to be improved or eliminated before conversion
  • Assign teams to cleanse data

Phase 5: Customization & Interfaces

  • Customization requirements: special forms, custom reports, interfaces and customization are developed
  • Provide technical programming skills to tailor the GLOVIA G2 application software to meet unique customer requirements
  • Design and write specifications for customizations
  • Make changes to programs following customer change control procedures
  • Execute unit tests and QA scripts and correct as necessary
  • Provide ongoing support during conference room pilot and integration test phases

Phase 6: Conference Room Pilot

  • Test, demonstrate and validate the GLOVIA G2 ERP solution
  • Test; verify all setups, data migrations, processes and customizations
  • Prove the GLOVIA G2 ERP solution meets the business requirements
  • Resolve all issues, make necessary corrections before continuing
  • Repeat the conference room pilot, if warranted, to prove the changes and the total solution
  • Final Customer Executive decision for go-live phases

Phase 7: Integration Test

  • Conduct an integration test as a “dress rehearsal” for go-live
  • Validate all solution deliverables
  • Assure all elements required to execute the conversion and loads system are in place and available
  • Select and train an extended user team to conduct the final testing
  • Validate that GLOVIA G2 fits the business requirements and can be used to run the business
  • Make any required last minute, minor changes
  • Confirm the go-live date

Phase 8: Readiness Activity

  • Project team and the business prepare for the go-live
  • Final conversion and startup schedules are refined
  • Changes in user procedures and documents for training are completed
  • Deliver training to the extended user community
  • Dates and schedule for cutover and implementation are communicated throughout the organization

Phase 9: Conversion and Cut-Over

  • A production environment for new system is initialized
  • All data is converted and loaded into GLOVIA G2
  • The team executes the detail conversion schedule with all validation steps to assure complete and correct data is loaded
  • Customer does final month-end close on legacy system
  • Final infrastructure changes are made
  • Legacy system(s) is restricted to inquiry only

Phase 10: Go-Live Support

  • When conversion is complete the new system is ready for production use
  • User, IT and CrescentOne support teams provide round-the-clock on-site support for the new system
  • Any issues are logged and resolved as reported
  • For the first weeks, the user, IT and CrescentOne team support the startup
  • Help desk receives calls, resolves as many as they can; remainder is given to project team members to resolve on a priority basis
  • Support continues through the next ‘x’ months’ end close cycles-where ‘x’ is to be mutually agreed

Phase 11: Post-Implementation Audit

  • Evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the GLOVIA G2 ERP solution
  • Review the operational effectiveness of the system as implemented
  • Identify problems, performance or process issues
  • Identify what is working well
  • Review opportunities to further improve effectiveness with the users
  • Eliminate short-term problems and obstacles
  • Present a plan of longer term corrective actions and improvements — if required

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