Implementation

1. Installation
In the first phase the tools needed for the migration project will be installed. These will be the easybaan company, the data migration tools and the Report Tuner.

2. Basic Migration
In this first step, a first easybaan migration is deployed to provide a modeling environment for later project phases. Tyco data is migrated into an easybaan company in ERP LN. This data will be the logistics and financial tables, customer data, supplier data, addresses, items, bills of material and warehouses. After this step has been completed successfully an environment is available for setting up the Business Case.

3. Fundamental Training
During this step the project team of key users will get an overview of the new ERP LN system. This will cover the handling and navigation in the system and the functioning of the new modules.

4. LN Training
One of the most important steps in the entire project is the business case study in ERP LN. Therefore, the project team of key users must become skilled and experienced users of ERP LN. In order for the users to get to that stage an intensive training of the new and reengineered processes must take place in order to gain the maximum yield of the capabilities and the potential from the business case. The LN training in this early phase of the project is performed with a data set in the easybaan company in ERP LN.

We will provide a case study by using the same packages and modules that are used in BAAN IV today. After every chapter, we handout training materials that enable the users to practice until the consultants arrive the next time to start with the business case.

5. Business Case
In this phase, we set up a case study where the important and specific cases of Tyco will be simulated in a reduced case study. From our experience, it is not needed to work with 6.000 suppliers to create a model to simulate the Tyco business. Most likely, the different cases can be simulated with 6 different suppliers. Or a construction model will not necessarily have to have 10.000 Elements. It is sufficient to define a model with 100 Elements. All the business cases that are important to Tyco should be modeled within this phase. As a result, the processes and data definition is created for the full migration run during this phase.

After completing this step, the project team should have a clear picture of an optimal ERP solution. As soon all requirements are known and agreed upon, the requirements for data cleaning and data migration from Baan IV can be defined.

6. Process Definition
During this phase all processes will be recorded that Tyco will execute in ERP LN resulting in a document that describes how Tyco will use ERP LN in the future.

7. Data Definition
Based on the previous phase it will become clear how the data will look like at the final migration. Hence, the process definition and the data definition are the requirements for finalizing the easybaan migration. If needed, a chapter can be added to take care of the data before migrating the data to ERP LN.

8. Configuring the easybaan migration
Depending on the prior phases, the easybaan migration will be changed to be compatible with the Tyco requirements. Improvements of the business processes and the data can be included in the migration process and they have to be implemented in the easybaan migration (next phase). In this phase, organizational changes, data cleaning and reorganization will be handled if needed.

9. easybaan Migration
This phase covers the final migration of the Baan IV data to ERP LN. In the previous project stages, the pre-requisites of a successful migration should have been set. Integrity checks and validation of the processes take place during the migration iterations until the data is transferred completely. Once the migration has been completed, the solution is handed over to Tyco to be checked if it meets the cutomers requirements. All issues that come up while testing are entered in a Delta list. These issues trigger improvements in the easybaan migration tools and these improvements will be available after the next migration run.

10. Implementation Consulting & End User Training
Now that the complete data set has been delivered to Tyco, the team of key users can execute all business processes in ERP LN and make sure all processes are validated.

This phase of the project will bring the new ERP LN solution to the users and so training of the end users will take place.

At the same time there will still be the possibility to modify some of the processes. Issues that come up are then not data migration related.

11. Go Live support
During the Go Live period all issues will be handled that come up to support the users. This will be for application and data related issues.