Oracle Cloud ERP implementation
We configure Financials, SCM and HCM, move the data off whatever you run now, connect what's left with Oracle Integration Cloud, and stay through the first month-end — which is when an ERP tells you what it really thinks of your data.
What an ERP implementation actually involves
Most clients take all four. If you have a team already and only need the migration, take that one — we'd rather do a piece well than pad the scope.
Before the project starts
We map the processes you run today, decide which survive the move and which get changed, and put a date and a cost against each phase. Most of the risk in an ERP programme is decided here, months before anyone configures anything.
- Current process mapped, including the workarounds nobody documents
- Which modules go live in phase one, and which can wait
- A timeline built backwards from the cutover date
- Where this is likely to go wrong, written down early
- A cost you can take to a board
Configuration and rollout
Financials, Supply Chain and Human Capital Management, configured to the chart of accounts and the approval rules you actually use — plus the training, because an ERP nobody can operate is an expensive ledger.
- Oracle Financials: ledger, payables, receivables, fixed assets
- Supply Chain: procurement, inventory, order management
- Human Capital Management: core HR and payroll interfaces
- Training built around each team's daily tasks, not the module list
- A cutover plan, rehearsed before the weekend that counts
Data migration and integration
Getting years of records out of the old system, agreeing what comes across, and proving the balances still match afterwards. Then Oracle Integration Cloud connections to whatever you're keeping.
- Extract and profile legacy data before agreeing what moves
- Cleanse, map and dedupe; agree in writing what gets dropped
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) connections to third-party systems
- Trial loads — more than one — before the real one
- Balances reconciled against the old ledger after cutover
After go-live
Hypercare, typically 30-90 days, covering the first month-end on the new system. That period is when the things nobody thought of show up, so it's the part we don't shorten.
- "Hypercare" following go-live, typically 30-90 days
- The first month-end and quarter-end run with us on hand
- Performance tuning once real transaction volumes arrive
- User support and ticket resolution
- Documentation your own team can maintain without us
Four things we'll be straight with you about
ERP programmes fail slowly and in public. These are the habits that make that less likely, and each one costs us something.
We'll argue about the date early
ERP dates slip because someone agreed to one before the data was profiled. We'd rather have that argument in week two than in month nine, when it costs a quarter.
Fewer modules, sooner
A phase one that goes live beats a phase one that keeps growing. We'll push back on scope, including scope that would have been ours to bill.
The cutover is rehearsed
Trial loads and a dry-run cutover before the weekend that counts. The first time you do this should not be the time that matters.
The same people at month-end
Whoever configured your ledger is who picks up the phone when the first close goes sideways. No handoff to a support desk that wasn't in the room.
Not sure you need a whole implementation?
Plenty of Oracle complaints are configuration, not a project — an approval chain nobody can change, a report that takes two days to produce, a close that drags. Tell us the symptom and we'll tell you which one it is.
How the work runs
Four phases. The first two decide whether the last two go well, which is why we spend longer on them than clients expect.
- 01
Discovery
We sit with finance, procurement and HR separately, because each will describe a different version of the same process — and the differences are the project.
- 02
Plan
Modules, phases, dates and the cutover weekend, worked backwards from your financial calendar rather than forwards from today.
- 03
Build and migrate
Configuration, integrations, trial data loads and training, in cycles short enough that you can see it and object.
- 04
Go-live and after
Cutover, then Hypercare through the first month-end. Then ongoing support, 24/7 across the time zones you operate in.
Tell us where the ERP hurts
A close that takes two weeks, a migration that stalled halfway, or a decision about Oracle you haven't made yet. We'll tell you what we'd do and roughly what it costs.