Year-end ERP go-lives

As we approach the end of the year, companies are looking at going live with their ERP. But don't botch your implementation just to make the deadline — here's why.

Transcript: This is Shawn Windle with ERP Advisors Group and we're running into another interesting problem that I want to share with you real quickly here today. So this is kind of a usual time where companies are looking at going live before the end of the year. The concept here is "hey, let's get into the new system at the end of the year. So then in the New Year, we have the new system ready to get the entire year's worth of data in there. It makes a lot of sense, but there's a couple things that you have to think about. The first one is, don't muff the go-live. So even if you've got this plan to do end-of-year and and you know that you're not quite ready — meaning that the expectations that you set with the user, with the end users — that they're not really going to be able to do what you need them to do in the software — it's not worth it. Don't force the end of your go-live for that reason. And the second, other major important part, is data migration, right? Because I want all my data from the whole year in one system. Totally, that makes sense, but here's the key: it's more important to get to go live right to make sure that the code and the functionality that you promised is in place, and then you can always bring in next year's data into your new system. So it might be worth doing a February 1 or a March 1 go-live. You got a couple months of data, just bring it into your new system. Make sure that users are set. And I know there's audits, and I know there's taxes and everything else into the New Year, but listen, please get that first go-live right because you only get one chance with that. Thank you.

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