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Scott Bader Upgrade from 12.4 Java to 10.1

Scott Bader Upgrade from 12.4 Java to 10.1. “It Wasn’t Pretty But it Worked!” (A story of lists). Scott Bader’s One Minute History. Marine Automotive Wind Energy Land Transport Decorative Casting Bathroom Pipes. Composites and Adhesives Key Markets. Graphic Arts Flexible Packaging

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Scott Bader Upgrade from 12.4 Java to 10.1

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  1. Scott BaderUpgrade from 12.4 Java to 10.1 “It Wasn’t Pretty But it Worked!” (A story of lists)

  2. Scott Bader’s One Minute History

  3. Marine Automotive Wind Energy Land Transport Decorative Casting Bathroom Pipes Composites and Adhesives Key Markets

  4. Graphic Arts Flexible Packaging Industrial Coatings Building and Decoration Textiles Speciality Polymers Key Markets

  5. Production and R&D Locations FRANCE Amiens Capacity 35,000T pa Employees: 90 HEADQUARTERS ENGLAND Wollaston Capacity 45,000T pa Employees: 250 CROATIA Zagreb Capacity 20,000T pa Employees: 63 CANADA Drummondville, Québec Employees: 22 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Dubai Capacity 40,000T pa Employees: 75 USA Stow, Ohio Capacity Toll Manufacturing Employees: 8 ASIA PACIFIC Shanghai, China Employees: 5 INDIAMumbai, India DISTRIBUTION EIRE/SWEDEN /CZECH REPUBLIC / SPAIN Employees: 20 SOUTH AFRICA Hammarsdale Capacity 9,000T pa Employees: 75 Scott Bader Group Turnover in 2012 was €225m

  6. Project Organisation

  7. Technical upgrade Upgraded systems such as MEC, LWM etc prior to this project to compatible version. Reduce number of Modifications Big bang – all sites simultaneously Business Process Register Test Script List Test Scripts End to End Monitoring Progress Logging Issues Prevent Scope creep! Approach to Upgrade

  8. Our experience of data migration by Infor team very good, would recommend highly. However, beware of migration of modified tables and simulation environment. Resolved but not until final go-live migration, ensure these are discussed at the beginning. Keep track of issues and data changes on tables from the beginning, start creating protected table list. Partial protection of table not always possible. (CYSTAB and CYSPAR) Data Migration

  9. Project Plan

  10. LSO Personalisation have simplified the screens and made them much more user friendly. No need to memorise codes! We have only done Globally at this point. Hyperlinks speeded up movement between screens. Lots of potential for future. Quick Note – simple and useful. Infor Project Manager – added value. Role based security looks good, but not done yet. Devil is in the detail, especially if combined with personalisaton. possibility for horrendous complexity. Found functionality that we already had, but didn’t know we had! Eg Date logging on CO’s. What’s Good

  11. VAT – major functionality and reporting changes. Retrieval logic changed. On-line simulation of VAT report – like this! Sort Orders and Views now linked, needed to create a lot of views! Functionality “Improvements” which weren’t! Supply chain order – needs to have own order type DO charges – only works if both sites are Standard costed and cannot edit amount on the order. Change of costing logic for fixed time operations, no longer uses MMS002 order qty MMS175 / 7 if pick list printed does not allow partial stock qty to be moved. BEWARE if using LWM. LSO related issues. Screen handling cumbersome, and much less data displaying on screens. Keeping to scope Users not checking documents thoroughly enough, a lot of steamfile changes meant changes to documents. Homework syndrome – with all the best intentions homework sometimes done on Monday at breakfast! Main Issues

  12. “No fancy PowerPoint, just action lists and plans” Business Process Review - all process group wide Test Script list with all major variants Test Scripts – end to end including finance Dashboard to Monitor Go-LivePlan So Why “Wasn’t it Pretty”?

  13. Went live 1hr ahead of schedule! Significantly under budget having used around 50% of the Infor consultancy hours in SOW. Our Process Owners knowledge reinvigorated, as is their enthusiasm. Have used some of new functionality, in particular Personalisation. Outcome “But it Worked!”

  14. M3 Upgrade Final piece of Advice GET A GREAT TEAM!

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