OPIM 5894 Advanced Project management JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion

• • • • • • • Team 3 Richard Buskey Vijay Gadigeppa Jonathan Koenig Daniel Mahzonni Prashant Mishra Jonathan Weiss

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion

Overview of the project

- Conversion from JD Edwards to Oracle Enterprise system - Dependent systems: Siebel, Leasing and other in-house applications – Customer Master – Contracts – Install Base

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Key Issues

Requirement Specifications Business Rules Meeting deadline due to expiration of the Maintenance Contract

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion • Requirement Specifications – Understanding the data structure of the source (JD Edwards) and target applications (Oracle ERP) – Project outsourced to the consulting company. Would work with the in-house SMEs in gathering the requirements.

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion • • Business Rules – Data Transformation rules to map the source data elements to the target – Transforming the current business processes to the new application Meeting deadline due to expiration of the Maintenance Contract – Deadline for the Oracle support expiration = March 2011 – Would end up paying additional fee in case of system failures – Loss of business for the dealer network – Limited time for detailed impact analysis.

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion Heat Map for the Tasks • • • Task 1 – Formatting Requirements Task 2 – Developing Business Rules Task 3 – Maintenance Contract Expiration

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion Cost and Time Reserves

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion • Mitigation Strategy – Increase consulting resources to meet the deadlines – Increase in-house SME involvement in the project – Freeze functional requirements from business to avoid scope creep – Increase the server availability at the dependent applications

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion • Implications of delaying the launch – On time to market issues • Unsupported platforms • Business impact to the dealers – Project cost issues • Over budget • Additional resources needed to complete the project • Opportunity Cost (Add resources from other projects) • Success of the project: 90%

JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion Q & A