Phases of ERP Implementation, ERP Processes and Activities & their Importance

ERP Implementation Project Plan, ERP Processes and Activities & their Importance:

Phases of ERP Implementation under a good ERP Implementation Process and critical steps of an effective ERP Implementation Plan

The ERP Implementation Methodology defines the set of activities that should be conducted in phases. These phases provide quality and control checkpoints to coordinate project activities that have a common goal. During a project phase, your project team will simultaneously be executing tasks from several processes. The tasks against each phase are organized into processes. Each process represents a related set of objectives, resource skill requirements, inputs, and deliverable outputs. Given below are illustrative phases and the corresponding Processes under each phase that are generally used in any ERP Implementation:

Key ERP Implementation Phases:

• Project Definition
• Requirements Gathering or AS IS Study
• Solution Design or TO BE STUDY
• Build and Testing
• Production Go Live and Rollouts 

Above phases cover the following activities during the ERP Implementation Life-cycle:

• Project Initiation
• Core Business Process Analysis
• Conference Room Pilot & Ice Breaking
• Customization Design / Build
• Interface / Conversion Design/ Build
• System Integration Testing
• Training
• User Acceptance support
• Production Go-Live
• Roll Out
• Project Management
• System Administration
• Change Management