Time to complete MAS90 Implementation

[rick62]

Hi All,
This is a general question. I am sorry if I am not supposed to ask this question here.

Our company management would like to know in general, how many months it takes to complete a project with MAS90 Implementation.

Our company is a Inventory based company with approximately 12Mi turnover, with 5000 Unique Items. We were using Peachtree for the last 6-7 years and the data was manipulated by many persons and naturally requires lot of editing the data for Master files.

Can someone give approximate time takes for Master Lists Import and Transactins import. We are thinking of importing all the transactions from January 1st 2004.

Thanks.
Rick

 

[mas90guru]

About 2 months start to finish including training and forms and import of data.

This is HEAVILY dependent on the staff, their time availability.

Do not import historical transactions - bring in the open payables, receivables, etc...

The reason I never do historical is it is easier and chaper to leave them on the old system for a year for lookups. Most people don't even bother looking at them that long.



Regards,

Wayne Schulz
Schulz Consulting, LLC

http://www.s-consult.com

 

[masadmin]

Rick, after doing a couple of dozen M90 implementations, the answer is a bit more obscure. If you are going to do this internally, without any help, figure a bare minimum of 3 months to bring your entire operation on-line and converted. But this assumes a pretty vanilla implementation, and also that you and your staff are ready for this, with lots of spare time.

We also haven't talked about exactly what you are doing with Peachtree. Distribution, obviously, but what about Payroll? Are you managing any light manufacturing? Are you anticipating changes in your future? Do you need an automated shipping interface? All of these common issues can make large differences in how long it takes to get going.

On the other hand, you could contract extensive implementation services. Design, planning and scheduling take up the first week, masterfile conversion could be done in the 2nd week, training could take place on a dummy company for two weeks, and at the end of 4 weeks you could schedule a "go-live" date. And know what you are doing. And be comfortable that it is going to work.

In the end, its all about planning, and training. Give yourself a training window that has some flexibility. If you are going to do a Payroll switch in mid-year, it is strongly recommended you plan for quarter-end. And like Wayne says, don't import transaction history. The manuals have a detailed conversion guide. Read them, understand them, follow them if you are going to do this internally. It just takes a bit longer.

 

[rick62]

Thanks a lot for both of you for giving us an idea which makes our management to plan ahead. Your comments are quite useful for us. I appreciate your help.

-Rick