Manufacturing CPM Budgeting: 10-Wk Implementation

Walkerscott

A guided framework combining discovery workshops to analyze planning process at your manufacturing company followed by the implementation of a CPM solution based around your organizational processes

Walkerscott will engage the finance team (and other stakeholders) over a 10-week period to deliver a custom-built CPM solution on Azure and ensure user adoption to drive successful outcomes. The high-level agenda is as follows:

Agenda/Topics

Weeks 1-3 - Discovery Phase

  • Workshops with finance team members to map and analyze planning and forecasting process
  • Workshops with IT team stakeholders to understand existing ERP solution, if any, other source systems and expected technical + user setup

Weeks 4-8 - Implementation Phase

  • Set up and testing of underlying solution infrastructure - the Azure data platform
  • Set up, deployment and testing of all services to enable solution - Kepion, Web, AS, SQL
  • Solution development and testing

Weeks 9-10 - Training & Go-Live Phase

  • UAT, training and user adoption workshops using UAT environment to ensure users are comfortable with using the tool
  • Deployment of production environment and go-live management and post go-live support

Deliverables

Weeks 1-3 - Discovery Phase

  • Planning and forecasting process mapping documents
  • Azure infrastructure design and pricing analysis documents
  • Solution design document with mapping of process to Kepion features
  • User setup and licensing document
  • Updated SoW for Implementation Phase based on detailed requirements

Weeks 4-8 - Implementation Phase

  • Deployed Azure solution infrastructure
  • Configured and deployed Kepion solution
  • Configured and deployed data load packages into Kepion solution
  • Signed off test plan documents

Weeks 9-10 - Training & Go-Live Phase

  • User setup and signed off UAT plan documents
  • Configured and deployed data load packages into Kepion solution on the production environment
  • Go-live management and post Go-Live support documentation
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