Implementation
MRP Implementation: A Controlled Transition To Keystone
Structured discovery, data preparation, role-based validation and a planned cutover protect production throughout the change.
A Practical Implementation Sequence
Discovery and data assessment determine the scope, timetable and level of support required.
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Discovery and current-process mapping
We follow a job through your factory as it runs today — who raises what, where the paperwork lives, which spreadsheet is the real one. Most of the scope gets decided here.
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Data assessment
We look at what your customers, suppliers, parts, bills, routings, stock and open orders actually contain. Data quality sets the timetable more than anything else does.
- 3.
Configuration
Sites, work centres, calendars, roles and permissions, numbering, forms and the contract review policy, set up to match how you work.
- 4.
Structured data import
Loaded with a reject report rather than a silent partial success. Anything that will not import is listed, with the reason.
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Role-based validation
The planner, buyer, stores, operator, quality and despatch teams each work through their own processes on the devices they will use.
- 6.
Training
By role, against your data. Training is tailored to each role and the tasks they need to complete.
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Opening stock and open orders
Stock counted and agreed, open sales and purchase orders and work in progress brought across and reconciled. Signed off before go-live rather than after.
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Controlled go-live
A planned date with a defined fallback. Everyone knows what happens if something is wrong on the morning.
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Early-life support
Close contact through the first weeks, when the questions are about your factory rather than the software.
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Ongoing review
Periodic review of how it is being used and what has changed in the business.
- 1DiscoveryOne job followed through the factory as it runs today
- 2Data assessmentWhat your parts, bills, routings and stock actually contain
- 3ConfigurationSites, work centres, calendars, roles, numbering and forms
- 4ImportLoaded with a reject report, not a silent partial success
- 5ValidationEach team works its own process on the devices it will use
- 6TrainingBy role, against your own data
- 7Opening balancesStock, open orders and work in progress agreed
- 8Go-livePlanned cutover with support through the first weeks
A gate: work stops here until it is signed off
The sequence on this page, drawn. Data quality sets the timetable more than anything else, and opening balances are signed off before cutover rather than after.
What Sets Your Timetable
The timetable depends on the quality of your part records and material lists, how much history has to be migrated, whether there are integrations, how many sites are involved, and how complex the manufacturing is.
After discovery you get a scope and a timetable for your factory. Discovery provides the basis for an agreed scope, timetable and quotation.
Start With A Discovery Conversation
Bring an example order or job that illustrates the problems you want the new system to solve.