Implementation
Change systems without losing a week of production
The risk is the fortnight when two systems disagree. A controlled cutover removes it.
How we keep production running
Not every one is the same size. Discovery and data assessment decide most of what follows.
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
Configuration
Sites, work centres, calendars, roles and permissions, numbering, forms and the contract review policy, set up to match how you work.
- 04
Structured data import
Loaded with a reject report rather than a silent partial success. Anything that will not import is listed, with the reason.
- 05
Role-based testing
The planner, buyer, stores, operator, quality and despatch each work through their own day on their own devices. Not a demonstration.
- 06
Training
By role, against your data. An operator needs ten minutes at a terminal; a planner needs longer.
- 07
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.
- 08
Controlled go-live
A planned date with a defined fallback. Everyone knows what happens if something is wrong on the morning.
- 09
Early-life support
Close contact through the first weeks, when the questions are about your factory rather than the software.
- 10
Ongoing review
Periodic review of how it is being used and what has changed in the business.
What sets your timetable
The timetable depends on the quality of your part and BOM data, 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. A figure quoted before discovery would not be reliable.
Next step
Start with how your factory runs now
The first conversation is discovery, not a demonstration. Bring a job that went wrong and we will follow it.
Keystone