Technical & business solution integration, migrations, roll-outs and upgrades covering:

• APS & ERP technical integration

• Reviews of the current technical landscape

• Design the 'to be' technical landscape

• Assess the non-functional requirements of your business or 3rd party IT provider in line with the Tool's needs

• Assess the data requirements mapping and delivery options such as flat file interfaces or database to database transfers, known as integrations

• Building the data integrations and the interface delivery options

• Using the 'to be' processes script and configure the tool and integrations

• System test the solution

• Impact assess the impact on the current technical landscape and agree support requirements

• Impact assess and plan the integration on the current Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) or other standard business activity

• Assess the people skills and experience and set a people skills rollout plan

• Ready the people, processes, and technology for the new world

• Managing internal and external collaboration

• Deployment of the solution

• Support the solution

From time to time it is necessary to relocate your APS or ERP tool, due to data center move or business re-locations, we have delivered projects in this area as wide ranging as physical server lift, shift and re-start, to rebuilding the application and all the supporting interfaces on new infrastructure in a new location.

Total APS has a tried and tested upgrade method used to manage solution upgrade roadmaps for your APS & ERP tools covering the major releases and the minor defect fix and patch bundle deployments. We tailor our approach to your needs but our typical APS upgrade approach is:

• Identify the client’s expectations / requirement for upgrade, project goals, and quality systems

• Identify the current systems set up with a database, software and batch job review

• Identify the technical environment with a hardware, operating systems and dependent systems review

• Map the project requirements and current environment to a suitable upgrade version and identify non-out of the box functionality / special business needs

• Map dependent systems impacts, e.g. new data feeds

• High level design to deliver solutions for non out-of-the-box functionality / special business needs and work-around

• Map upgrade needs to infrastructure capability

• Plan and deliver the project covering:
  • Project management, risk & issue management, technical change management, business change and operational delivery
  • Detailed design for the software package, dependent systems, Infrastructure, Operating system
  • Package deployment, development, licensing, integration, training and unit testing
  • Acceptance criteria, System, integration and business (user) testing
  • Upgrade Pilot / trial
  • Implementation and roll-out
  • Post go-live support, benefits realisation and project goal reviews.