It is much more complicated than that... ERP implementation has got at last 3 phases.
First: analysis. It can be one meeting or several days analisys depending on your customer user number, how many departments, how many proceses ... It's totally different implementing an ERP in a 5 people enterprise with 2 computers and 1 production machine, than in a 150 people corporation with 45 computers, 24X7 timesheet in 3 groups and 10 departments... You should have very clear the industry, the documents they use actually, who creates and who receives those document, how many users you have to teach, how many and what departments, if they wanna migrate data from another system or not, how they wanna start up with openERP... Are they writing all data? Are they migrating only master data such clients or products or the wanna have old files such orders, invoices, tickets in Open ERP? This is... you need an AS IS document where you have to explain your customer principal bussiness workflows and the most relevant things that will impact on the implementation cost in time and people. You have to prepare a very good quiz to have all the questions clear, and even if you do it very well you will note afterwards that you forgot so many things... After that you will write an TO BE document. You will analize your customer AS IS processes and you will rewrite all of then with OpenERP... You will see the processes that openERP can fill, or not... and the differences will be the processes you have to develop. So it can be very convenient to find first new modules, publication and so on, to minimice the development cost... After that you can create and present to your customer a Project plan, including time to develop new modules, time to teach to users, time to develop migrating processes, estimated Start up data. 2: Development modules and migrating data processes. 3: Teaching and tryning users. 4: Startup... Being consultant it's funny!!!! :D -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=28057#28057 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
