Given the unique requirements, the consultants in the project team agreed to customize SAP R/3 to fit to MIT’s purposes mostly without argument. The consultants did not have any SAP implementation experience in higher education institutions before and emphasized their commitment to keep to the initial project launch deadline, especially the go-live schedule related to MIT’s new fiscal calendar. Since all data entered to the ERP system are influenced and stored in related modules across the system automatically, data migration to fill in certain period after the fiscal year becomes more difficult. Moreover, this can be explained from the consultant’s point of view that the more customization in the system the client has, the less responsibility for trouble-shooting they have.