The case studies show how much ERP system implementation can impact an organization. After Release 1 that replaced the central financial systems to the ERP system, MIT conducted five rollout stages – concept workshop, analysis, build, operational training, and rollout for Release 2 to extend the ERP system to DLCs. Since MIT consists of autonomous DLCs and has a diffuse structure, MIT emphasized to get commitment from DLCs. By convening the concept workshop, MIT collected attention from key departmental personnel and decision makers and delivered detailed training of SAP concepts and process
Table 5–3. ERP Readiness Comparison, MIT and ENGCO
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redesign concepts. It was a great help to get a sense of generic solutions and models for possible use for DLCs in advance to implement new system. At the same time, MIT also had a pilot project and used phased rollout for “go-live”, and thus DLCs could prepare the new big wave in advance.