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Large scale customer data migration during ERP platform integration program

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The Challenge

In 2020, our client initiated a program to integrate two separate ERP ecosystems into one GBS platform based on MDG and S4/HANA. The program required a new approach to migrating the customer’s data, on a scale that the organization had never done before.

Problems to solve

  • Design and implementation: Designed and implemented a large-scale data migration approach aligned with GBP methodology
  • Master data cleansing and merging: Designed and implemented customer master data cleansing, matching, and merging mechanisms to create a common set of master data across a diverse organization
  • Minimize disruption: Minimize disruption to business operations during the migration process

The solution

Hands-on expertise to design, implement and execute complex data transformation processes across multiple elements of commercial ecosystem

  1. Robust data cleansing and enrichment
  2. Customized de-duplication and decision engines
  3. Automation of key data-related processes:
    • Extraction and transformation
    • Customer and product cross-reference
    • Validation on every step of migration process
    • Enrichment and cleansing
    • Customer creations, including API-based technology
  4. P2P and E2E testing and validation
  5. Data lineage and process documentation
  6. Hypercare support
  7. Managing and operationalizing of critical activities as a backfill of key customer’s personnel

Results

  • Re-usable and customizable processes and workflows covering all aspects of master data migration in accordance with strict GBS requirements
  • Key migration milestone data validations shortened to single days
  • Comprehensive data flow monitoring solutions allow maintaining high data quality in time
  • Completed and verified documentation of key data flow
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