TROPOS Quickstart Plus Implementation Methodology

The implementation of a new business system is a significant undertaking and time of change for your business. You need the assurance that the implementation project will deliver the required business benefits, within the required timescale and budget, whilst minimising the risks to your business. The stakes are too high to gamble.

Quickstart Plus is SSI's proven implementation methodology which has been specifically designed for the implementation of TROPOS in our target markets. It has been developed from over 25 years experience of the implementation of mission critical business systems for the industrial sector. Supported by pre-defined implementation service packages and product templates, Quickstart Plus is delivered by a dedicated SSI Implementation Team, which includes Project Managers, Business, Solution and Technical Consultants, who will work with you to achieve your business goals.

Importantly Quickstart Plus encompasses market specific expertise and is flexible in addressing your requirements. Whether it is the need to replace an unsupported legacy system, gain control of a fast growing business through additional management information or the need to achieve market leading lead times, costs and levels of customer service, Quickstart will keep your project focused on the business priorities.

Quickstart Plus provides a formal process, and the defined project activities, against which you can choose the level at which you complement your teams skills and resources with those from SSI. You can choose to become 'self sufficient' in the TROPOS toolkits to extend your TROPOS solution, alternatively you can 'outsource' the day to day management of your system and any required solution configuration and optimisation to SSI.

Quickstart Plus is built upon the following common factors for success:

• SSI and our customers working in Partnership
• Management Commitment to defined project resourcing and decision making
• Clear project Ownership with defined roles and responsibilities
• Tight Project Control with a visible and transparent plan and budget
• Adoption of a pragmatic and professional Risk Management approach

Quickstart Plus continues beyond the go-live of your new business solution. Through its Business Support phase it prepares your business for a programme of continuous business improvement. To this end it is integrated with SSI's Customer Service processes to ensure you get continuity of supply across the full range of services available from SSI.

A Structured Methodology

• Project Definition & Launch
• Solution Design
• Solution Confirmation & Configuration
• Solution Simulation
• Implementation
• Business Support

SSI Implementation Team

• Project Manager
• Business Consultants
• Solution Consultants
• Technical Consultants
• SSI employed
• Average 12 years experience

Project Management Services

• SSI Deliverables & Project Audit
• Project Office Support
• Full Project Management

Optional Project Team Support Services

• Business Process Review & Improvement
• Dataload & Validation
• Business Processes & Procedure Documentation
• Simulation Scenarios
• Simulation Support
• End User Training
• Desktop Integration & Reporting

Flexible Project Phasing & Resourcing Options

• Single or Multi-Phase Go-lives
• Single and Multi-Business Roll-outs
• Outsourced to SSI
• Customer 'Self Sufficiency'

Solution Configuration Services

• User Roles / Intranet Configuration
• Optimised User Interfaces/Applications
• Business Documents
• System Integration & Interfaces
• EDI & B2B Integration
• Workflow & TROPOS Active
• 'Shop Floor' Data Collection: Bar Code/RFID
• SCADA/PLC Integration
• Business Intelligence & Reporting

Project Office Techniques

• Steering Team & Project Sponsor
• 'Plan on a Page' - Project Objectives
• Key Milestone Tracking & Reporting
• Change Management
• Process Modelling
• Risk Management Workshops - Go/No Go
• Issues and Assumptions Logs
• Microsoft Project Plan