Discovery to go-live in 4–8 weeks, with a free proof of concept on your own data.
We take iDempiere from a first fit-gap workshop to a stable go-live and a clean handover into support — before you commit a single rupee or dollar of budget, you see your own numbers running on real screens.
An ERP go-live is a business event, not a software install. Our job is to make sure the first month-end after cutover reconciles, the warehouse still ships, and finance trusts the numbers on the balance sheet.
Your data, your chart of accounts, real screens — before any purchase order is signed.
Two-week cycles, each ending in a demo of working software that you sign off.
A full dress rehearsal before the real weekend — so go-live is calm, controlled and boring.
Every engagement is built on iDempiere's document flows, posting into a single Accounting Schema — no interfaces to reconcile, no nightly batch to babysit. Configuration lives in the Application Dictionary, and anything bespoke ships as an OSGi plugin, which keeps your future upgrades cheap.
The variable is rarely the software. It is data quality and how quickly your team can make decisions. The figures below are indicative ranges from projects of similar shape, not fixed quotes.
| Project shape | Indicative duration | Typical scope | Main driver of the range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single entity — finance + distribution | 4–6 weeks | GL, AR/AP, one or two warehouses, sales and purchasing, standard reports | Cleanliness of master data and opening balances |
| Single entity — + manufacturing | 6–8 weeks | Adds BOMs, routings, work orders, costing and shop-floor reporting | Number of BOM levels and costing method decisions |
| Multi-country / multi-org consolidation | 8–12 weeks | Multiple ledgers, currencies, tax regimes, localizations and heavy integration | Statutory variation and integration count per country |
Note. These are indicative ranges for planning only. Your actual timeline is confirmed after discovery, once the gap list is sized. We would rather quote a realistic range than an optimistic date.
Every implementation carries the same four safeguards — they are how we keep dates honest and budgets intact.
Your data, your chart of accounts, real screens — configured and demoed back before you commit budget. You keep whatever we configure, whether or not you proceed.
See It on Your Data 02Two-week cycles, each ending in a demo you sign off. A single decision log with owners and due dates keeps momentum, and the go-live scope stays fixed so the date stays fixed.
Discuss Your Scope 03A full dress rehearsal on a copy of production — timed, documented, with a defined rollback point — before the real weekend. Go-live becomes calm, controlled and boring.
See Past Go-Lives 04Four weeks of hypercare with a named consultant on call, covering your first weekly and month-end cycles — then a clean handover to SLA-backed application management.
Explore Support & AMSNo big-bang mystery. You see working software at the close of every sprint, and nothing goes live that has not been rehearsed.
Two to four workshops mapping your processes onto iDempiere's document flows. We design the chart of accounts and Accounting Schema, agree the costing method, and log every gap — classified as configuration, extension or integration and sized in days. This becomes the scope baseline.
We take a representative slice — one product family, one warehouse, a month of transactions — configure it, load it, and demo it back. You see your own numbers on real screens before you commit budget, and you keep whatever we configure.
Business Partner Groups, Product Attribute Sets, Price List Versions, tax, workflows and OSGi extensions delivered in two-week sprints. In parallel we cleanse and stage master data, so the build and the data converge rather than colliding at the end.
Two full user acceptance cycles against scripted business scenarios. Open balances are loaded, reconciled and signed off. Then a dress-rehearsal cutover on a copy — timed, documented and de-risked — so the real weekend holds no surprises.
Cutover over a weekend, then four weeks of hypercare with a named consultant on call. Once the first month-end closes cleanly, we hand over to Application Management Services with documentation and runbooks in place.
Projects slip when nobody owns a task. Here is the working division of labour between your team and ours across the main activities.
| Activity | Client (you) | SCM Software Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Process decisions & sign-off | Owns — provides subject-matter experts and a decision-maker | Facilitates, documents, recommends |
| Chart of accounts & Accounting Schema | Approves structure and mappings | Designs and configures |
| Master data cleansing | Owns data accuracy and de-duplication | Provides templates, validation rules and load tooling |
| Configuration & extensions | Reviews at each sprint demo | Builds — Application Dictionary and OSGi plugins |
| User acceptance testing | Executes scripts, raises defects, signs off | Writes scripts, fixes defects, retests |
| Cutover & go-live | Approves go/no-go, freezes legacy | Runs the runbook, loads balances, stands up hypercare |
| Training & adoption | Frees users; nominates power users | Delivers role-based training and runbooks |
After eleven years, the same three things cause almost every delay. None of them is the software. We plan for all three from day one.
Legacy master data is almost always dirtier than anyone admits — duplicate partners, missing tax codes, stock that does not tie to the ledger.
Cleansing starts in week one — data loads into a staging area and is reconciled against your trial balance before any UAT begins.
An open question that waits three weeks for an answer is three weeks of slip — and ERP projects generate hundreds of questions.
One decision log with owners and due dates, and one empowered sponsor who settles process questions in the room — not by committee.
Every "while we're at it" quietly stretches the timeline beyond the baseline that was agreed at discovery.
New requests are sized, then either fit the current sprint budget or move to phase two. Go-live scope stays fixed, so the date stays fixed.
Dev, test and production instances with your Accounting Schema, tax, price lists, workflows and roles fully configured and documented.
Any bespoke callouts, validators, processes or windows, packaged as plugins and handed over in your Git repository with build scripts.
Master data and open balances migrated, reconciled to your trial balance and stock report, with the reconciliation pack signed off.
Scripted test scenarios, defect log, retest evidence and formal acceptance — the audit trail that lets everyone commit to go-live.
A timed, tested sequence of tasks for the go-live weekend, with owners, dependencies and a rollback point.
Role-based training for end users and power users, plus operational runbooks for month-end, year-end and routine administration.
"An ERP go-live is a business event, not a software install. We measure success by your first month-end close — not by our invoice."
We don't go live until it reconciles.
Balance sheet, stock and open documents — proven in rehearsal, every time.
Fixed-scope sprints, a free proof of concept and a cutover you rehearse — that is how 50+ projects went live on time and on budget.
Trusted worldwide for end-to-end iDempiere services — the best in the industry at what we do. Give us a slice of your process and see it running in iDempiere before you commit a purchase order. No licence to buy, no obligation.
