Boring Go Live® Announcements
March 2012 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
The Nation’s Largest Vertically Integrated Marketer of Tires
Go-Live Date: 03/15/2012
On March 15th 2012, the nation’s largest vertically integrated marketer of tires had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration employing the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™. The BackOffice team, in conjunction with the system integrator, IBM, converted legacy. more..
Canada’s Largest Food Retailer
Go-Live Date: 03/19/2012
Canada’s largest food retailer and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services experienced another successful Boring Go Live® data migration on March 19, 2012. This migration project centered on the enhancement. more...
A Fortune 100, $26 Billion Diversified Technology Company
Go-Live Date: 03/25/2012
A fortune 100, $26 billion diversified technology company with over 80,000 employees, producing more than 55,000 products, teamed with BackOffice Associates® to deliver a successful Boring Go Live® data migration. During this eight month. more...
February 2012 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A Fortune 500 Specialty Retail Company
Go-Live Date: 02/03/2012
A fortune 500 specialty retail company with more than 1,500 stores and nearly 40,000 associates, had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration utilizing BackOffice Associates®. The BackOffice Associates team in conjunction with Cognizant Zaffera, the system integrator, migrated. more...
A Privately Held, Worldwide Manufacturer of Confectionary, Pet and other Food Products
Go-Live Date: 02/26/2012
On February 26, 2012, a privately held, worldwide manufacturer of confectionary, pet and other food products experienced another successful Boring Go Live® data migration with BackOffice Associates®. The client brought two more manufacturing plants live. more...
January 2012 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A Global Pharmaceutical and Diagnostics Company
Go-Live Date: 01/01/2012
On January 1, 2012 a global pharmaceutical and diagnostics company had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration using the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™. The project was a roll-out of global HCM solution. more...
A $26 Billion, Fortune 500 Company and One of the Largest Distributors of Electronic Components
Go-Live Date: 01/29/2012
A $26 billion, Fortune 500 company and top five in Electronics and Office Equipment, experienced an early Boring Go Live® data migration using the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™. During this project, the client’s home grown legacy systems are being converted. more...
A $37 Billion, Fortune 100 Food and Grocery Wholesaler
Go-Live Date: 01/29/2012
A $37 billion per year company, engaged Deloitte consulting and BackOffice Associates® to assist in a full implementation of SAP® ECC, CRM, APO, BI, SRM and MDM. The client is implementing OTC, PTP, HR and FICO across. more...
November 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
The World’s Largest Information Technology Distributor
Go-Live Date: 11/01/2011
The world’s largest information technology distributor and a Fortune 100 company, experienced a BackOffice Associates® Boring Go Live® data migration on November 1, 2011 at their offices in Santa Ana, California; Toronto, Canada and Buffalo, New York. The BackOffice team has been converting the client’s worldwide operations a few countries at a time since 2009 and most recently migrated a portion of their logistics business in the United States and Canada. more...
One of the World’s Largest Brewing Companies
Go-Live Date: 11/02/2011
A global brewing and bottling company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and the world’s second-largest brewing company, utilized the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™ for a successful Boring Go Live® data migration.The project was the creation of the global template for all country companies to be integrated into the global SAP® instance. This release project consisted of the conversion of the Ecuador business in Latin America into this global instance. more...
A Global Specialty Pharmaceutical & Medication Delivery Company
Go-Live Date: 11/14/2011
On November 14, 2011 a $4 billion company and the world’s largest producer of generic injectable pharmaceuticals, had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration at the company’s headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois. During this six month project, the BackOffice Associates® team, together with system integrator ModelN, were responsible for the migration of data from heritage SAP® and iMany systems to ModelN and SAP ECC 6.0 in order to support the Medicaid portion of the clients business which supports government regulated pricing programs. more...
One of the Largest Poultry Producers in the United States
Go-Live Date: 11/28/2011
One of the largest poultry producers in the United States, had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration on November 28, 2011. Employing the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™ throughout this eight month project, the client went live with direct material procurement, production planning, product execution/data collection, product costing as well as material ledger as part of this project. more...
October 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $58 Billion, Fortune 500 Company in the Consumer Goods Industry
Go-Live Date: 10/01/2011
On October 1, 2011 BackOffice Associates® delivered a successful Boring Go Live® data migration for a $58 billion, Fortune 500 Company in the consumer goods industry utilizing the BackOffice Associates Data Migration Toolset™. This reorganization project is combining all of the client’s Americas systems onto one instance of SAP® ECC 6.0. more...
A $53 Billion, Fortune 50 Chemical Company
Go-Live Date: 10/03/2011
A $53 billion, Fortune 50 chemical company experienced a BackOffice Associates® Boring Go® Live data migration on October 3, 2011. The client’s team represents a number of functions, including finance, purchasing, manufacturing and information systems, among others, who are working on next-generation computer systems. more...
A Global 500 Company and a World Leader in Mining
Go-Live Date: 10/03/2011
On October 3, 2011, a Global 500 company and a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth’s mineral resources, announced a successful Boring Go Live® data migration utilizing the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™. This project will replace 29 major and 154 minor systems in its conversion to SAP® ECC 6.0 over three deployments. more...
A $47 Billion, Fortune 100 Aerospace and Defense Technology Company
Go-Live Date: 10/31/2011
A $47 billion, Fortune 100 company specializing in aerospace and defense technology, had a successful Boring Go Live® data migration on October 31, 2011. During this complex supply chain Aerospace and Defense (A&D) project, the BackOffice Associates® team migrated several government systems and the client’s internal systems into SAP® ECC 6.0, as well as a transportation management system (non-SAP). more...
September 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
One of the World's Largest Pharmaceutical Companies
Go-Live Date: 08/29/2011
During this twelve month project, the BackOffice team successfully migrated approximately 250 targets and sources in the China and Hong Kong markets, the Asia Logistics Center and the Ireland plant. This is the second of a multi-year, multi-national implementation for the client using the BackOffice Associates Data Migration Toolset™, with system integrator IBM®. Work is well under way for the next go-live, scheduled for February 2012. more...
A $61 Billion, Fortune 50 Global Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 09/06/2011
The project focused on migrating legacy systems onto the client's existing SAP® platform during a very dynamic and challenging time. Ultimately the dedicated team prevailed and was able to successfully migrate over 1.17 million records including 30,000 material masters and 3,000 vendors from SAP R/3 release 4.6C to ECC 6.0 in a validated environment. more...
The Largest Food Retailer in Canada
Go-Live Date: 09/19/2011
Using the BackOffice Associates Data Migration Toolset™, this retail migration to SAP ECC 6.0 successfully migrated 150,000 articles, 37 million listings, 450,000 cost conditions, 2 million pricing conditions and 40 million ZTable records. During the last few weeks the entire team, including the system integrator, Accenture Canada, came together to address the final legacy cleansing and construction effort, as well as last minute requirements necessary to allow the conversion go-live to be exceptionally boring. more...
A $12 Billion, Fortune 500 Consumer Food Products Company
Go-Live Date: 09/26/2011
During this nine month project the client retired numerous legacy systems and migrated to SAP® ECC 6.0. The client was able to replace their contracting and invoicing (C&I) system, and complimentary point solutions with a more sustainable order to cash system, as well as portions of the sales and distribution, materials management and finance modules within SAP ECC. more...
August 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $6 Billion, Fortune 500 Network and Communication Company
Go-Live Date: 08/01/2011
The first location was a production facility which produces fiber optic cable and associated hardware, and a second location was a warehouse located in Singapore. During this six month project, the BackOffice Associates team converted 3,500 materials, 5,000 open AR, 1,000 BOM’s, 1,000 routings, 250 sales orders, as well as production orders, purchase orders and open AP. more...
A Privately-Held American Rotorcraft Company
Go-Live Date: 08/22/2011
The project involved 21 legacy systems that were converted into Dassault’s Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) system (Enovia) and SAP®’s Complex Assembly Solution (CAMS) planning systems. This is the first of three releases that BackOffice Associates will be working on with the client, who will be retiring over 150 legacy systems when the project is completed and will have replaced several systems installed as far back as 1968. more...
A $67 Billion Fortune 50 General Merchandise Company
Go-Live Date: 08/28/2011
As part of the project, 19 legacy systems were decommissioned while migrating data for SD (Sales & Distribution), P2P (Procure to Pay), AFR (Administer Financial Reporting) and TR (Treasury) modules. This was BackOffice Associates second Boring Go Live for the client. The cutover weekend ended with a perfect data load of over 49 million records of invoice history, while work on the next release will begin in October with a projected go-live date in the third quarter of 2012. more...
July 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $49 Billion, Fortune 50 Food Consumer Company
Go-Live Date: 06/27/2011
The BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™ was used to integrate an acquired company’s legacy systems into the client’s SAP® ECC 6.0 system of record after the merger of these two companies. Three separate SAP systems in Europe, consisting of 13,000 recipes and over 100,000 materials, were loaded during this six month project. more...
A $54 Billion, Fortune 50 Chemical Company
Go-Live Date: 07/03/2011
Over 100 separate objects were migrated into SAP ECC® 6.0, CRM, SCM and GTS systems. This was BackOffice Associates’ second successful go-live for the global chemical company. The next wave is scheduled to go-live in October 2011. The October go-live will conclude Milestone 1, the migration of the remaining legacy data. more...
A $7 Billion, Fortune 500 Apparel Company
Go-Live Date: 07/03/2011
This project covered Hong Kong and China and is unlike the client’s US conversion where the configuration is far less customized. Over 2,900 customers, 6,000 vendors, 2,000 bank master records, 500 profit centers and 3,900 cost centers were migrated during this three month project. more...
A $27 Billion, Fortune 100 Multinational Corporation
Go-Live Date: 07/04/2011
One of the client’s business units converted data from several legacy sources to SAP® ECC 6.0. During this 16 month project, 33,000 bank master records, 45,000 customers, 13,000 vendors, 194,000 materials, 75,000 BOMs, 42,000 operating procedures, 42,000 production versions and 3,000 storage bins were all migrated to SAP modules, SD, MM, P2P and PP. more...
A $9 Billion, Fortune 500 Global Chemical Company
Go-Live Date: 07/05/2011
This project was initiated when the client’s plant maintenance legacy software was no longer being supported by the vendor. This legacy system lacked consistency across plants and did not match SAP®’s structural design. BackOffice Associates was tasked with the cleansing, construction and migration of all plant maintenance data. more...
A $46 Billion, Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 07/05/2011
This interim project was pivotal in moving legacy systems in Asia to the acquired company’s SAP® R/3 4.7 legacy systems while waiting for their own global project to reach Asia. Four different waves experienced go-lives including; Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. more...
One of America’s Largest Privately-Owned Companies
Go-Live Date: 07/17/2011
This go-live included basic plant maintenance functionality including functional locations, equipment, BOMs, materials, vendors and preventative maintenance plans. more...
The Largest Food retailer in Canada
Go-Live Date: 07/17/2011
The client has an aggressive multi-year plan for rolling out SAP for retail; this wave covered six of the most complex categories that make up their business including apparel, books and stationary, and confectionary. more...
$19 Billion, Fortune 500 Electronics and Office Equipment Company
Go-Live Date: 07/31/2011
The project migrated the entire technology solution division onto SAP® ECC 6.0 and CRM for the entire US. The client’s homegrown legacy systems are now being converted to one single instance of SAP. Of the 60 objects loaded into ECC 6.0 and CRM, 38 were considered high level. more...
June 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $27 Billion, Fortune 100 Multinational Corporation
Go-Live Data: 06/01/2011
One of the client’s business units located in Neuss Germany, converted data from legacy systems PeopleSoft® and an internal legacy system to SAP® ECC 6.0 modules FICO, SD, MM, PM, and P2P. This effort resulted in the migration of over 4,500 material master records, 1600 vendors and 5,200 customers, as well as numerous cost centers for FICO and purchasing info records for P2P. more...
A National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Go-Live Date: 06/9/2011
This Successful project was an effort to move legacy system data to the clients existing SAP® ECC 6.0 system and retire seven legacy systems in the process. After go-live, SAP is now the system of record for GL, AP, AR and MM. Thirty-seven objects were converted and included rolling up over 17,000 customers from legacy systems to 2,500 master customers in SAP. During this two year project, the BackOffice Associates® migration team loaded an impressive 26,000 vendors, 60,000 materials, 46,000 work breakdown structures and three million GL transactions. Focus on business relevancy was also key to this successful migration. more...
A $58 Billion, Fortune 50 Food & Beverage Company
Go-Live Date: 06/9/2011
The client went live on SAP® ECC 6.0 in the first wave of a multi-wave project to implement SAP in 11 disparate global plants. This project introduced global, integrated and harmonized solutions for the business. The client’s Center of Excellence has said this project “Exceeded all expectations and set the benchmark for future SAP projects”. In thirteen months the BackOffice Associates® team migrated over 70 objects across SAP modules FICO, MM, SD, PS and QM. This wave also included migrating over 7,000 materials, 1,000 suppliers and 300 customers. more...
May 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
The World’s Fourth Largest Brewery
Go-Live Date: 05/04/2011
The BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™ was an integral part of this go-live, as well as the implementation of cMat™ and cVend™. This program is part of the client’s ambitious plan to standardize its data and processes, and consolidate their Northern and Western European markets on a single SAP® ECC 6.0 instance. Over 60 data objects were loaded into four different SAP stand alone systems: ECC, CRM, APO and EWM and more than 20 million data records were migrated to SAP modules FI, CO, MM, SD, QM, PM, WM, PP, IM, purchasing, EWM and CLM. cMat went live with 39 scenarios and 85 active users while cVend went live with eight scenarios. more...
A $12 Billion, Fortune 500 Company in the Food Consumer Products Industry
Go-Live Date: 05/31/2011
Utilizing the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™, the client’s Boring Go Live® data migration consisted of migrating 817 new vendors and extended an additional 2,600 vendors from a legacy system to SAP® ECC 6.0. By utilizing the BackOffice DataConstructionServer™ to retrieve legacy vendor master data, the plant users were able to maintain vendor information which was approved by purchasing, credit, treasury and the data management organization before being loaded into SAP. more...
Fortune 1000 New York Clothing Company
Go-Live Date: 05/15/2011
This 15 month project primarily focused on procurement. Twenty-five conversion objects were in scope including articles, vendors, sites, pricing, inventory, purchase orders and sales history. This retail migration to SAP® ECC 6.0 included 73,000 articles, 180 million listings, four million prices and 9,000 purchase orders. more...
A $4 Billion, Fortune 1000 Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 05/16/2011
Using the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™, team members Doug Halverson, Jared Anderson and Nate LaFerle converted over 345,000 records to SAP® ECC 6.0 with no errors. In three months, this team established a single global material master record for each product, eliminated multiple material master records and met the objectives of eliminating the existing sales bill of material relationship. more...
April 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $5 Billion, Fortune 500 Company Specializing in Flexible Packaging
Go-Live Date: 04/04/2011
With 80 facilities in 12 countries, the client services customers around the globe. BackOffice Associates has taken 11 sites live using the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™. The migration included 56 conversion objects along with the creation of 9,513 new materials, 312 new customers and 424 new vendors. more...
An $8 Billion, Fortune 500 Company Specializing in the Manufacturing of Quality Skincare and Other Products
Go-Live Date: 04/04/2011
The BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™ has been instrumental to the client since their first project in May 2007. The current project centers around creating a common framework across the entire business organization and implementing SAP® ECC 6.0 at select global affiliates in the UK, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This 15 month migration effort included SAP modules MM, purchasing, inventory, production, FI, SD and QM. Over 100 conversion objects from 300+ data sources including 12 legacy systems were the source of the data migrated. 55,000 materials, 7,000 vendors and 23,000 customer master records were migrated. more...
A $13 Billion, Fortune 500 Company in the Medical Products & Equipment Industry
Go-Live Date: 04/04/2011
Using the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™, senior veteran consultant, Brad Snell, along with members of the client’s data team successfully migrated over 14,000 materials, 13,000 vendors, 8,000 equipment and 23,000 assets during this nine month project. In addition to migrating to SAP ECC 6.0, data loads were also performed into SAP’s global trade services (GTS) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. more...
A $4 Billion, Fortune 1000 Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 04/17/2011
In this aggressive timeline, the client, acting as its own system integrator, was able to utilize the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™ to restructure the vendor master records for their current global instance of SAP® ECC 6.0, as well as migrate new vendor master records from 12 global locations running legacy systems AS/400, JDE, Ross, Expandable ERP, MfgPro, Data3 and SAP systems. The following types of vendor activity were all loaded as part of this successful migration: in excess of 4,600 vendor records at the parent level, 4,900 ordering address records, 4,800 pay to address records, 12,500 contact records, 11,000 partner relationships established, 12,500 blocked payments at the parent level, reclassified 4,900 vendor assignments and removed 27,800 incorrect partner relationships. more...
A $37 Billion, Fortune 100 Company in the Wholesalers Food and Grocery Industry
Go-Live Date: 04/17/2011
The execution of SAP® ECC 6.0 includes implementing OTC, PTP, HR and FICO across 183 locations. This go-live represents the first for this holding company, and an opportunity to consolidate materials, vendors and customers across the client’s enterprise. This project will also position the client for the future as they continue to grow in the food distribution industry. more...
The Largest Food Retailer in Canada
Go-Live Date: 04/18/2011
Using the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset ™, this retail migration to SAP® ECC 6.0 consisted of 45,000 articles, 2.5 million listings, 100,000 costing conditions, 35,000 purchase information records and 120,000 retail pricing conditions. This Boring Go Live data migration for Wave 2 covered 14 of the 99 categories that make up the client’s business. more...
A $15 Billion, Fortune 500 Biotechnology Company
Go-Live Date: 04/25/2011
This project involved both US and overseas operations and included over 200,000 handling units, thousands of materials and various supporting functions under MM, QM and LE. The client first began using the BackOffice Associates Data Migration Toolset™ in January 2006 to migrate from JDE to SAP ECC 5.0. more...
March 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $54 Billion, Fortune 100 Chemical Company
Go-Live Date: 03/01/2011
The 15 month project was a migration of legacy data from an acquired company’s ECC and CRM systems into the client’s SAP® ECC 6.0 systems including the migration of 109 objects into five target systems. more...
A $58 Billion, Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Company
Go-Live Date: 03/03/2011
Using the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™, the client went live on SAP® ECC 6.0 on March 3, 2011. The 11 month project included the full implementation of FICO, MM, MMP, PP and PM along with a reduced SD scope. All of these processes have been implemented on the European SAP system including Germany, the Netherlands and the Balkans regions. more...
The Number One Brand of Premium Chicken
Go-Live Date: 03/28/2011
BackOffice consultants joined the project in July 2010, with the implementation of OTC, purchasing, product costing, and manufacturing intelligence and integration (MII). The first wave concentrated on OTC and involved the migration of materials, customers, pricing, contracts, inquires, open A/R and inventory from SAP 4.6C to ECC 6.0. more...
February 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $62 Billion, Fortune 50 Company in the Consumer Products Industry
Go-Live Date: 02/01/2011
The client recently completed their data governance upgrade from an existing ASP version to .NET running SQL Server 2008. Dallas Monday and Steve Russ converted all the BackOffice Associates® solutions along with the client’s customizations and BackOffice’s utility programs. Collaborative Applications™, including cMat™ and cConfig™, were also successfully configured to BackOffice’s .NET framework. This five month upgrade project was imperative to the success of future releases of the client’s solutions. more...
A $4 Billion, Fortune 1000 Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 02/06/2011
Utilizing the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™, the focus for this go-live was restructuring vendor master data. Over 229,000 vendor related records were either loaded or updated for the client’s global instance of SAP®, as well as migrating new vendor master records from five new locations which were running AS/400 to JDE systems. more...
A $50 Billion, Fortune 50 Company in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Go-Live Date: 02/28/2011
Using the BackOffice Associates® Data Migration Toolset™, the project covered 12 major locations including two R&D locations, two global financial shared service locations and two company owned distribution centers. The SAP modules included FICO, SD, MM and SCM. This is the beginning of a multi-year, multi-national implementation that will eventually include 33 markets and 26 plants. more...
January 2011 Boring Go Live® Announcement:
A $13 Billion, Fortune 500 Company in the Medical Products & Equipment Industry
Go-Live Date: 01/04/2011
This recent Boring Go Live® data migration included financials and purchasing for the client’s corporate division along with a small R&D division. Along with the data migrations, they are running a nightly interface and quarterly updates of their patient device tracking through InterfaceServer™. more...
A $2.5 Billion, Fortune 1000 Company Specializing in Lighting Technology
Go-Live Dates: 01/05/2011 & 02/04/2011
As a result of this ongoing relationship and their past success with the BackOffice Data Migration Toolset™, BackOffice was reengaged by the client when they made four new acquisitions in need of legacy data migration to SAP ECC. For each of the four migrations, all of the master data objects were loaded: materials, vendors, customers, BOMs, routings, inventory and PIRs. more...
A $46 Billion, Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company
Go-Live Date: 01/17/2011
The HR project was a major milestone in the integration of an acquired company’s HR data and their 15,000 active employees in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico into the client’s existing SAP® HR system. This 10 month project brought accolades from various program leads for BackOffice Associates®’ delivery of a Boring Go Live® data migration in such a remarkably short period of time. more...
A Fortune 1000, Independent Energy Logistics Company
Go-Live Date: 01/31/2011
With legacy systems spread out in offices and warehouses nationwide, each of the client’s locations had been operating with its own back-end systems and individual supply chains. This project will enable the client to drive sales synergies across the company and once on a common platform, they will have the ability to leverage B2B and e-commerce across the company as well. more...
A $35 Billion, Fortune 100 Company in the Wholesale Distributor of Technology Products and Services Industry
Go-Live Date: 01/31/2011
With the completion of Australia and Belgium, this brings the number of go-lives to six with 20 more global migrations to go. Australia was the first country to go-live with SAP®’s inventory management and was the largest data conversion for the client to date with over 16,000 customers, 2,700 vendors and 183,000 materials! Belgium’s success includes being the first EMEA country to go-live and introduce the Pan-Euro functionality within SAP with integration to the client’s system. Although not as large as Australia, Belgium converted over 13,000 customers, 2,000 vendors and 178,000 materials. more...
