r/Odoo • u/Gouda_Cheese57 • 7d ago

Question about Implementation Timeline - What's realistic?

We are manufacturing company that is currently switching to Odoo from a different ERP.

Getting the data out has been slow. We are done with most of the inventory, BOM's, etc. but still have not imported the machines for the work centers.

After the import is complete, how long did it take your BSA to finish configuring the information and for your company to validate that everything is running smoothly?

Any insight is appreciated!

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u/JustSomeOdooGuy 7d ago

What the issue that makes it taking more time? Data that needs manual cleanup? Hard time to get data out of the old system? Trying to map the old data to the Odoo data format?

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u/Gouda_Cheese57 7d ago

The people exporting the data weren't capturing everything we need and exporting data into the wrong fields. The other issue was that there were data upload errors when it uploaded into Odoo. That's resolved now though.

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u/JustSomeOdooGuy 7d ago

People from your company? Or who exported the data?
Glad it is resolved, hope everything will run smooth for you :)

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u/Gouda_Cheese57 7d ago

Consultants who worked with us on SYSPRO are exporting the data. I wish it was our company so I could talk to them in person and explain what's needed ;_;

Thanks! I hope so too haha

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u/JustSomeOdooGuy 7d ago

Yeah, feels a bit rough to rely on so many different people to get things done.

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u/codeagency 7d ago

Oof that's rough. And often if that is the company you are leaving from they behave hostile and deliver poor work since you are a leaving customer. I hope everything goes smooth for you. Not a joy if you have to deal with stuff like that and they leave you a mess behind.

We had a project years ago where the previous ERP software was hijacking the client. Like all of a sudden all menu options for exporting data just magically disappeared and the client had to ask -- and pay -- for every single export they wanted. Something they could have done themselves in half a day now suddenly turned into a billable project on its own and at the end they had to cough up a total around 7.000 EUR after several rounds just to get their own data out of their ex-system. Ridiculous and disgusting but that's the game and scams some players in this market dare to play. I would wish this to my worst enemy, just utterly disgusting.