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Business Applications/How an engagement runs/A Business Central rollout

A Business Central rollout

A mid-market finance and operations rollout, from fit-gap to a stabilised go-live.

Illustrative. This is a walkthrough of how we run this kind of engagement, not an account of a specific client project. It carries no client and no results, because none are being claimed. Delivered work, with measured outcomes, is on the work pages.

The situation this assumes

A company running finance on an ageing system with operations in spreadsheets alongside it. One legal entity, two warehouses, a close that takes longer every quarter.

Week by week

Weeks 1 to 3

Fit-gap and design

We sit with finance and operations and walk the processes as they run today, including the workarounds. Every gap is written down with the cost of closing it, so scope becomes a decision rather than a discovery.

What you get

  • Process map of the current state, workarounds included
  • Fit-gap register with an estimate against every gap
  • Solution design, chart of accounts and dimension model
  • A phased plan with what is explicitly out of scope
Weeks 4 to 8

Configure and build

Modules are configured against the agreed design and the integrations are built. You see it working in a test environment throughout, not at the end.

What you get

  • Configured finance, inventory and purchasing
  • Integrations to the systems either side, with error handling
  • A test environment your team can use from week five
  • Weekly demo against the fit-gap register
Weeks 9 to 12

Migrate and rehearse

Data comes across, gets reconciled to the source, and the cutover is rehearsed end to end. This is where most rollouts discover what they missed, which is why it is not left to the final fortnight.

What you get

  • Migration run with reconciliation reports against source totals
  • User acceptance testing with your team, on your data
  • A full cutover rehearsal with a timed runbook
  • A rollback plan that has been tested, not just written
Weeks 13 to 16

Go live and stabilise

Cutover happens on an agreed weekend. We stay on for the first close, because that is the moment the system either holds or does not.

What you get

  • Cutover support and hypercare through the first close
  • Admin runbooks and build documentation
  • Train-the-trainer sessions with your super users
  • A defect list with owners, closed out before handover

Where this gets difficult

Scope grows once people see the system working

The fit-gap register is the contract. New requests go on it with an estimate and a phase, and the sponsor decides. Nothing is absorbed silently, which is how timelines quietly slip.

Source data is worse than anyone admitted

We profile it in week two rather than week nine. If it is bad, you find out while there is still time to decide between cleaning it, cutting it, or moving the date.

Key people are unavailable in the weeks that matter

Named availability is agreed in the plan. If your financial controller cannot be in user acceptance testing, we say so early rather than testing without them and discovering it at go-live.

Shape

  • 14 to 16 weeks
  • A delivery lead, two functional consultants, one data engineer, part-time developer

Services involved

  • Finance and supply chain
  • Migration services
  • Managed services and support
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Other shapes

The engagements we run most often.

A multi-country Finance and Operations rolloutA migration off legacy DynamicsA CRM and ERP integrationA Power Platform governance reset