Migration from Mapics to Infor System21


Migration from Mapics to Infor System21

Executive Summary

  • American industrial goods and metal fabrication company that manufactures investment castings, forged components, and airfoil castings for use in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, and defense industries.
  • Established in 1969 which is an operating company of a major fortune 500 company.

Executive Summary

  • The client requirement is to configure and setup System 21 to be ready for business usage and to migrate the existing databases with company-specific data as per the business needs and provide user’s training

Business Challenge

  • Migrating Mapics to Infor System 21 ERP
  • System setup and configuration according to business needs
  • Data Migration from Mapics to System 21
  • Item Setup with Hierarchies – Application wise and Company set up wise
  • Recreating all existing queries into AS400
  • Application Manager Setup and Jobs Scheduling
  • Setting up 3rd party software and integrating them
  • Setting up Production control (MRP/MPS) in System 21 and standing Journals
  • Intercompany processes and multiple company set up in System 21.

Solution

  • System analysis and configuration compatible with the business for their financial system
  • Analyze the Data in Mapics and mapped to system 21
  • Provide Interface program that could communicate between Mapics and system 21 data
  • Trained the client’s team on user’s manual of all System 21’s applications
  • Provide a documentation of Application Usage as a guide for the users.

Business Benefits

  • All business modules are fully-integrated to a single platform
  • Application architecture is flexible and configurable by design, enabling the client to implement the ERP system to meet their unique business process requirements. 

Technology Used:

  • AS400 – RPGLE, SQLRPGLE, CLLE, DB2, QRY400