I am interested to see if anyone has ever tried something similar to what I am thinking. So, I’ve been at my new company for a month now and things are starting to come into focus. We are currently on 8 and plan on going Epicor Cloud. Almost nothing in Epicor is being used as intended. It is pretty…

Thanks for the responses everyone! I fully understand that best practice is to convert everything on the upgrade, but I am not really seeing it as viable in a reasonable amount of time. The business processes are so fundamentally broken and completely opposite of what should be done, I am not seeing…

John, that’s why I’d just upgrade it as is and let them in there. Pay the money for one cloud conversion pass to get it uplifted and have them do quote to cash on that same scenario. And if it works it works. You’re out like a couple thousand bucks and they get to see what going forward with current…

[image] jkane: I fully understand that best practice is to convert everything on the upgrade I don’t agree. There comes a point when you just need to start over. This may be one of those times.

[image] klincecum: This may be one of those times. I agree, but to what end. If nobody wants to improve processes and you’re starting over with the hopes that you’ll change processes to support starting over I don’t know how that’s going to go if what we’re being told is nobody wants to chang…

You have your choice of nightmares. If the time and resources aren’t available to straighten out the data beforehand, but the WILL is there to correct the data as necessary, go that way. It won’t be easy, but at least it will be possible. In my (not-usually-so) humble opinion, bringing in the bad da…

[image] Ernie: You have your choice of nightmares. Excellent way to put it. [image] Ernie: bringing in the bad data will eventually cripple you since everyone will try to keep using it the same old way with the same old lack of good process. That is exactly what I was trying to say. […

Since he’s going to keep the old system running until all the old jobs are done, that won’t be an option. This is one of the nightmares he’s choosing… but at least it has an end date.

Interesting thoughts - went through some of those scenarios at a couple of different places. The biggest kicker was historical information. Now with all the BI tools and such, it may be a lesser issue. I’ve seen management change and want to do things differently - throw out the GL, change to sma…

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utaylor (Utah Taylor) November 14, 2023, 4:53pm 21

@Ernie in terms of timing, would you work to correct the processes in vantage before going live, no matter how long that takes? In other words, delay the cutover until new processes are in place to support a new data approach?

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