Case Study
Bills of material moved from Made2Manage to Global Shop
A manufacturer moving from Made2Manage to Global Shop needed years of bills of material and routings to arrive intact. We migrated them with the structure, revisions and history preserved, so production did not stop at cutover.
Intact
Multi-level BOM structure after migration
Validated
Every BOM checked against the source before go-live
No
Production stop at cutover
The challenge
- Years of multi-level bills of material and routings lived in Made2Manage.
- Global Shop structures items, operations and revisions differently.
- A bad migration would have stopped the floor on the first day in the new system.
What we did
- Extracted BOMs, routings and item masters from Made2Manage with their revision history.
- Built the transformation into Global Shop structures, with rules for the cases that did not map one to one.
- Ran trial loads into a Global Shop test company and compared every bill against the source.
- Repeated until the comparison was clean, then ran the final load at cutover.
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