ORACLE FUSION IMPLEMENTATION

Executive summary

Clear, owner-driven actions to start Fusion implementation immediately, remove blockers, and establish governance for the first 30 days.

Immediate decisions (to be signed off within 48 hours)

• Deployment approach — Choose Phased waves or Big-bang.
• Go-live target month — Confirm cutover month and blackout windows.
• Data archival threshold — Decide how many years of transactional history to migrate vs archive.
• Budget guardrail — Confirm initial budget envelope and contingency percentage
• Hypercare duration — Set hypercare length (recommended 30 days).

Critical 7–day deliverables

• 1. Steering committee roster — Names, roles, escalation contacts, meeting cadence.
• 2. Project charter and success KPIs — Sponsor sign–off on month–end close days, invoice days, reconciliation tolerance.
• 3. Customisation inventory — Template completed and classification (Retain/Refactor/Replace/Retire).
• 4. Integration owners list — System, owner, contact, interface type, current cadence.
• 5. Initial security & COA baseline — Chart of accounts draft and proposed security role owners.
• 6. Environment map — Test, UAT, pre–prod, production access and refresh schedule.
• 7. Cutover blackout calendar — Business blackout dates and transaction freeze windows.

Top 5 priorities for first 30 days

• Complete high–level solution design for Finance and key SCM flows.
• Run first sample data conversion for GL, AR, AP and trial balance reconciliation.
• Establish test strategy and UAT schedule with business owners and acceptance criteria.
• Deliver two super–user nominations per function and schedule train–the–trainer sessions.
• Perform two interface smoke tests for critical inbound/outbound integrations.

Owners, cadence and escalation

• Sponsor — executive owner responsible for approvals.
• Project Manager — daily tracker, risk owner, and meeting facilitator.
• Solution Lead (Finance) — COA, reconciliation, close process owner.
• Integration Lead — interface delivery and cutover sequencing owner.
• Change Lead — training, communications, and super–user readiness owner.
• Cadence — Weekly steering, twice–weekly tactical, daily war–room during cutover.

Immediate risks to mitigate now

• High customisation volume — Mitigate by rapid rationalisation and pilot refactor list.
• Integration readiness — Mitigate by locking interface owners and running smoke tests.
• Data quality gaps — Mitigate by prioritising cleanse for master data and open balances.
• Stakeholder availability — Mitigate by confirming backups for all named owners.

Quick approvals requested now

• Sign off on deployment approach and hypercare duration.
• Approve project charter, KPIs and initial budget guardrail.
• Confirm steering committee members and meeting cadence.

Client deliverable pack to receive within 7 days

• Signed project charter and KPI sheet.
• Completed customisation inventory template.
• Integration owners contact list.
• Draft COA and security role owner list.
• Environment access matrix and cutover blackout calendar.