Rescuing a Stalled Defense Sector IFS Implementation

The Challenge

A major enterprise in the heavily regulated aerospace and defense industry set out to move its operations from six distinct, disconnected legacy ERP systems into a single IFS environment. Two years in, the implementation was spinning.

The project was 60% over budget and 13 months late. It was deep into its lifecycle but still lacked basic alignment, the scope had never been accurately defined, and to make up for delays the scope was actively shrinking, eroding the business value of the whole deployment.

The Approach

Coredrive took over with an immediate, two pillar rescue strategy. The first pillar halted the spin through rigorous solution design, scope definition and testing. The second solved the hardest problem on the project: harmonizing data from six different legacy systems into one.

The Solution

• Scope defined late in the lifecycle: strict solution design parameters and clear scope boundaries that stopped the spin and set the first true baseline for system performance.
• Accurate system testing: with scope fixed, rigorous testing pathways moved the system from defined scope to stabilization.
• Six to one data migration: a full data management lifecycle: aligning with business stakeholders on data needs, harmonizing business and IT data, and precisely mapping all six legacy sources to the new structure.
• Clean data and a firm date: every record entering the end state IFS system was vetted, and Coredrive took control of the schedule with a firm delivery date.

The Results

Project Recovery

Data and Systems