The Ultimate Oracle NetSuite Implementation Guide with Big Bang
Big Bang can help you implement, reimplement, or rescue Oracle NetSuite ERP system for companies of any size, industry, and market.
As a NetSuite Partner offering consulting services since 2014, we’ve handled over hundreds of successful implementation projects – and many rescue missions to pick up where others could not succeed. With this experience comes in-depth knowledge of all checkpoints and possible issues that could come up during an ERP implementation – simple or more complex.
It’s our job to guide you to get the best of the solution immediately and in the long term.
Did you know that half of our NetSuite customers come from a failed implementation? They come to us because they know we have a thorough and global understanding of the NetSuite implementation process and how to best integrate it into their global IT infrastructure.
Big Bang’s team of expert consultants offer unique end-to-end implementation services that are agile to your business needs. From our proprietary GAB’s Pyramid™ framework to our rescue services, Big Bang makes it a point to understand your business processes and the project’s reality altogether.
How to do a NetSuite Implementation
At Big Bang, our experienced consultants kick-start the NetSuite implementation process with a comprehensive Business Process Review (BPR). During this initial implementation phase, key stakeholders such as project managers, executive sponsors, and developers from your organization are engaged in in-depth interviews to pinpoint the business requirements of each department. This foundational step ensures the implementation aligns seamlessly with your company’s objectives.
Streamlining the Implementation Timeline
Upon completing the planning phase, we oversee the entire implementation process. Whether you prefer a hands-off implementation approach, allowing our Big Bang consultants to handle the complete implementation, or wish to collaborate with your in-house experts, we’ve got you covered. Our experienced implementation team ensures that every aspect of the implementation aligns with your organization’s goals and requirements. We provide the expertise needed to navigate the complexities of ERP implementation.
The Road to a Successful NetSuite Implementation
From inception to completion, expect a transparent and collaborative approach throughout the NetSuite implementation journey. Our team initiates work promptly after the implementation plan is presented and agreed upon. You’ll receive regular updates and communications to inform you about progress.
With Big Bang’s expertise in professional services automation and NetSuite’s capabilities as a modern ERP system, we ensure a natural fit for success. Leveraging our proprietary 7-step methodology, The Big Bang Experience®, we collaborate closely with our clients to transform their business operations with NetSuite, ensuring a successful implementation process with an optimized user experience.
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NetSuite Implementation Steps
At Big Bang, our 7-step proprietary methodology ensures successful cloud business transformation. It’s adaptable to your budget and timeline, embodying an agile mindset, dynamic scope, and stakeholder commitment, setting the standard for Cloud Solution delivery. The implementation phase starts with a stakeholder meeting, defining roles, objectives, scope, and success criteria. A robust communication plan ensures transparent and effective communication throughout all phases of implementation, while risk mitigation strategies are developed to handle potential project schedule disruptions. During this phase, the internal team identifies gap analysis and thoroughly examines your business processes, requirements, and future goals. Certified cloud consultants gain a deep understanding of your operations and align them with the challenges to be addressed during implementation. In the Design phase, the project team outlines the strategy for implementing reengineered business processes, deciding which processes can be adopted “out of the box” and which require expert customization or integration. Critical to the process, the Build phase involves expert implementation consultants constructing and configuring your new system. This step ensures seamless alignment with your business needs, covering financial, language, shipping, and customer-facing requirements. We perform essential testing and thorough, rigorous validation to preserve system functionality and prevent potential problems. We offer comprehensive NetSuite training and testing to ensure a smooth transition. With development complete, the deployment phase transforms your Cloud Solution from concept to reality. It involves configuration, customization, data migration, and an efficient transition plan to onboard your team and stakeholders. After deployment, we seek Project Sign Off and gather feedback from your team. As a trusted NetSuite implementation partner, we provide ongoing post-implementation support, training, and optimization services, helping streamline processes and stimulate business growth. Learn more about The Big Bang Experience® and Our ApproachStep 1: Kick-off
Step 2: Analyze
Step 3: Design
Step 4: Build
Step 5: Validate
Step 6: Deploy
Step 7: Optimize
At Big Bang, we treat your business like your own, which is why we give advice based on best practices, leading solutions, and valuable experience. We are versed in implementing and integrating software, remaining grounded to the reality of what happens after the software selection - what is the reality, what works, what does not work, what should work based on what you read, but does not.
Big Bang has been involved in the digital transformation of over 500 organizations, so our experts know which pitfalls to look out for and proactively avoid – across various industries and geographies, while leveraging the best-practices. We know how to ensure a smooth transition through times of change, and it starts with our proprietary implementation methodology, The Big Bang Experience®
Lean on the certified experts of Big Bang’s talented consulting team to implement and train your team to fully leverage the robust functionality of Oracle NetSuite.
Oracle NetSuite Implementation Issues: Big Bang to the Rescue
Customization is one of the most significant ways to get the most out of ERP systems. Workflows save time and reduce errors, but only if systems are connected and programmed correctly. Perhaps you had an internal team conduct a self implementation, and there was a turnover, leaving a gap in expertise or an unfinished implementation project. Big Bang consultants can jump in where the others left off to remediate an issue or rescue the project as a whole.
We quickly re-validate from the beginning where decisions were made: Is the problem the partner, the product, the approach, a combination of issues, or something else?
We have trained capacity ready to go like a 911 Emergency Service, skilled in expediting fixes to your implementation issues.
We believe that a crisis is not an excuse to skip best practices because you’ll be no better off.
Any good implementation needs great optimization, and that's why so many people come to us. In fact, Big Bang is proud that we have more support and rescue missions, meaning we have proven success fixing problems others couldn't.
Important ways to ensure a great NetSuite implementation:
With Big Bang consulting services, you’re not just getting the technical knowledge to implement Oracle NetSuite – we partner with your team every step of the way to drive results.
As your implementation partner, you can expect:
Leveraging best practices for Oracle NetSuite and your industry’s challenges.
We advise, configure, and work alongside you as the customer to test and validate on an ongoing basis throughout the development.
Customization of best-of-breed ERP software that is personalized to your business needs.
Full collaboration between the implementation team and your team.
Close collaboration between partner and customer throughout the implementation process.
Solution architects to create the right solution to drive results and growth for your company.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does an implementation take?
How much does an implementation cost?
What are my implementation options?
A NetSuite implementation can take anywhere from 4 weeks to a couple of months to half a year, depending on the project’s scale. Accurate timelines are scoped out at the beginning of the project so that the business can accommodate, adapt, or expect accordingly. Our goal is to implement NetSuite as quickly as possible while managing the potential risks while changing systems and business processes. When a consulting firm takes too long to implement, the benefits are hard to achieve since the ROI (including time invested by your team) needs to be recouped.
There is the base cost that depends on the size of the project. And adding on extra modules and third-party apps and connectors above the base will come at an additional cost. But often, this doesn’t have to come all at once. We can work with you to determine the priority level for all features and build a customized plan, including pricing, based on your IT strategy and growth goals.
Perhaps you have only a very basic accounting system that does only fundamental transactions like bills, invoices, and financial statements, and you require a new ERP solution implementation. Or perhaps through recent years of growth, your ERP system has amounted to so many customizations and has become too robust and cumbersome to function optimally, and you require a rescue mission. As your implementation partner, we assess the best option that is unique to your needs, an ERP system that links your organization’s transactions from start to end. With NetSuite there is a SuiteSuccess option, which includes a prebuilt system leveraging industry best practices and can take your organization from zero to cloud, in 100 days or less.
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