Movado Group Inc.

Keeping Watch for Movado

In Movado’s legacy ERP system, a user could start out with incomplete or incorrect data and fix it along the way. SAP^® requires complete accuracy with master data from the beginning. These exacting standards were a whole new world for Movado. A world that would change the way the company handles their new internal business processes.

A critical part of this transition for Dr. Frank Morelli, SVP Global Business Process & CIO of Movado, was the management of the company’s data.

Documentation while managing the data through this change was also a priority. Movado would be under tremendous scrutiny because of the scope and reach of the implementation. It was imperative that documented evidence of control checks be available. The requirements for documentation of specifications, transports, change management, testing and validations were above and beyond anything you could imagine. Morelli explains, “There were valid concerns about moving an entire company’s worth of data all at once, worldwide, changing every major business process and running the company on all new software. We were moving fast and the documentation was important.”

Understanding that preparation before go-live and execution of maintenance afterwards could take away much of the unnecessary challenges with the upcoming move to the new ERP system, Frank was looking for a solution.