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In an ERP implementation,  Believe it or not, this can be defining part while shifting from your old system to new system. If you get this right, then you won the half battle ! (well, don't be happy, still half to be won !). 

Anyway, as you may have located you products into different locations, then first of all configure those locations, and provide your opening inventory and right valuation in those locations. Make sure that these steps must be done with such timing, that when you start working with new system, you should have 99.99% accurate data of those. (we are not saying 100%, as in large company, it is near to impossible ! If you are SME, then that figure has to be 100%). If you missed the trick here, then whole time, you will be pacing back and forth, adjusting your inventory and trust me, that will be very very frustrating!!. So make sure that you get these steps done correctly.

We can say that this can be one of the toughest part, because here you are interacting with those guys, who are used to work effectively with your old system. And suddenly they have to start from scratch, and that too with new environment!!. Certainly it will not be easy for them to accept new things. So you need to either encourage them (or if required, force them) to accept new things, because their support is very much required. And there will be situation, when well trained employee leaves, and for the new one, you have to start all over again, and if your business is susceptible for such thing, then you need a permanent solution for that. Stuffs like reading document and go through system, may not make their way easier, where else props like video tutorials (divided into small portions of large process) will make stuff much easier, and will also take burden off your shoulder !

Company with large number of system user are concern with security issues. Limited access should be given to particular group of employee. For each process in ERP, you can define different hierarchy of security level, and based on that, allocated those to users. This will restrict user to move around into unnecessary parts of system, and it will reduce the chance for anything that goes wrong, as well as critical data been leaked.