Go-live : Day -1

29- Jan -2010: Saturday : Reached office by 8:30 AM. Had conf call about the status, so far everything is on track (All Friday night every one from client team worked for closing legacy system and data extraction). We are supposed to start loading into Oracle at 10.00 AM. We got all the files by 9.00 AM. Rahul started validating customer price lists with the help of Anant ,we found some duplicates. Asked Steve / Elaine to fix the duplicates and re-extract the data . They gave another file at 11.00 AM. meanwhile we validated other files customers, sites, relationships , on hand etc.

Naveen brought Lunch from Chiptole. Jenna, Karuna and Bobby were also there. Jenna and Karuna were helping Kevin to enter new items.

We again found duplicates in customer price lists. Steve / Elaine working on that . It's 12:30 PM but they haven't figure out about the duplicates. I proposed to start loading customers and deal with the fall outs later, to save time. Everyone agreed.

We started loading customers at 1 PM ,it finished fairly quickly at 2 PM. We have the new file of cusotmer price lists by 2 PM. We loaded that and followed by On hand . It was 5 PM by the time we finished Customer price lists, customers and on hand. We almost catched up the lost time.

We fixed the fall outs from all the above conversions and closed sales orders started around 6 and finished by 8 PM. Had dinner from Pad Thai (Duck joke) and I started Data collection in net refresh and EP sales refresh program. Everything finished by 9:30 PM. Karuna fixing Vendor contract errors and was waiting on that to finish before starting open sales orders. Meanwhile Rahul loaded open purchase orders and me, Rahul and Jenna worked on fixing open SO errors. we made lot of changes to data to make it work.

Around 11 PM , Karuna found some issues with Vendor contracts and she was in discussion with Kalyani to fix those. I was waiting for those to be fixed. Around 11:30 Naveen, Bobby and Jenna left home . Rahul left around mid night. I was still waiting on Karuna. I started to load some vendor contracts with Karuna to expedite the process. At latst around 1 AM we started open sales orders and I drove back home and went to bed at 2 AM.

I was excited and it was a great day.