Dynamics 365 Finance QuickStart: 16-week Implementation

Businesses struggle with poor visibility on financial period closing progress, unreliable reporting, complex sub-ledger reconciliation, manual and error-prone vendor invoicing, delayed vendor payments and time-consuming bank reconciliation. Now more than ever, teams need an advance, scalable finance application that provides the capabilities essential for a growing business.

Hitachi Solutions' streamlined implementation of Dynamics 365 Finance can help your team experience transformative benefits in just 16 weeks.

Our Approach:

Week 1 to 4: Inception and Elaboration Analysis: Use our curated set of business scenario documents as a foundation and work with our consultants to convert these into your business specific scenarios. CRP: See how the out-of-box solution works to identify potential gaps. Blueprint: Develop a detailed project plan and timeline to deliver the project.

Week 5 to 8: Construction Customization: In the allotted budget of 120 dev hours, we develop customer invoices, remittance advices, or any other reports. Configuration: Our team works with you to configure the gold environment. Data migration: We import core Dynamics 365 Finance related masters and opening balances.

Week 9 to 14: Transition Key user training: We train your key users to independently use D365 Finance, provide session and task recordings. User acceptance testing: Your team test the system with their business scenarios. Cutover planning: We prepare cutover planning with you, do production deployment, and final master data migration.

Week 15 to 16: Operation Go live: We upload opening balances, 2 years of month-to-month ledger balances and you go live. Hypercare: We provide 2 weeks of Hypercare with our managed services team to guide you and close the project.

The Outcomes:

1. Comprehensive Financial Management: Configurable workflows and approval frameworks align your financial processes with industry’s best standards. Role-specific workspaces help your team focus on tasks relevant to their job requirements, ensuring they are on top of their deliverables.
2. Easy ledger sub-ledger reconciliation: Your financial reconciliation has become significantly easier with the out-of-box reconciliation reports and controls. Period closing is also faster and more transparent with clear tracking of open tasks and due date.
3. Automated AP processes: Vendor invoice processing has become fast and error-free with the invoice capture and payment process automation, saving numerous man-hours for you.
4. Automated bank reconciliation: Your bank reconciliation process has become faster with the Banks module’s strong matching rules, automatically reconciling bank statements with bank books.
5. Advanced Analytics and Reporting: Embedded BI dashboards and built-in analytics reports provide real-time insights from your data.
6. Security and Compliance: Your data is more secure with built-in security roles and compliance tools to help you meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive financial data.