Agenda item

Joint report of the Chamberlain and Chief People Officer.

The Committee received a report of the Chief People Officer and the Chamberlain concerning an update on the progress made on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Programme.

The Committee received a presentation on the latest progress of the ERP Programme, which included a change matrix that demonstrated solution complexity and eventual recommendations to matters arising from the project.

During the discussion, a Member was interested in the effect that resourcing for the ERP Programme on HR. The Member was advised that while there were other large programmes that HR were working on, centralised HR was currently in a positive space in terms of balancing their resources. There was some difficulty with resourcing and backfilling in the institutions which were currently being worked through.

A question was raised about whether the schedule for the ERP Programme would be impacted by the date of Ambition25 being deferred due to the data cleansing issues. The response was that Ambition25 project had demonstrated the data quality was not at the required level, and the level of correction was higher than anticipated. The challenge was to ensure the data from Ambition25 remained up to date while transferring to the new ERP system.

The Committee sought and were provided reassurance that the “adopt not adapt” mantra was being followed in the ERP Programme.

RESOLVED – That the report be received, and its contents noted.