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Is your ERP data ready to migrate?

Answer ten questions about ownership, duplicates, BOMs, stock, open orders, pricing, reporting, rehearsals, sign-off and legacy access. You get a score out of 20, a band (Ready, At risk or Not ready) and a next step for each weak area. It takes about five minutes.

Published by Digital Adaption. Written by Matty Hatton. Everything runs in your browser: nothing you tick is sent, saved or tracked. Last reviewed on 25 October 2026.

1 Data ownership

Does every data object (customers, suppliers, items, BOMs, open orders) have a named owner who can make decisions?

2 Duplicate customers, suppliers and items

Have you counted and resolved duplicate customers, suppliers and items in the legacy data?

3 BOM and routing accuracy

Have your bills of materials and routings been checked against what the shop floor actually does?

4 Stock reconciliation

Can you tie physical stock, system stock and the ledger together, with an agreed valuation basis?

5 Open orders and work in progress

Do you have written rules for which open sales orders, purchase orders and jobs migrate and which close out first?

6 Pricing and terms

Are prices, discounts, payment terms and supplier terms current and agreed with their owners?

7 Reporting definitions

Are the key reports (sales, margin, backlog, stock value) defined in writing so the new system can reproduce them?

8 Test loads and rehearsals

Are at least two full test loads planned, with a reconciliation and a fix list after each?

9 Sign-off process

Is it agreed who signs off the migrated data, against which reconciliation, and what happens if a difference is found?

10 Legacy system access

Can you reliably extract from the legacy systems, with someone who understands them available until after cutover?

Quick answer

Your ERP data is ready to migrate when every data object has an owner, duplicates and BOMs have been fixed at source, stock and open orders reconcile to finance, at least two rehearsals have been run, and someone has agreed to sign the numbers off. This check scores those ten things out of 20 so you can see where the gaps are before you commit to a cutover date.

How is the score worked out?

Be honest rather than hopeful. If you are not sure, answer Partly. Weak areas are listed with the lowest scores first, each with a guide to read next.

What if you score Not ready or At risk?

Start with the weakest areas and the practical guide linked from each. If you would like an independent view, the Data Readiness Review is a fixed 5 to 10 day piece of work that produces a source inventory, a data quality issue register, a reconciliation checklist, an owner matrix and a prioritised fix plan. It is quoted as a fixed price after a 30-minute call. You can also read why ERP data migrations fail.

Book a 30-minute data risk call

Is my data sent anywhere?

No. The check runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent, stored or tracked by the tool, and there is no email capture.

What does the score mean?

Each of the 10 questions scores 0 (No), 1 (Partly) or 2 (Yes), giving a total out of 20. 16 to 20 is Ready, 9 to 15 is At risk and 0 to 8 is Not ready. It is a prompt for conversation, not an audit.

Can it tell me whether my migration will succeed?

No. It tells you where the common failure points are likely to be. Real data, real totals and real reconciliations are the evidence, which is what a readiness review looks at.

Does it apply to any ERP?

Yes. The questions are vendor-neutral and apply to a move onto Infor LN, Dynamics, SAP, Sage or any other ERP.

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