Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the largest home furnishings store in North America, selling furniture, flooring, appliances and electronics. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska with store locations in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa.
NFM selected Trissential to plan and execute its JD Edwards (JDE) EnterpriseOne upgrade. They chose Trissential for its cultural fit, flexible and collaborative nature, and ability to provide deep technical and functional business process and program management.
NFM was challenged with upgrading to JDE EnterpriseOne 9.0 from a highly customized version of JDE Xe on a limited budget. The leadership team wanted to utilize its internal team as much as possible, while learning and leveraging capabilities of the new software. They also required the use of Agile project methodology, and wanted to maintain the integration to a custom, in-house enterprise resource planning and reporting system.
- Trissential led an upgrade planning workshop that laid the groundwork for the scope, approach and project plan, allowing NFM to manage the day-to-day project tasks
- The upgrade project leveraged team members from five disparate groups into one cohesive team using Agile methodology
- The Trissential team provided Net Change training to educate, prioritize and plan for new capabilities and business processes
- Trissential’s Essentialists offered deep JDE business process and functional expertise to guide business process improvement and quality assurance
- Technology training, guidance and managed services were provided throughout the initiative
The end result of NFM’s EnterpriseOne 9.0 upgrade was a successful project that went live on time and on budget with a high level of business satisfaction and no surprises. The project also laid the groundwork for a supply chain transformation initiative.