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Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration

Reconciliation and cutover

Lesson 161 of 175 · 3 min

What must reconcile: headcount by legal employer, by country, by department, by assignment status, plus FTE totals, plus counts of each work relationship type. Those last two matter because they catch different errors — FTE catches part-time and concurrent assignment mistakes that a headcount will not. HR signs the reconciliation, not IT. They are the ones who know the number should be one thousand two hundred and forty-seven and not one thousand two hundred and fifty-one. IT can confirm that what was in the file is now in the system; only HR can confirm that what was in the file was right. Those are different questions, and only one of them is about the migration. Build the reconciliation pack during design, not at cutover. At three in the morning you want to be filling a template in, not designing one. The cutover sequence: freeze legacy, final extract, load structures, load

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In this module: Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration

  1. 1Migration strategy: what to bringFree preview
  2. 2The loading toolset
  3. 3File structure and business objects
  4. 4Your first load
  5. 5The workforce structures load sequenceFree preview
  6. 6Loading workers
  7. 7Spreadsheet Data Loader
  8. 8Diagnosing failures
  9. 9Reconciliation and cutover
  10. 10What breaks
  11. 11Lab: migrate the workforce and reconcile it