This monthly newsletter is designed to deliver information about activities and progress around amplify – the BW Corporate Equipment ERP Transformation. 

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You'll see we've shifted the format this month. Instead of our usual People, Process, Technology structure, we're letting the field tell the story — because something worth sharing is happening across many locations.

Head Office: Steady for August 3 Go-Live

Head Office remains the near-term priority. With User Acceptance Testing complete, the team has now shifted its focus to cutover activities. Head Office is still tracking to go live on August 3, and a significant share of the team’s energy will remain concentrated there in the weeks leading up to go-live. 

Alongside go-live preparation, the formal change control process has now launched. Because the production environment is the version the business will run on, any updates to it must be requested, reviewed, and approved before they are made. This creates an important checkpoint to ensure changes are intentional, tracked, and do not unintentionally disrupt work that has already been tested and approved.

Green Bay/Lenexa: Leadership and Consultants Evaluating Timelines

Defining the optimal new go-live date for Green Bay/Lenexa involves ensuring that all aspects of the solution are thoroughly validated before final UAT and training. This planning is underway and the team will share an update once the new HSO consultants have had an opportunity to make their review and recommendations. In the meantime, the next round of Converting Land is already taking shape, with a focus on Project module activities in D365. During the June Change Champion meeting, Janel Falk and Stacey Ferry demonstrated scenarios like creating a customer equipment project, setting up a project cost control budget, and building the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for both sub-projects and header projects. You can see these new videos soon on the Viva Engage Amplify site!

Lucca: Building Readiness on the Ground

The OCM team conducted on-site change impact interviews at the Lucca pilot site June 16–17, engaging 22 participants across six functional areas. The findings will be compiled into a detailed Change Impact Analysis writeup, and executive and working-level presentation decks for leadership. 

The clearest theme to emerge: D365 functionality has been demonstrated to the business, but process ownership still needs to be defined. 

In parallel, 11 Lucca leaders participated in the Leader Readiness Kickoff Workshop on June 17, including interactive exercises designed to surface and work through resistance patterns before they show up at go-live.  Leaders used persona-based exercises to map the five known resistance patterns (lack of awareness, change in role, fear of the unknown, absent leadership, and lack of involvement) to the Guiding Principles of Change, and learned several tools to better communicate change with their teams. While Amplify is the obvious example for leading through change, the skills learned can apply to any change the organization may work through. 

Thank you for the hospitality, Lucca! Alla prossima, Lucca — grazie per l'ospitalità! 

Keep Connected! 

This newsletter, our Viva community, and the amplify SharePoint, are designed to provide regular communication to keep you informed. In addition, we encourage you to email amplify@barry-wehmiller.com with questions or feedback.