If you remember from previous blogs, the go-live date for the P2P transition was August 23. Well, that was yesterday and it was a very smooth transition. After weeks of hard work and overtime hours, it was all worth it and they turned off the old SAP instance, centered in Greenville, South Carolina, and turned on the new Lockheed Martin Procure to Pay instance.
These last couple weeks weren't easy though. As expected, our workload increased significantly as we came closer to the go-live date. The role request changes came pouring in, averaging 40 a day, 1200 in total. My team also directed most of our time to issue analysis and resolution, handling the P2P mailbox and answering any questions that came in. I also found myself on the phone often. Many times people prefer to talk to an actual person instead of emailing, so I was helping people in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and California determine what roles they would need in the new system and what training they needed to take based on their job function. I was even on a conference call with a group of Lockheed employees at the NORAD headquarters in the Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.
After all this hard work, it was a relief when the system went online smoothly. We were rewarded with an end of summer thank-you lunch with several senior managers (which was interrupted by the earthquake). Among all this activity, we were still able to organize another service event, this time collecting school supplies for needed students around the area.
At the end of the summer, after an internship, Lockheed interns usually make a presentation to upper management. Last summer, do to travel restraints, I was unable to do this. This summer, I have the opportunity to present to the Controller of the Information Systems and Global Solutions division of Lockheed Martin, who is two levels away from the CFO of Lockheed Martin.
I'll let you know how it goes in my last blog! Wish me luck!