Since 1990 Meritocracy Ltd has been offering contracted consultancy services within the IT sector. Our main focus during that time has been the implementation and upgrade of large ERP systems. We work in both the public and commercial sectors and our client base in New Zealand and overseas shows the breadth of industries in which we have experience: o Finance : Barclays Capital (UK), Nedcor Bank (S.Africa), Norwich Union (UK)o Telecommunications : Cable and Wireless (UK), Jamaica Telephone Company (West Indies)o Manufacturing : Fonterra (New Zealand)o Retail : Briscos (New Zealand)o Public Sector / Government : Whangarei District Council, NorthTec, Watercare, Auckland City, Waitakere City, Auckland Regional Council, Auckland Transition Authority, Auckland Council (New Zealand)o Information Technology : The Dodge Group (UK)o Health : Eastman Dental Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Maudsley Hospital (UK)While the focus of our work is in the implementation and upgrade of ERP systems (predominantly Technology One and SAP) we have also conducted many business improvement projects, package and partner selections, requests for tender and new business cases.The People:Chris and Emma Boyce are the principle consultants at Meritocracy Ltd. We have worked in partnership with numerous management and technical consultancies over the years and are very proud of the quality of our work.Our consultants have a combined total of over 60 years experience in the IT sector and are able to fulfil the following roles/tasks:o General consultancy – package and partner Selection, product evaluation, solution architecture, business caseso Project management and team leadingo Business analysis and design – current and future systems and business improvemento Testing and test management – test scripting, execution and support through testing phases (system, integration and UAT)o Technical support – migration, product evaluation, reporting, interfaces and support desk.

Trilogy Project Details: Migration of an on premise Technology One ERP system to the Cloud - SaaS, IaaS. Winner of the LGFA Award for Transforming Service Delivery.Roles & Responsibilities: Evaluation of new One Council system. Functional consultant responsible for the implementation of the new HRP Ci Anywhere ESS functionality. Technical Details: Technology One Finance & HRP (CES) and Property and Rating.

Project: Information Management and ReportingProject: Produce Business Case for HRP system replacement.

Project Details: Large SAP implementation programme to replace legacy systems covering customer, rates and valuations, consents and licensing from the old Auckland district and city councils to the new Auckland Council. Roles & Responsibilities: Team lead responsible for the data migration and reconciliation of council services from over twenty legacy systems to a new application suite. Designed the data migration strategy and developed, built and tested a proof of concept. Conducted workshops with business stakeholders to gather detailed data requirements. Profiled legacy data and produced migration specifications for the build teams. Tested the migration hub and loaded and reconciled source and target customer, licensing, rates, property and financial data.Technical Details: Legacy Systems - Pathway, PeopleSoft, Hanson, Tech One, Enviroverse, Bars, Oracle, QV System. Data Migration Hub - EDW, WhereScape, SAP - BODS & Information Steward. Target Systems - SAP ERP - CRM & PSCD, EDW. SQL Server & ALM.

Position Details: Acting Finance Manager for Community Development Arts and Culture Group.Roles & Responsibilities: Managing a large team responsible for purchasing, procurement, invoicing, revenue administration, contract management and grant sponsorship funding coordination. Implementing financial control changes and business improvement following group restructure. Technical Details: SAP-FI/CO/SRM/MM

Project Details: SAP ERP Implementation.Roles & Responsibilities: Data migration – assisted with the testing, mapping, load and reconciliation of master data, opening balances, purchase orders and fixed assets. Delivered training and produced process documentation. Provided support and resolved issues during go-live phase. Implemented enhancements and re-engineered business processes after go-live.Technical Details: SAP-FI/CO/PS/PM/MM

Project Details: SAP ERP Implementation - Winner of the 2011 SAP Awards of Excellence - Best ERP ImplementationRoles & Responsibilities: The development, testing, data migration, UAT, training and support of the region-wide ‘purchase to pay’ system (SAP SRM-PPS). Design and development of a resource related billing solution (SD). Engaged business SME’s and senior management and provided business knowledge to partner consultants to facilitate system design. Technical Details: SAP Procurement for Public Sector SRM-PPS, SAP-MM/WF/SD, HPQC.

Project Details: SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) implementation. SAP Support Consultant. PTP Business Process Reengineering.Roles & Responsibilities: Production of training materials for the PM system. Leading the unit, system and integration testing. Provided ongoing application support for SAP users (Finance, HR and Payroll business units). Team lead responsible for scope, plan, design, data migration, test and build of reengineered Procure to Pay process including extensive workflow. Technical Details: SAP-PM/FI/CO/MM/HR/Payroll, BI, BPS & Workflow, HPQC.

Project Details: SAP ECC implementation FI/CO/AP/MM/PS with Deloitte as partner. Comprehensive workflow implementation. Single phase go-live with over 200 users.Roles & Responsibilities: Configuration of FI/CO/AP. Design and build of extensive workflow for purchase order and invoice approval. System build, testing, UAT of SAP modules and interfaces. Documentation and user training. Support and problem solving during go-live phase. Technical Details: SAP FI/CO/MM ECC, Workflow, Portal and TRIM integrated with MS Products.

Project Details: SAP retail implementation FI/CO/AP/MM for major multi-company retail stores, head office and distribution centre. Roles & Responsibilities: Documentation of business processes and system steps within SAP. System and build testing.Technical Details: SAP ECC and SAP Retail Store.

Project Details: BPR project for Democracy ServicesRoles & Responsibilities: Designing, facilitating, and documenting business process workshops and one-on-one interviews to examine the current Democracy Services processes. Reporting progress to managers and identifying, tracking and escalating project risks. Analysing and designing more effective processes and producing the To-Be documentation. Communicating the design principals to key members of staff and obtaining sign off. Technical Details: SAP and FileNet integrated with MS Products.

Project Details: Implementation of global financial software to provide daily management, financial and regulatory reports for the bank. Implementation of SAP’s FI/CO/AP modules and over 50 interfaces with front and back office trading systems. Over 300 users in UK, US, Europe & Far East.Roles & Responsibilities: Team lead for package selection – compilation, documentation and design of business scenarios, software and vendor evaluation and short listing, extensive work-shopping scenarios with Oracle, Peoplesoft and SAP. Analysis, design, build and testing of interfaces and data migration engine utilising Mercator, ABAP IDOC and ALE technologies. Design and build of product system interfaces and reporting facilities. Configuration, system and integration testing of SAP-FI/CO and interfaces. Technical Details: SAP-FI/CO/AP, Oracle DB, Digital OS, ABAP, Mercator.

Project Details: Implementation of head office financial systems and interface, collecting and aggregating over two million banking transactions daily, enabling production of multi-dimensional management summaries, and weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual management and financial reports. Roles & Responsibilities: Master data and opening balance data migration and reconciliation back to source systems. Key coordinator between IT and business staff regarding all aspects of interface development, testing and implementation. Documenting current and required business processes using structured methodology. Development and execution of automated testing modules for financial applications & interfaces. System testing of financials and support during go-live including development of problem resolution software and support desk.Technical Details: Dodge (Financials), Digital, Oracle DB, MS Windows, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Project Details: Implementation of financial systems including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Reporting, Forecasting & Payroll interface system, for Jamaica’s largest company.Roles & Responsibilities: Documentation of current and required business processes. Development and installation of forecasting and budget system for the finance department. Training of employees to use and develop systems and reports utilising the FOCUS 4GL. Design and development of Payroll interface to the general ledger. System testing, support and problem resolution during go-live phase. Technical Details: FOCUS, Oracle DB, Digital VAX, MS Windows, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint.

Employment Details: Working with a number of clients, in and around London, during the implementation of financial systems, including Inventory Management, Purchasing, General, Payables and Sales ledgers. Clients included the Ministry of Defence (EASAMS), Eastman Dental Hospital, Bethlem & Maudsley Hospital and Tolemans Transporters.Roles & Responsibilities: Assisting clients in all aspects of financial systems implementation including configuration, testing, parallel run and go-live. Most projects included developing supplementary reporting and processing systems using Powerhouse 4GL. Both hospital implementations included the computerisation of their paper based stock control departments & training of their staff.Technical Details: Powerhouse, Oracle DB, Digital VAX, Data General, MS Windows, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint.

Employment Details: Software development of accountancy, purchasing, inventory management and sales order processing systems. Marketing and implementation of these systems.Roles & Responsibilities: Promoted from Analyst Programmer to Team Leader, while developing the software detailed above. Utilised structured design techniques to develop systems using Powerhouse 4GL. Managed the development of the stock control systems. Provided sales support and pre & post implementation consultancy to a broad spectrum of clients. Technical Details: Powerhouse, Oracle DB, Digital VAX, Data General, MS Windows, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint.

Employment Details: Software house for accountancy & land development/appraisal software for the construction industry.Roles & Responsibilities: Initially involved with the maintenance and new releases of the accountancy software produced by the company. Progressed to the development of construction industry software. Later seconded to the IBM side of the company, to develop reports using FOCUS (Ramis II).Technical Details: Business Basic, FOCUS, Data General, IBM.