Project Updates
We are excited to announce some activities leading up to Rollout 1 (Finance / Supply Chain) implementation of INFORMS in April 2021. With your help, the INFORMS team has been busy with system configuration activities, data conversion, interface testing, and training development. Over the next few months, you will see several activities that will require your department’s assistance including System Readiness, Budget Hyperion Launch, End-to-End Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Training.
The following highlights are areas where your participation will be expected:
- The INFORMS Finance Soft Launch began December 2020 – this will include beginning year balances and monthly activities for October 2020 through March 2021 to prepare our go-live in April 2021. The Soft Launch is a very specific, contained and limited implementation of key General Ledger functionality specifically available to a small group of users
- Departments are conducting End-to-End testing of the INFORMS Supply Chain and Finance modules, using real-world scenarios that you have sent to the INFORMS project team. We want to make sure that you have ample time to thoroughly test the procurement, accounts payable, project costing (where applicable), billing and accounts receivable (where applicable), asset depreciation, and general ledger components of INFORMS
- In December 2020, training was provided on the new Hyperion budgeting processes for INFORMS, with a successful go-live on January 11. For the FY 21/22 budget process, we will use the new INFORMS Chart of Accounts (CoA)
- In addition to using the New Chart of Accounts (CoA) for Hyperion, the team will also be introducing a mapping of legacy Index Codes to the new CoA INFORMS values
- Departments will receive reports providing details of INFORMS information and instructions for viewing and requesting updates to the data. Special consideration should be noted relating newly defined departmental structures, grants, and project costing structures
- Provided for your reference is the new Chart of Accounts (CoA)
- The FAMIS to INFORMS Crosswalks for Sub-Object Code to Account, Sub-Fund to Fund and Index Code to Chart of Accounts (CoA) can be found via this link
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the INFORMS Team.
INFORMS is Miami-Dade County's new multi-year Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system. It will streamline and modernize our County's business processes and technologies so they operate more efficiently and support our policies. Learn more about each phase below.
