Migrate from proALPHA ERP to Infor CloudSuite Corporate

proALPHA stores Customers and Vendors as distinct partner records with address, contact, classification codes, and payment terms. We map these to Infor Cloudsuite Industrial's Customer and Supplier entities. Address book integration in Infor requires that address records be imported first as address entities before linking to Customer or Supplier. Partner-specific classification codes from proALPHA map to Infor's Customer or Supplier Type codes, which are configured during migration setup.

proALPHA Items include product masters with BOMs, routings, and variant configurations in a single object. Infor Cloudsuite Industrial separates these: Product2 holds the base product, Bill of Materials defines the component hierarchy, and Routing defines the operation sequence. We decompose proALPHA's multi-level BOMs and product configurator data into these three related structures. Variant-driven order processing from proALPHA's configurator maps to Infor's product configurator with setup data that may require manual re-entry for complex variants.

proALPHA maintains a structured COA with cost centers and department assignments. We map account types, posting keys, and cost center hierarchies to Infor's COA structure. German localization data (SKR03 or SKR04) from proALPHA must be reconciled against Infor's industry-specific chart templates during the migration database setup phase. Any proALPHA custom account segments require additional configuration in Infor's segment ledger.

proALPHA Work Orders and Production Orders carry operation sequences, work center assignments, material allocations, and APS scheduling constraints. We extract order status, material allocations, backflush records, and the APS constraint data as a separate reference table. Infor Cloudsuite Industrial Manufacturing Orders receive the core order data; APS-specific fields (bottleneck detection results, alternate resource suggestions) are preserved in a custom reference object for the customer's planning team to re-enter manually into Infor's scheduling engine, as APS data models differ between platforms.

proALPHA Fixed Asset records include acquisition cost, depreciation schedules, useful life data, and location assignments integrated into financial management. We preserve depreciation methods and useful life data during migration and flag any assets with non-standard depreciation profiles for manual verification in Infor's Fixed Asset module before the financial period closes.

Outstanding payables and receivables carry payment terms, due dates, and partial allocations. We extract open items at a fixed cutover timestamp and map them to Infor's open invoice or ledger records. The cutover sequence is critical: we freeze proALPHA writes, extract the open item snapshot, load into Infor, then close the period in proALPHA to prevent duplicate postings. Vendor and customer balances must reconcile against the extracted open items before Infor go-live.

Historical transactions spanning multiple fiscal years may use deprecated formats in long-running proALPHA instances. We scope which fiscal years to migrate based on customer reporting requirements and flag records with incompatible data types for archive rather than live migration. Very old entries (typically beyond the statutory retention period or beyond what Infor's reporting needs require) are recommended for archive rather than active migration.

Stock quantities, locations, lot and serial numbers from proALPHA's multi-location planning structure require mapping to Infor's warehouse hierarchy. proALPHA multi-site inventory records may span organizational units; we consolidate or split locations based on the destination warehouse structure defined during Infor's implementation. Lot and serial traceability data migrates to Infor's lot and serial tracking tables.

proALPHA's integrated document management stores binary files linked to business objects (Customers, Items, Work Orders). Documents themselves do not export through standard data extraction. We extract document metadata and file references, then perform a parallel file transfer operation to Infor IDM, mapping file references to the corresponding Customer, Supplier, Product, or Manufacturing Order record in Infor. Any binary files that cannot be matched to a destination record are flagged for manual attachment after migration.

proALPHA supports user-defined fields per module, but naming conventions and data types vary by customer instance. We document every custom field encountered during the discovery scan, map each to Infor's custom field layer (User-Defined Fields or extension tables depending on the Infor edition), and note any data type mismatches that require transformation logic. This mapping is done per-customer because there is no stable global schema for proALPHA custom properties.

Infor's Migration Utility requires that prerequisite tax parameters and billing codes exist in the destination system before master data can be imported. proALPHA tax codes, VAT settings, and billing classification codes must be manually entered into Infor forms or mapped to predefined Infor values before the migration utility sequence runs. We identify every prerequisite code during discovery and scope manual setup or mapping configuration before data import begins.