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The Monthly Momentum

June 2024 | All the latest scoop on the FIET Project...

📰 Welcome back to The Monthly Momentum!

The Monthly Momentum is your monthly update on the FMMI Intelligent Enterprise Transformation (FIET) Project progress.

This month, we’re introducing the What’s Changing Guide! Read on to learn details about the FMMI changes coming your way.

Guide Me! What’s Changing?

Last week, we published the What's Changing Guide, a comprehensive document detailing each change end users will notice in FMMI upon the system upgrade. Remember, everything in FMMI is staying the same until February 2025! We’re communicating these changes early to allow users plenty of time to prepare.

The What’s Changing Guide is organized into four Key Change Impact sections:

✨ Fiori: the fresh, app-based user interface

📊 Simplified Data Model: the consolidation of data tables to a single Universal Journal

☂️ Business Partner Records: customers and vendors will sit under the new Business Partner umbrella, capturing and maintaining data for customers and vendors together

📑 Reporting: a few fields in reports will be adjusted while the overall process will remain largely the same

Within each section, you’ll find more information about what these changes mean, how they benefit users, and, most importantly, what each change means for you. The bulk of the What’s Changing Guide consists of tables with the following segments:

• Today: description of current state FMMI in ECC
• Tomorrow: description of future state FMMI in S/4HANA
• What does this mean for you?: description of how today and tomorrow are different
• Groups Impacted: specific roles, process areas, and/or teams that will be impacted by a change

Financial Training Forum

FMS is proud to present the Financial Training Forum, a series of virtual sessions available to all USDA employees. Spread over two weeks and featuring a variety of topics, there’s something for everyone.

💰 Week 1: 7/23 – 7/25: Financial Management topics

💲 Week 2: 7/30 – 8/1: FIET topics

Keep an eye out for the Financial Training Forum announcement from FMS. Details including schedule and registration instructions will also be provided in next month’s newsletter.

THE FUTURE OF FIET: Roadmap & Vision Updates

As we navigate the dynamic landscape of the FIET Project, this monthly roadmap is designed to provide you with a clear view of our current focus, and where we plan to go in the coming weeks and months.

📍 Transparency and Collaboration: We encourage each team member to review the roadmap and ask questions to help ensure we are sharing the right level of detail for our FIET stakeholders.

Follow our progress with the FIET Project Roadmap:

Key upcoming dates and milestones to pay special attention to include:

• This month! – Super Users will continue to be involved in test script development review as System Integration Testing 1 (SIT 1) progresses.
• July 2024 – Virtual FIET informational sessions will be held during Week 2 of the Financial Training Forum (7/30 – 8/1).
• Winter 2024 – We will begin to launch training in Winter 2024 to provide a couple of months for end users to review training before go-live.
• February 2025 – FMMI upgrade go-live!

FACES OF FIET: Key Player Spotlight

Each month, get to know the devoted minds driving FIET’s success. Each edition will spotlight one of the individuals who make our team extraordinary. Learn about their roles, experiences, and what fuels their excitement for FIET.

Meet FIET Project key player, Kourtney Peters! How long have you been with USDA/FMS? I’ve been with USDA for 28 years this month. What is your role in OCFO/FMS? I am a Customer Account Manager, documentation editor/author/administrator, and trainer in the Directives and Training Branch. What is your role on the FIET Project? I’m the USDA/FMS lead for the Organizational Change Management (OCM) workstream.

What are you most excited about regarding FIET or S/4HANA? I’m very excited to be part of the communications and training team for the upgrade. It gives me an opportunity to leverage my customer service experience and long-standing customer relationships to make this a smooth and successful transition. Working on the FIET project drives home how important knowledge management is across USDA. Kourtney and her children, Camille and Rowan

What are you currently reading/watching, and are you enjoying it? I just finished reading four books by Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors, Dry, Lust and Wonder, and Toil and Trouble (very funny memoirs!), as well as a spooky novel by Alex North, The Shadows. What is something you’ve always wanted to try or learn? I want to re-learn how to play the piano! I was pretty good at it in high school, but stopped practicing in college and lost that skill. Kourtney and her grandson, Giovanni What does your ideal weekend look like? New Orleans always has something fun to do! I love going to festivals, concerts, art fairs, and trying new restaurants.

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