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22    Lamborghini  Matthias Schlapp automotiveIT 2012 If our information is correct you clo sed the company an entire week for the actual conversion Laughs Yes that is correct But this should not be misunderstood That was actually the plan We had the option to do introduction in stages but we decided to go for a Big Bang version Lamborghini typi cally has a three week production break in August In terms of the timing we oriented ourselves to the break and we shut down the old system shortly beforehand To do this we brought a week with no production forward into July But that is associated with a certain amount of risk To bring it off the new ERP has to be ramped up problem free within a week That is right but we prepared very inten sively for this day for two years In prepa ration for the changeover we carried out about 1 500 functional and integration tests in the six months before the Big Bang Were they positive or negative tests Both At the outset we worked with posi tive tests in which we simulated operatio nal processes Toward the end of the test phase we went in the other direction and for example deliberately provoked errors in the input masks Then we know rela tively quickly where they are And the launch worked Go Live was on July 11 2011 and it was smooth My explanation would be incom Matthias Schlapp Since November 2011 Matthias Schlapp has ser ved as chief information officer at Italian sports car maker Lamborghini in Italy Before his ap pointment as CIO the 45 year old business ma nagement graduate worked for 10 years at a lea ding manufacturer of food service equipment and large kitchen technology In 2001 Schlapp mo ved to Audi to among other things manage the premium car maker s SAP Competence Center among other responsibilities at the automaker