"This revised timeline reflects the scale of the change, impacting over 20,000 users, and the need to ensure a safe, stable system with a reliable and accurate payroll, particularly for schools and term-time employees."
"In November 2019, the southern English authority, which manages a budget of around £2.3 billion annually, agreed to spend £2.6 million on moving off its legacy SAP system onto Oracle Fusion, a report to the committee said in 2024. It later decided it needed more suppliers to help change its business processes and reset the budget to £14.07 million."
"In January, documents released to a council committee show the expected use of funds from the sell-off is set to triple in the current financial year compared to a year earlier, up from £4 million in 2024/25 to £12 million in 2025/26."
West Sussex County Council has postponed its Oracle Fusion HR and payroll system implementation from April to October 2026, citing the scale of change affecting over 20,000 users and the need for system stability and accurate payroll processing. The project, intended to replace an aging SAP system, has experienced significant delays and cost overruns since its 2019 inception. Originally budgeted at £2.6 million in 2019, costs have ballooned to approximately £39 million. The council is funding the project using capital receipts from building sales, with allocations increasing from £4 million to £12 million in the current financial year. The finance and procurement component was deployed to 917 users in January following previous timeline revisions.
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