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Blueprint Phase Analysis:

All SAP business Blueprints should enable the business and all key stakeholders to understands what solution is, and what it could look like.

“who approved that as a solution?”

You would be surprised at how many times sentences like that are repeated following the review of an implemented solution, or during defect resolution. It’s a well known fact that there are several ways you can implement any solution. Sadly that includes a right way and conversely the wrong way. The need to have the right calibre of Advisor who can guide you through your requirement and steer you in the right direction prior to build within a reasonable time is higher than ever now. Our Academy Certified Consultants with years of industry experience are able to Design SAP best principled Solutions in addition to your Company best practices to create stable designs bespoke to your needs. We can help Build, Test, support all your key processes to ensure that they adhere to the original requirements and also to add necessary value by pointing out any discrepancies or sub optimal designs.

Prepare Design Build

Sometimes there just aren’t clear, concise captured requirements. These things happen.

“But why was it built like that?”
“We didn’t quite know what the End process would look like.”

The business may not be fully aware of the impact of the proposed design, coupled with the fact that the consultant and developer are sometimes faced with the constant changing of requirements especially for difficult business processes. What gets delivered may differ slightly to what was understood as a firm requirement. It is really of the upmost importance to have consultants that know the industry standard, who can help put in place very concrete base lines from which all new requirements can be compared to. We can help Discover and research new technologies plus Review your business processes and requirements, ensuring your project has real traceability from captured requirements to build requirements. It is a real positive for ensuring correct Project build definition and making sure time and budgetary constraints are met.

Realise Test

Once the business requirements, and perceived gaps are captured and built, the Test phases must be executed to correctly to ensure compliance to the original requirements.

“This just wasn’t tested adequately before Go live.”

We can help with the test approach, Test Plan definition, scenarios, conditions, cases, and scripts, make sure your test plan covers all the business requirements that are to be delivered. Contact us to discuss your various test stages, be it Unit Tests, User acceptance, Stress Testing or automated testing.

Training

Make sure your users spend time doing their jobs efficiently by being trained by People that know SAP and your business well. We can work with your Subject Matter Expert (SME) to make sure everyone is building their skills set and confidence in the new system quickly. The training phases in most projects is usually challenging and a very underrated phase, Avoid generic training, and courses that mean your users spend an inappropriate amount of time trying to follow difficult training material.

We can efficiently create, and develop Tailored bespoke materials, based on your requirements as well as best industry practices. Let our Content developers and Trainers improve that critical link between what has been designed and built, to how it will be utilised by the end users. Any decrease in knowledge or content in this phase will result in sub optimal usage and application of your SAP system. Using OUR best SAP Practice Services. We can optimize your training requirements.

Cutover

We understand that transitioning from your legacy ERP system to a new SAP system is quite a challenge. Detailing a unique cutover plan that captures all the activities related to the build, planning, preparation and execution of critical business tasks, required to close a legacy system down, ready the system from a Functional and technical perspective, completing operational readiness and handing it over to the newly trained users simply is time consuming and complex.

We can help develop or review any key cutover activities for instance:

Define and mock execute your no “fly zone"

Validate that required license have been granted

Validate infrastructure completeness

Validation of client settings

Review and Validate Transport Requests content and Migration

Validate completeness of build

System Design and Build Readiness

Security User access and Authorization

Master Data and Legacy Open Data Objects Migration

Validate and schedule background and mandatory jobs

Validate the RFC / API Connections between external systems

Post Go-Live Process

Deployment Run & Deploy

We understand that after the Go live phase a new support organisation may have to step in to fill the void left by the outgoing implementation team. Sometimes there is a gap in knowledge, and a decline in the consistency and support required at this critical phase. If you require onsite presence to help incident resolution and critical guidance, please let us know.

Enhancements

With our expert knowledge, we can review any Solution design and build, make recommendations and improvements, advice, work with and train up individual teams so that all new business processes are critically reviewed and aligned with the capabilities of your new SAP environment.

Tickets

We like to think we can and solve most level of tickets, thus allowing you to get all the advantages and benefits from the time effort and resources poured into the previous phases of your Project.

Continuous Improvements

An SAP ERP implementation is not a one-off event that is completed once the go live phase is done.

The system must be stabilized after the initial go live, and then it must start evolving to support new business trends and other processes driven by emerging key technologies.

These new Processes need to be identified, documented and built upon, plus there will be critical support packages and updates required to the system over the on coming years.

Depending on which deployment you have undertaken these support packages are automatically applied by SAP otherwise you bear the responsibility of conducting these periodic upgrades yourself.

Remember Once an ERP system stops evolving, then it can easily become outdated and difficult to use, thus causing issues, there is also must likely have been an Introduction of adhoc unapproved manual alternatives, like Excel and Word solutions to bypass any perceived weakness in you SAP ERP system over the years.

Essentially the system has been configured to your specific requirements when it was designed and rolled out but several years later and your business requirements will have changed due evolution of events, BUT your ERP system has not evolved in sequence nor adapted to the required situation.

Our SAP Logistics Performance Health check is designed to help you identify areas of your system and business processes that currently meet the required standards per the original design, and areas that may need a little improvement, especially when aligned to OUR SAP best Practice standards, and emerging changes in the technology world.

All current business processes, Key user stories and data integration strategy will be reviewed, allowing for a comparison of the existing current processes against the required objectives, the results will then be detailed in a report stating what business processes are supported correctly within your SAP system, and those that need improvements to ensure your business is running on the most optimised platform.