SAP & ERP Business Alignment Answers for IT Leaders

SAP & ERP Implementation ROI, Business Transformation, and Customer Focused Results

Browsing Posts published in October, 2008

After you’ve done all the research, and gone to all the trouble to make your project a success, there are still four key areas that consistently cause trouble at go-live:   1.  SAP Security and Authorizations. 2.  Master Data. 3.  Business process changes, process gaps (missed processes and exceptions). 4.  SAP ABAP Custom Development.   [...]

2.  SAP Master Data.  Ideally your master data processing should begin early in the process.  Identification of legacy data sources, and even raw legacy data extracts should begin during the Blueprint phase.  Experienced implementation consultants should be able to ensure that the key data requirements or data settings are also captured.  It won’t be perfect, [...]

3.      ERP or SAP Process issues  Let me start with a caveat to this section.  No matter how good, thorough, experienced, or conscientious a consultant or a core team member is, there will always end up being a few process gaps, and an occasional completely missing process discovered at go-live.  Now that the caveat is [...]