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Staffing and contract industry veterans who have deep business software experience in SAP applications.
What sets us apart from other Staffing / Recruiting / Consulting companies?
Our consultants have **verifiable** SAP experience of at least 8 years, and nearly all of them have over 10 years. They have excellent communication skills and deep understanding of their primary module with its integration touch points for knowledge transfer.
Our company approach of early prototyping and several proofs of concept ensure that: knowledge is transferred; gaps are discovered and addressed early; and your needs and expectations are carefully addressed. Our goal is to EARN every customer’s business and we intend on doing that so, give us a call today and see if we can exceed your expectations.
We have access to a significant number of the most experienced and senior level SAP consultants anywhere. These are what SAP typically refers to as “Platinum” level consultants. Most of our consultants came from industry before becoming SAP software consultants so they understand the practical requirements of business. They don’t just have technical or theoretical knowledge like some of the other consulting firms. They’ve actually had to get their feet wet, roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty so they understand practical solutions to real business problems.
We provide SAP RFI and RFP preparation strategies to help ensure you are comparing “apples to apples” during vendor submissions, demonstrations and presentations. Our goal is to help you to avoid some of the common pitfalls that different vendors use to try to gain your business. We work through equalizing tactics and other options to ensure you get a true cost comparison between vendors to prevent deliberate underbids or vendors who do not have sufficient skills or qualifications. This approach includes:
For some of the insight on some of the approaches we use to find the best vendor please take a few minutes and review the following postings in our Four Part Series:
Achieve Breakthrough ERP, SAP, or IT Project Success: 1 of 4
Breakthrough Project Success: 2 of 4, IT Vendor Proposal RFP
Breakthrough Project Success: 3 of 4, Vendor Selection and Contracts
Breakthrough Project Success: Part 4 of 4, Last Low Risk Chance for Results
Sometimes a third-party appraisal is needed to find out why your project is showing signs that are keeping you up at night. We are long-term industry veterans with many full-cycle projects and have done both implementation and upgrade projects–, we know what it takes to be successful.
We provide professional reports with what we analyzed, the basis for our opinion, and then suggested corrective actions needed to address any gaps. If you feel as though your project is not where it should be, or that it is off track, we can provide you with the insight and experience to determine what you need to focus on success.
If your project is at risk we can help get it back on track and help position you for success.
Key program management in IT is our specialty, beyond SAP, we have the capabilities to handle complex integration and IT issues across a wide range of disciplines. We can handle all of the project activities necessary for success, including initial business and IT strategy, project preparation, blueprinting, project execution, preparation for live operations, to making it live and then ongoing support requirements.
Seasoned SAP and other ERP product Project management experience is provided to ensure that your project goes as smoothly as it can. We focus on delivering projects on-time and on-budget while maintaining a strategic business focus.
Our understanding and experience with SAP projects and SAP consulting service delivery is deep enough that we can offer high quality SAP program management consulting services. Whether it is creating value added templates, project measurement resources, monitoring tools, multi-project coordination, or the numerous dimensions of quality program management we can deliver high quality SAP consulting service results.
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I’ve learned many lessons over the years after participating in many ROI focused projects–, a few of them achieved great results, but unfortunately many more were mediocre. I’m going to begin a series of articles and “how – to’s” on achieving value and ROI from an SAP implementation.
For many years there has been a lot of literature, guidance, case studies, success stories and methods for using SAP to automate processes and reduce costs. Unfortunately there is little to help a company achieve revenue and profitability increases using SAP. This site explores ways of using SAP to improve revenue and profitability as well as achieving process efficiencies and cost reductions.
We have to get beyond TCO, or a pure cost focus and start looking at ROI, or what you actually expect SAP to help you do in your business. What actionable information or operational helps are you expecting from the system?
Reducing implementation costs, process costs, transactional costs, operational costs, or other cost-based ROI measures is an important part of the business case for implementing ERP systems like SAP. But it is only one side of the implementation coin. It seems to be the only side of the coin that most SAP implementations ever realize. The way to change this is by beginning your SAP project right from the beginning with a value-oriented and benefits-focused approach. With that as the starting point you can then incorporate that mindset into the project right from the beginning; you can develop project success criteria for your SAP implementation or upgrade that will drive those results, and transform your enterprise or organization.
There are plenty of companies and literature from vendors who promote TCO (total cost of ownership) models, and claim to be able to help you leverage your SAP implementation to realize a reduction in TCO. Rather than adding another voice to the “easy” area of finding ways to measure cost reductions in processes, operational efficiencies, and other cost-based measurements, it’s time to focus on using SAP for channeling organizational efforts into winning in the marketplace. Avoiding the focus on operational cost reductions, cost-based ROI or TCO does not mean they aren’t important, only that this is not new ground and not necessary for me to add my voice to the loud chorus singing today.
By focusing only on cost-based ROI measures businesses rarely realize the real promise and value of enterprise applications like SAP. The real strength of SAP is to transform the enterprise by providing new ways to look at, analyze, evaluate, and then strategize in the marketplace. Without your SAP project focusing heavily on the value-based business drivers for the SAP project justification, it will become little more than another IT system. Sadly over the years I’ve seen too many SAP implementations become little more than another IT transaction system.
Where do you start? Change your thinking!
Focus on how to perform a successful SAP value-based project, with real ROI value realization, no matter what type of partner or implementation method you choose. To do this your IT and SAP project thinking has to change. And the change in thinking, or the paradigm shift, requires the implementation mindset to focus on how to use SAP technology to propel your company forward. To succeed in this area you must stop looking at SAP or IT as just a tool to enable process automation or process efficiency. SAP and all technology must become a lever for change, with the application being the vehicle to help manage that change.
Your change in thinking about SAP or any other large IT project should begin by asking yourself what do you want the system to enable you to do?
What actionable information or automation should it provide?
What marketplace competitive pressures should it provide you the data to address?
What data is needed to address those pressures?
How will process automation or actionable reporting help to enhance your marketplace value proposition?
SAP’s value proposition lies in its ability to integrate the enterprise with a common set of data which becomes the critical information for strategic business management. By designing SAP right from the beginning to support the key information you need to strategically analyze your business you will be well on your way to realizing the value of an SAP implementation.