| Choosing an ERP for your organization is one of the most daunting tasks for your IT team as well as Management. Some common doubts in the mind of an organization’s team w.r.t. SAP Implementation pertain to aspects like organization’s preparedness, solution evaluation & fitment, ROI on costs involved, user licensing, project success responsibility etc.
The best way to evaluate your organization’s capabilities to go for SAP is to conduct the “SAP Preparedness Study” – also called the Pre-Implementation Study. This study, conducted by PiL experts, can be done before or after taking a decision to implement SAP and comprises following phases:
In-depth study of the client’s processes PiL experts spend about 7 – 15 days (depending on the organization’s size) and gain in-depth knowledge of client’s business processes
Study of business process mapping in existing legacy IT systems
PiL experts then study how the business process is being catered to by the existing IT systems. They also evaluate pain areas and other scope for improvement that existing systems are not able to take care of
Aligning Business Processes & Pain Areas with SAP's Solution capabilities
The PiL team then aligns the client's business process and respective pain areas with SAP's capabilities to determine how SAP can take care of the client's requirements.
Evaluating scale-up pre-requisites PiL team will also identify enhancement in capabilities needed to map the respective business process from legacy system to SAP, including execution deliverables like team structure, change management aspects etc.
Present all facts, analysis & findings to Management for Review
Joint presentation is conducted between the organization's management and PiL team to discuss the deliverables of the study.
Some of the key deliverables of the Pre-Implementation Study are as follows:
- Business Case Development to justify SAP Implementation from a Strategic, Operational, Technical & Financial perspective
- Business alignment with SAP:
- Comprehensive model to seamlessly integrate all departments of the organization
- Identification of key metrics to measure business process improvements before and after SAP Implementation
- Medium & long term strategy of SAP Implementation
- Technical alignment with business areas of improvements:
- Integration requirement of SAP & existing systems
- Timeline of SAP Implementation
- Optimum number of SAP licenses required
- Risk Assessment
- Adoption of Best Practices in SAP Implementation
- Methods of Data Integrity during implementations
- Assured long term performance alignment with business expectations through detailed dimensions of reporting & usability
- Skill set development and Institutional arrangement required to run, operate and maintain the SAP installation
- Organizational scope of work to decide extent of implementation
- Cost estimate of the entire project
- Other customer specific query resolution
PiL ’s end objective is to clarify all client doubts w.r.t. SAP implementation in that organization and advise the same on how to gear up for the implementation in case the client has made up his mind |
