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SAP Success Factors for Vendor Selection – Responsibility Matrix 1
SAP Success Factors for Vendor Selection – Responsibility Matrix 1

SAP Success Factors for Vendor Selection – Responsibility Matrix 1

By Bill Wood|October 11th, 2010|

After a short look at the peer-reviewed academic literature, Anil Bhagwani did a brief case study on ten failed SAP implementations and ten successful SAP implementations. From these, he continued to distill SAP critical success factors. For more vendor selection background, please refer to another study: SAP Implementation Partner or Company Selection Criteria. Common SAP Critical Success Factors (CSF's) Identified for Successful ERP Implementations The study author's perspective and summary o [...]

SAP Technicians or Experts
SAP Technicians or Experts

SAP Technicians or Experts

By Bill Wood|September 13th, 2010|

They say a good magician never reveals their tricks. Well, I’m no magician, so I will give you some insight. Lagging indicators (those affected by process improvements, cost-based ROI and TCO methods, and current ERP mindsets) are reactive. Leading indicators (those which directly affect the competitive business landscape) are proactive. SAP and ERP technicians are reactive. They can make system settings, they can help you to make a small tweak here or there, but they are tactical and tend to b [...]

SAP Reimplementation for Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 2
SAP Reimplementation for Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 2

SAP Reimplementation for Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 2

By Bill Wood|September 7th, 2010|

A number of important considerations in an SAP reimplementation do not exist for a technical upgrade. As a result, the upfront planning and evaluation time will be more involved. For example you need to consider any organization structure changes. How will any new organization structure items map to old ones? Then you need to analyze how to handle old master data if the organization structure changes are so significant that they require a whole new master data paradigm. If you have done a lot o [...]

SAP Reimplementation For Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 1
SAP Reimplementation For Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 1

SAP Reimplementation For Little More Cost than a Technical Upgrade Part 1

By Bill Wood|August 30th, 2010|

I previously noted that I would follow up with a post on doing an SAP implementation for only marginally more than a technical upgrade (see Technical SAP Upgrade or SAP Reimplementation). In the process, you should keep a few assumptions and several considerations in mind. If an SAP reimplementation is done well, you can significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership. You should also keep in mind that getting closer to standard functionality in non-business critical areas (or what I like to r [...]

Technical SAP Upgrade or SAP Reimplementation
Technical SAP Upgrade or SAP Reimplementation

Technical SAP Upgrade or SAP Reimplementation

By Bill Wood|August 23rd, 2010|

SAP’s application landscape has the depth and breadth of functionality to handle 90% (and usually more) of nearly any business requirement. Regardless of this huge depth and breadth of functionality, many businesses still custom code and redesign the software too much (see e.g. SAP Implementation Focus, Software Engineering or Business Process Engineering?). If you are an SAP shop considering an upgrade, you may need to take a hard look at whether you should do a technical upgrade or a reimplem [...]

SAP Implementation Projects: Still Crazy After All These Years
SAP Implementation Projects: Still Crazy After All These Years

SAP Implementation Projects: Still Crazy After All These Years

By Michael Doane|August 16th, 2010|

Through the good graces of my long-time associate Jon Reed (www.jonerp.com), I recently discovered a blog that covers the life of an SAP project: SAP: Loathe It or Ignore It, You Can’t Like It http://sapmesideways.blogspot.com/.Shortly thereafter, De...