SAP Customer Responsibility for SAP Project Success

By |April 23rd, 2012|

Some time ago, I put together a synthesis of SAP success criteria based on academic literature and my own personal experience. The table below is part of the list of SAP Success Factors for Vender Selection – Responsibility Matrix. For a more detailed explanation of each of the vendor-related items, see the posts listed in the Series on SAP ERP Project Success Factors. In the prior series, we went through SAP success factors with shared responsibilities between the company adopting the SAP appl [...]

Series on SAP ERP Project Success Factors

By |December 19th, 2011|

This is a compiled sets of posts related to SAP project success criteria ================== The Top 5 ERP Success Factors by Project Stage from 22 Critical Success Factors https://www.iitrun.com/the-top-5-erp-success-factors-by-project-stage-from-22-critical-success-factors SAP Implementation Partner or Company Selection Criteria https://www.iitrun.com/sap-implementation-partner-or-company-selection-criteria SAP Success Factors for Vendor Selection – Responsibility Matrix 1 https://www.iitrun.co [...]

5 More Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

By |November 21st, 2011|

Of the previous five tips I reviewed last week, the first three are all related to project momentum. Let's look at a key to maintaining that momentum while also reducing the impediments on your SAP project. One SAP critical success factor for maintaining project momentum requires SAP project management that is fully integrated in the day-to-day project activities. This hands-on approach to project management is one of the SAP best practices for overall project success. The tools, resources, and [...]

5 Leadership Tips for Successful SAP Project Management

By |November 14th, 2011|

All too often, I see SAP Project Management done improperly. As I have often said, I do not generally fault customers or clients who hire outside help for SAP project management. If they believed they had the answers, they wouldn't bother with contractors for guidance. Too often, I see SAP project management treated as project administration without much leadership. Just about anyone can be a checklist administrator. What is lacking from many SAP projects is the project management leadership to [...]

SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI

By |August 8th, 2011|

The previous post took a hard look at the types of consulting services you need for a high-speed SAP project (see SAP Consultants for High Speed SAP Projects). Consultants who work on SAP projects in the small- and mid-sized business space develop excellent breadth of SAP experience across an entire area. This week, we will look at the other side of that coin: consultant skills from large, long-term type SAP projects and what their experience provides. Consultants on the larger, longer-term SAP [...]

Overcome SAP-ERP System Integrator Sales Tactics 7

By |June 20th, 2011|

As we get close to wrapping up this series, we will take a short look at ERP and business software licensing. Fortunately, you have a number of strategies available to negotiate your licenses. One thing to keep in mind here is that there are two revenue streams for the software provider. The first is the license sale, and the second is the maintenance agreement. ERP – SAP – Business Software Licensing Negotiations One negotiating tip I learned a long time ago is to always ask for more than you [...]