SAP Program Management
By choosing SAP you have established a competitive advantage with a highly reliable and scalable technology platform to support your business growth. When a company starts thinking about SAP implementation, the first thing that comes to anyones mind is to select a implementation partner that can meet the project timeline and within budget. You need a trusted advisor who can advise the program sponsor and other corporate executives throughout the life of your SAP project.
SAP Program Manager / Executive Project Advisor @ iii Technologies
iii Technologies has a team of well known SAP Program Managers as well as Executive Project Advisors which has helped several global SAP customers maximize their return of investment (ROI) and optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the SAP solution. In average our SAP Program Manager has over 10+ years of SAP implementation experience as a leader or project manager. Our program managers have been on at least two SAP implementation projects as either a program manager or an executive project advisor. Usually our customers engage us very early part of their SAP implementation. Typically our program manager engages with your executive team in scoping the SAP solution followed by management of project bids from selected SAP implementation partners. In the event that you invite iii Technologies to also participate as a systems integrator, our program advisors will provide an unbiased opinion to select the best systems integrator to suit your business needs and execute the project in time and budget.
Our SAP Program Management Service at a Glance
Our SAP Program Managers will provide leadership and expert advise related to all technology, process, methodology and resources needed for successful implementation of your SAP solution. Some key areas we provide leadership and guidance when engaged right from the early phases of the project include:
- SAP Software Evaluation & Scoping: After the company has initiated or made a decision to replace your legacy system with a new enterprise system, our program manager will work with all business stakeholders to define all the high level processes that are needed to support the future growth of the company. We will evaluate
Early planning phase for a new enterprise systems evaluation focus on identifying business needs to support future growth and evaluation of packages in SAP that would optimize business growth with rapid return of investment (ROI). Since majority of the companies have minimal to no experience with SAP software, high effective and accurate decisions can be made in these areas with a SAP program advisory guidance. Our SAP program advisors work with clients to evaluate enterprise wide business needs and recommend appropriate SAP packages, tools and solutions.
- Selection of SAP Systems Integrator: On many occasions companies select an SAP Systems Integrator SI (also known as SI or Vendor or SAP implemantation partner) based on the SI's reputation in the industry, lowest cost bid and/or skills and expertise demonstrated by pre-sales team. Although these are important factors, it turns out that this criteria mislead the customers by not looking at some other critical factors that should be considered in selection of a Systems Integrator. Some of these critical factors include SAP systems expertise in all modules selected by the customer, business expertise, evaluation of experience/skills of key leaders presented by SI, etc. Our program advisors work with your leadership to recommend and establish SAP systems integrator selection criteria that best aligns with your company goals.
- Selection of Well Qualified SI or Third Party Project Resources: New SAP customers have limited knowledge of SAP technology and hence it is a challenge to determine whether the resources presented to you by the Systems Integrator have appropriate level of knowledge and experience. Many customers like you may end up paying $200+ per hour for SAP resources, but in reality only 1 off 5 or so resources is senior level resource with others just shadowing this senior resource. In this example, you may be paying $1000+ per hour for set of resources when only one is productively contributing to the project. Our program and technology experts interview all SAP skilled resources before onboarding them into the program. We interview SI Program Manager, Functional leads, ABAP/BI/PI technology leads, functional analysts, technical developers and all other resources by using one of our established evaluation criteria.
- Project Changes or Restructuring to Deliver on Time, Budget and Quality: Ineffective resources or processes on a project are key factors impacting delivery of the program on time, budget and ensuring high quality results. Right from the start of your SAP project our program advisors evaulate each resource and implementation methodology and processes. We review resource effectiveness and change resources from Systems Integrator or other third party that are ineffective or may not be needed to match the required skills. We review work plans and work execution approaches in program management office (PMO), business teams, technical teams, OCM, etc and make necessary changes to the project.
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