Roles in Project preparation phase ?

[Former Member]

hii

Some body explain me on their real time exeperiance of 1st phase implementation.??

What will be the major roles and reponsibilities of MM consultant in 1st and second phase ???

How we should do the AS-IS study in client place ????

Some body explain me in depth and detailed of their own experiance in implementation project.

And additionally ,as MM consultant where we shlould not be lack of knowledge for any implementationss??

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

SAP Implementation Phases

Introduction

SAP Project Implementation is one of the components of Project Management and required a great degree of project related Knowledge such as Project Management, Change Management, Risk Analysis and Review Programs.

Accelerated SAP (ASAP) is not only a SAP implementation solution but it also supports a comprehensive project plan. Like Project Management, ASAP Methodology also integrates several components and comprises of MS Project templates providing complete work breakdown structures and resource assignments.

SAP Implementation Phases

Project Preparation Phase u2013 As per Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology it is the First Phase of SAP Implementation. During this phase, following components are discussed and documented:

■Initial Project Planning

■Project Procedures

■Project Team Members & their Training

■Project Kickoff

■Technical Requirements

■Quality Check

Business Blueprint Phase - In this phase, a detailed study of business processes and business requirements are undertaken by the Project Team members. This is the phase where Project Team Members interact with respective Core Team Members or Process Owners. The entire requirements gathered during this phase are documented as Business Blueprint. During this phase, following components are discussed and documented:

■Project Management

■Organizational Change Management

■Training

■Develop System Environment

■Organizational Structure Definition

■Business Process Analysis

■Business Process Definition

■Quality Check

Regards,

pherasath

[Former Member]

In project preparation phase, all the details of the projects are set, who will be the project manager from implementors side and from client side, then the whole team is selected of both sides, some times there are interviews of consultants as well from the client, where client desides which consultants they want for there implementation.

Then usually sign up of the project is done and sometimes presentation on every module is given as well if sign up and project start has big difference in dates.

Then in blueprint phase, for AS-IS, you MM consultant and powerusers from client sit down and you jott down all the current settings of the client, here its decides and researched how there current system is configured, and what necessary settings are required for SAP i.e. how many plants, how many purchase organisations,groups, how many material groups, what number ranges master record will follow, how many document types for PR,PO,contract, which additional processes are required i.e. Framework order, source lists, which type of mrp, subcontract, consigment process etc.

Once you get all the data in AS-IS, you create blueprint based on this information which will contain every info, i.e. how many plants will be created, what numbers, how many storage locations with names and numbers for each plant, how many purchase organisation with details, purchase groups, document types of prs, pos, with number ranges, release strategy, and total process flow in this documentation and what can and what cant be configured in SAP, thus the TO BE stage. Here client views your document and if there are any reservations they are pointed out, if any deletion addition is needed to the document they are notified to the consultants, necessary changes are made to the blueprint and this up/down in changes keeps on going, until the blueprint is signed.

Same above described process happens for all other modules as well, and once all module blueprints are signed, then begins the realization phase. Usually the blueprint phase in 6 months implementation last for 2 months.

Edited by: Afshad Irani on Aug 30, 2010 3:55 PM

[Former Member]

hii

Thanks

And what of documentation will be done in 1st and 2 nd phases???

like word or ppt ...etc

And which kind document used for sign of BBP??

In a middle scale industry how many months will it take for implementation.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

Go Live and Support Phase u2013 This is phase where all configurations/customizations are transported to live production operation and business starts all its activities in the SAP R/3.

During this phase, all the problems/issues related to hardware, network, operating system, database, training, and application system are addressed by the project team members and they help the end users in achieving their day to day task/assignments. This phase is further divided as:

■Application Production Support and Maintenance

■Project Implementation End

Continuous Improvement Phase u2013 Towards continuous improvement and to overcome the organizational, business & technology changes the followings are covered under this phase:

■Post go-Live Support

■Improve System performance

Hope this will help you to know the Process.

Regards,

pherasath

[Former Member]

Hi,

Realization Phase - In this phase, all the business and process requirements are implemented as documented in Business Blueprint. SAP R/3 system is configured step by step in two work packages, Baseline and Final configuration. How these configurations will be done and how it will be tested.

■Baseline Configuration and Confirmation

■System Management

■Final Configuration and Confirmation

■Development of external Programs & Interfaces

■Unit Testing & Documentation

■Final Integration Test

■Business Scenarios & Process Documentation

■End User Training & Documentation

■Quality Check

Final Preparation Phase - During this phase, following activities are discussed, completed and documented, successful completion of these activities leads to transition of all configurations settings to live R/3 System

■System Management

■Stress & Volume Tests

■Cutover Strategies & Plans

■End User Training

■Quality Check

Regards,

pherasath