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SAP Optimization Services
Our SAP Optimization services employ a structured approach which is comprised of four phases, each having its own specific results and deliverables.  The combination of these phased services assures a reduction in your maintenance costs by optimizing and reducing the amount of custom code in use.  Further, these services assure a reduction in the cost of your next SAP upgrade, whether that takes place tomorrow or two years from now.
Consulting Services Delivery

Most SAP implementations are intended to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of an organization’s processes, products and services.  It is safe to say that few, if any, ERP implementations come in on time, on budget and deliver all the promise that the vendor sold to management.  The result is an SAP system that costs more to implement and more to maintain than was originally planned.  A primary cause of costly SAP maintenance is the development of custom code in response to user requirements.  It is estimated that the management of unnecessary custom code can cost an organization well over $1,000,000 per year.

Description

We assess your production system(s) by analyzing your system s log files with our proprietary software.  The result is an assessment of the current state of your SAP system based on four key performance indicators:

  1. Cost
  2. Productivity
  3. Performance
  4. Quality

We provide comparative benchmarks of SAP performance against industry peers and best practices, as well as demonstrating opportunities for savings.  We provide a thorough, detailed assessment of your SAP code, and a detailed set of recommendations to increase productivity while producing ongoing cost savings.  The service includes:

  • Analysis of used standard SAP code mapped to business processes
  • Detailed analysis of unexploited standard code
  • Overview analysis of non-standard code
    • Identification of performance issues
    • Identification of quality issues
  • Detailed set of recommendations
  • Detailed implementation plan

This service delivers a series of reports with detailed findings, recommendations and implementation plans for up to six areas of SAP focus:

  • TCO Assessment:  Reduces total cost-of-ownership, operations costs, project time and risk
  • ROI Assessment:  Maximizes return-on-investment, improves productivity and performance, and optimizes business processes
  • Release Upgrade Assessment:  Optimizes upgrades system cost and productivity
  • Consolidation Assessment:  Evaluation of systems to be consolidated
  • Outsource Assessment:  Evaluation of systems to be evaluated
  • Compliance Assessment:  Board level compliance evaluation

We also provide ongoing post-optimization, quarterly KPI review and comparison against internal and external benchmarks to assure continued system optimization.  This ensures the clients will maintain the optimal levels of cost, productivity and quality of the SAP system(s) assuring continual user satisfaction and budget optimization.  This service positions your organization for the optimal implementation of all new releases.

Target Audience

CFO, CIO, CxO


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