Blog of SAP Business Intelligence Insights & Information - Lonnie Ayers, CEO and SAP Certified Consultant

Have you ever wondered if there is an ideal time to do your SAP BW implementation?  Most customers are faced with this difficult choice and get conflicting advice.  Our recommendation is that, like all good consultants tell you, is it depends on your situation, specifically where you are at in your SAP implementation or perhaps even if you are doing a SAP ECC implementation at all. 

Ever wonder what a Project Manager actually does?  As a Senior Project Manager (and PMP), who has managed projects for SAP, i2, Oracle, and many military projects as well, I have to say, the company (i2) that was actually clearest about what they expected a Project Manager to deliver was profit-for i2.  Let me repeat that, the clearly defined top level goal of a project manager is to deliver the project profitably.

After a long, hard, evaluation process, you have finally decided on SAP as your new ERP system and want to avoid SAP Implementation mistakes.  You’re in luck!  The implementation of SAP has been refined through more than 100,000 customer implementations and is incorporated in the SAP Implementation methodology known as SAP ASAP.  There are, in fact, various flavors of the SAP ASAP implementation methodology.  The flavor you will use depends on several factors:

In every SAP implementation, almost without exception, the need will arise for one or more developments, popularly known as FRICE-W (Forms, Reports, Interface, Conversions and Enhancements and Workflows).  In the current SAP ASAP methodology, these are normally identified during the blueprint phase, but developed during the Realization phase