PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION FLOW:

A company say Dr. Reddy Laboratories Ltd have decided to go

for ERP, they check which ERP Packages are available in the
market- their features, advantages, cost factors like Software
cost, implementation cost and Hardware costs and time
required to implement the package and which other companies
in the same industry have gone for that ERP.

In market we have SAP, ORACLE FINANCIALS, BAAN, JD

EDWARDS, PEOPLESOFT etc.

Once they finalize ERP package say SAP-they will decide which
consulting firm has to implement. We have consulting firms like
Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, and Siemens and in Hydearabad we
have ZENSAR (Oak Brook Technologies Ltd)(OBT), Intelli etc.
Here also they compare the cost involved to implement, their
experience in the industry, support after implementation,
locations to be implemented.

SAP package has to be purchased from SAP India Bangalore-

The cost of the package will be based on Number of Users and
not on Number of companies/locations. The present version to
be sold is ECC 6(ERP Central component). The present cost is
Rs. 1.25 lakh per user and the companies have to Annual
Maintenance Contract (AMC) 21% of the package cost.

Suppose DRL has decided to appoint Siemens to implement

SAP, there will be 2 teams and the team members will be based
on the modules to be implemented- Generally companies will go
in 1st phase FI/MM and SD modules.

FROM DRL FROM SIEMENS

Project Manager Project Manager

FI core team member FI consultant
MM core team member MM consultant
SD core team member SD consultant
IT core team member ABAP Programmers
Basis consultant
Core team members will be prepare As is process—What is the
existing process and what is required from SAP.

Based on As is process—Consultants will prepare to be process

Then consultants will prepare a GAP report—It consists of

requirements of company which are not there in SAP. The
consultant will analyze the gaps and decide for ABAP
programs/workarounds/User exits/write to SAP the issue.

The consultant will do customization based on client’s as is

process—

The company core team members will test the transactions

Once the company people satisfy, in the end the consultant will
prepare customization document

The company core team will prepare end user document

The consultants will give customization training to company

core team members

The company core team will give End user training

They will fix a go live date

The customization requests will be transported from

development client to production client

Data for gl masters uploading, vendor masters uploading,

customer masters uploading, material masters uploading, tax
codes uploading will be prepared.

Enter No. range intervals for the documents in the production

client.

Enter day to day data in production client

To maintain Help Desk for Users Support

Then go for Rollouts—activating the same customization in

different locations.
As per SAP specific definition, Rollout strategy normally include the
following
- Whether to implement SAP simultaneously (also known as big-
bang) in all the countries, or 
- Go live in sequence of phased manner
- Or to go for the combination of both (phased manner
implementation for some of the countries and big-bang for others).

5 PHASES-ASAP METHODOLOGY-ACCELERATED SAP

METHODOLOGY

BIGBANG IMPLEMENTATION: Implementation of all modules

In all places at a time

PHASED IMPLEMENTATION: IMPLEMENT SOME MODULES

NOW AND THE BALANCE AFTERWARDS
OR IMPLEMENT SAP IN SOME AREAS AND BALANCE
AFTERWARDS

PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE:

TAKE SR PEOPLE FROM COMPANY SIDE AS WELL AS
CONSULTING FIRM SIDE-THEY MEET AT REGULAR INTERVALS
AND CHECK WHETHER THE PROJECT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED
AS PER SCHEDULE-SOLVE ISSUES THAT ARISE BETWEEN
CORE TEAM MEMBERS AND CONSULTANTS.

OSS STANDS FOR ONLINE SUPPORT SERVICE-SAP GIVES OSS

USER ID AND PASSWORD TO DRL-TO SEND ISSUES TO SAP
BY THE COMPANY-AUTHORIZATION TO SEND ISSUES TO
DRL PROJECT MANAGER OR DRL BASIS CORE TEAM
MEMBER-
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