Get SAP Projects Green, Keep SAP Projects Green
Adviridem understands SAP Implementations. Drawing on 30 years of experience of complex and transformational SAP Programme Delivery across a wide range of sectors and SAP products from the perspective of both the client and the Systems Integrator.
We have experience in the full range of SAP software, including SAP S/4HANA Private and Public Cloud, ECC, SuccessFactors, Digital Manufacturing Cloud, Concur, BTP and Analytics platforms.
We have implemented and supported global Template projects for large enterprises, to single country Cloud solutions for SME’s, as well as Complex S/4HANA Conversion projects. We’ve worked with complex partner ecosystems, with multiple Implementation and Support partner ecosystems, as well as internal IT departments.
SAP Projects Represent a huge investment and cost for organisations implementing them. It’s not an IT project; it’s a massive Business Transformation that needs to be led and owned by the business.
Companies need expert support to implement successfully and will reach out to specialised Implementation Partners and System Integrators (SI’s) to do so, but the reality is that you still need significant investment of time and energy of people within the actual business itself to make this transformation a success. A hard fact we have often seen is that these are frequently the same people who are the beating heart of the business, and whose time to manage day to day activities is a key part of the organisations’ success and day to day survival.
Things Are Going Great,
Right Until They Aren’t…
SAP projects and programmes are frequently over-optimistic about the level of input the business needs to provide, leaving their clients in the situation of having to trust the delivery a solution out of the box on the basis of a single statement of work contract.
All too often the project rapidly becomes a cost iceberg, whose true size is hidden beneath the surface until they are too far in to back out.
The consequences are always the same:
Budget overruns
Delays
A solution the business either does not understand or is not right for them
A lack of benefit realisation and ROI.
In parallel the business itself starts to suffer as the drain on their brightest &best starts to bite the business-as-usual activities.
An analysis of data from a number of research sources indicates that even though the root cause of SAP project failure have been well documented over the five decades the product has been available, the same common issues continue to occur today:
Unclear scope, shifting objectives & scope creep
Weak executive sponsorship & governance
Poor change management & user adoption
Unrealistic timelines & under resourced projects
Poor partner/vendor management & contract design
Inadequate data migration & master data quality
Insufficient testing (integration, performance, cutover)
Over customisation & technical debt
Inadequate post go live support & stabilisation.
Adviridem Can Help…
