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Imagine having a independent leader and executive in your PMO who can lead your company through the entire implementation life cycle of your SAP project. One individual who can keep a check on your systems integrator and work directly with the company executives to address all SAP program challenges and risks without interference of your corporate culture. If you think this role would an ideal fit to your project then you have reached the right place. With our SAP Advisory Services we engage a dedicated Project Advisor on your project to manage your project risks and provide independent advice to your entire team. With an extensive SAP project management and delivery expertise SAP Project Advisor provides a comprehensive oversight to your project in proactively avoiding and managing challenges which could turn into major implementation issues.
This role works closely with the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Vice President of IT and steering committee of large enterprises to provide end-to-end oversight to the project while overseeing all aspects of program management and execution. This role complements your existing SAP Project Leadership and you need not make any changes to your current SAP project leadership. We will work with the Systems Integrator as well as SAP America [as Software Vendor] in ensuring the success of your project.
Our SAP Advisory Service is unlike any other service from major SAP systems integrator because each of our SAP Project Advisor has in-depth SAP implementation experience in project management, execution, technical implementation and overall program governance. Typically you see SAP project and program management leaders who have expertise in project management and governance. You will be surprised with the level of expertise of our SAP Project Advisor in all project workstreams including SAP functional, technical architecture, ABAP, BI, PI, BASIS and Solution Manager. Our expertise in all SAP implementation work streams along with program management and execution is the incredible wealth we bring to your project which no other SI or management consulting firm can offer.
Having a well qualified SAP Project Advisor could tremendously benefit your SAP implementation to ensure that it gets back on track in a quick and effective manner to meet your project timeline and goals. We recommend that you should consider addition of a SAP Project Advisor to your project leadership in the following situations.
- Your project is running behind schedule or exceeding budget in excess of 15%.
- Your systems integrator is continuosly missing project milestones or modifying the list of deliverables due at each milestones there by puting the project at risk.
- Your project scope is frequently adjusted to meet budget and timeline.
- You believe that your SAP systems integrator leadership or implementation team is under-qualified and lacks a industry specific experience.
- Your project team feels that solution designed and built by the SI may impose significant risks to your business upon go-live. This may arise if the quality of solution is poor or integrated system may not work as per design.
- You have a fixed fee implementation and need thorough check of deliverables produced by your SAP systems integrator.
- Your are about to start a new SAP project and would like to proactively use SAP implementation best practices to reduce the risks of failure.
SAP Trusted Advisor Engagement Model
SAP Trusted Advisor is one dedicated executive leader on your SAP program working directly with the CIO or the executive project sponsor and your steering committee. Responsibilities at a macro level is to manage the execution and delivery of your SAP program while reducing risks associated with budget overrun, slipping milestones, poor technical systems implementation and further maximizing your retun on investment in SAP.
In general, activities of this role may vary with each SAP customer depending on the time at which you decide to engage with a project advisor. However, most of the tasks are generated on-the-fly to meet the demand and overcome any challenges on a specific SAP project. Some of the key tasks that an SAP Project Advisor from our company would primarily focus are outlined below. CIO and executive leadership may have some specific additional aspects that would want this role to address in addition to the responsibilities mentioned below.
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